Question

“So teach him to close the door”, my daughter Emma responded after listening to me 36  , again, about the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January   37  air．

Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really   38   thing to do．But then she took it a step   39  ．“Come on, Kolby”, she said, grabbing some treats（犒劳物） and   40  him in front of the open door．“Touch．” And “touch” he did, which moved the door to a   41  position．She  42  him with a treat, smiled, looked at me, and said “see!” And I saw and became   43  ．Over the last few days I have been with Kolby．Each time he comes in I bring him back to the  44  door and ask him to close．There have been   45  in the beginning, but lately more and more successes．

However, there remains much work to be done．I have to get him to follow my hand signal again and again  46  he will close the door from a distance．But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the focus , the   47   will be completed, and, with the way things are   48  , completed quickly．

What a  49  treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in the  50  I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby．

A wish is just a wish until you decide to take  51 ．Once you   52  the belief that it is “too hard”, then it remains “too hard ” and out of  53 ．Once you want to accomplish a goal, and  54  that it is “easy”, then it becomes “easy” to do what needs to be done．Just  55   doing it．

1.	A．complain B．scream C．worry D．scare

2.	A．thin B．fresh C．dirty D．cold

3.	A．interesting B．funny C．tough D．possible

4.	A．again B．further C．deeper D．backward

5.	A．pushing B．catching C．driving D．positioning

6.	A．stopped B．fixed C．closed D．checked

7.	A．rewarded B．provided C．offered D．thanked

8.	A．moved B．convinced C．concerned D．puzzled

9.	A．open B．closed C．broken D．perfect

10.	A．pleasures B．experiments C．failures D．pauses

11.	A．in case B．even if C．as if D．so that

12.	A．interest B．task C．profit D．harmony

13.	A．changing B．reacting C．progressing D．happening

14.	A．wonderful B．small C．different D．simple

15.	A．knowledge B．skills C．lessons D．experience

16.	A．patience B．part C．delight D．action

17.	A．hold on to B．pay attention to C．come up with D．live up to

18.	A．date B．touch C．reach D．power

19.	A．prove B．decide C．approve D．realize

20.	A．imagine B．start C．keep D．enjoy

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.B

5.D

6.C

7.A

8.B

9.A

10.C

11.D

12.B

13.C

14.A

15.C

16.D

17.A

18.C

19.B

20.B

【解析】略