Question

  Like most people,I was brought up to look upon life as a process of get?ting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1      ： giving away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2        money.

This is how I 3        with giving away. If an idea for improving the win?dow display of a neighbourhood store 4        to me,I step in and make the sug?gestion to the 5      . If an accident takes place,the 6        of which I think the local police could use,I 7        him up and tell him about it,though I am not in 8        here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9        get?ting something back,though the 10        often comes in an unexpected form.

  One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 11        letter to my home,though it was 12        to me at my office. I wrote the post?master a note of 13      More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was 14      . I was told at the window that there were 15        boxes left,and that my name would have to go on a long 16        list. As I was about to 17     ,the postmaster appeared in the 18      . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 19        we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 20        but complaints (投訴) .”

1. A. decision   B. research   C. speech   D. discovery

2. A. earn   B. lack   C. spend   D. steal

3. A. experienced   B. connected   C. combined   D. agreed

4. A. happens   B. flashes   C. sticks   D. leads

5. A. postmaster   B. headmaster   C. storekeeper   D. policeman

6. A. story   B. damage   C. challenge   D. material

7. A. call   B. hold   C. break   D. pick

8. A. need   B. trouble   C. common   D. charge

9. A. within   B. without   C. for   D. before 

10. A. process   B. goal   C. return   D. concern 

11.A. curious   B. immediate   C. special   D. heavy 

12. A. realized   B. addressed   C. forgotten   D. brought 

13.A. invitation   B. apology   C. instruction   D. appreciation 

14.A. dealing   B. providing   C. operating   D. starting 

15.A. enough   B. some   C. no   D. more 

16.A. admitting   B. relating   C. examining   D. waiting 

17. A. leave   B. shout   C. guess   D. conduct 

18.A. window   B. doorway   C. library   D. yard 

19.  A. in case   B. now that   C. even if   D. as if 

20.A. anything   B. everything   C. nothing   D. something

Answer 1

1. D像很多人一樣，"我"生來就認(rèn)為生活就是獲得，直到快四十歲的時(shí)候才發(fā)現(xiàn)，饋贈(zèng)也會(huì)使得生活如此精彩。故選D.

2. B

3. A下文列舉的事例都是作者生活中所經(jīng)歷的事情。

4. B本句主語為an idea ,主意在某人腦海中閃現(xiàn)用flash。happen to sb發(fā)生在某人身上。

stick to堅(jiān)持;lead to 導(dǎo)致。

5. C根據(jù)前文提到的"neighbourhood store"可知答案。

6. A story故事，事情。出現(xiàn)事故，警察應(yīng)了解事情的經(jīng)過和真相。damage破壞;challenge挑戰(zhàn);material物質(zhì)，材料。

7. A根據(jù)后文的"...tell him about it…"可知作者是打電話告訴警察事情的經(jīng)過。

8. D作者雖然不負(fù)責(zé)這里的事情，但他卻主動(dòng)幫助警察了解事故的經(jīng)過。

9. B上文列舉的事例都表明作者想主動(dòng)幫助別人而不希望得到什么。 

10. C return回報(bào)。根據(jù)轉(zhuǎn)折連詞though和下文所列舉的事例表明，幫助別人有時(shí)候在不經(jīng)意時(shí)也會(huì)得到回報(bào)。 

11. C根據(jù)下文中postmaster所說的話可知答案。 

12. B address此處為動(dòng)詞，意為"注明……的地址"。信上標(biāo)明收信人的地址是"我"辦公室的地址，但郵遞員卻把它送到了"我"的家里。 

13. D appreciation感謝，感激。郵遞員把本來該送到辦公室的信送到家里，人們通常只會(huì)責(zé)備他們，而作者卻與此相反，非但沒有責(zé)備，而是寫了一封表揚(yáng)信，他也因此得到了回報(bào)。 

14. D本句為定語從句，橫線上所缺動(dòng)詞的賓語為new business deal為不及物動(dòng)詞，故排除。此處表示"作者開辦了一項(xiàng)新的業(yè)務(wù)"。故選D.

15. C結(jié)合上下文可知，郵局里已沒有剩余的郵箱。 

16. D郵局里沒有剩余的郵箱，要想安裝郵箱，只能等到有的時(shí)候。 

17. A作者被告知已沒有郵箱，只好離開。 

18. B作者正要離開，郵遞員在門口攔住了他。 

19. C在這個(gè)郵局里，你應(yīng)該得到一個(gè)郵箱，即便是"我們" 給你做一個(gè)。even if即使;in case以防;now that既然，因?yàn)?as if好像。

20. C本題考查not— but…結(jié)構(gòu)，意為"不是……而是