He almost didn’t see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front her Mercedes and got out.
Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt.
He said, “I am here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.”
Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.
As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was just passing through. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid.
Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened, had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were many people who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.
He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, “And think of me.”
He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.
1.This story most probably took place_______.
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A．in a garage |
B．on a highway |
C．in a busy street |
D．near a gas station |
2.When the man approached the old lady, the first thing he did was to______.
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A．ask what was wrong with her car |
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B．get the old lady out of her car |
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C．change her tire as soon as possible |
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D．make her know he wanted to help her |
3.The underlined part in Paragraph 6 suggests that________.
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A．the old lady had got ready to pay the man |
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B．the old lady was grateful to the man |
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C．the man had a lot of difficulty changing the tire |
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D．the man didn’t stop changing the tire |
4.Which of the following words can best describe the man?
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A．Warm-hearted and sensitive. |
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B．Careful and serious. |
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C．Thoughtful and helpful. |
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D．Generous and open-minded. |
5.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______________.
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A．the man was happy after helping the old lady |
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B．the man received a lot of money from the old lady |
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C．the man made the old lady feel cold and depressed |
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D．the man felt extremely frustrated all the way home |
About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman boarded and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I ___41____ her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her ____42____. I teased her by asking if she had a ___43___ for the bear. She laughed and said no.
About halfway through the flight she ___44____ over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (进行康复治疗). She ___45___ to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That ___46____ had led her down a dark ____47____ to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story. I was ____48____ at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to ____49___ it. At the end of the flight, she ___50____ me for listening to her.
A few years later, I got a ___51____ in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been years since we met on that plane. It is ___52____ how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had ____53____ to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have ____54___ that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get ___55___.
When I saw her, she was ____56____ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little ___57___ we had had turned her life around. She had boarded the plane ___58___ anything would work in her life, and my affirmation (肯定) of her as a person and of her ___59___ had given her the last bit of ___60___ she needed to work through her problems.
The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
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— I need to advertise for a second-hand mountain bike.
— _______？David just plans to sell his present one.
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B．Why not |
C．So what |
D．What for |
According to a report, cigarette smoking____ in all indoor public places in China already.
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A．will ban |
B．has banned |
C．will be banned |
D．has been banned |
—Don’t forget to go to the football match tomorrow.
—I ________.
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B．won’t |
C．shouldn’t |
D．mustn’t |
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