I once did a year of voluntary service in a residential home for people with learning disabilities. It was set in an English village deep in the countryside, quite different from my home in Sweden. One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a little unhappy, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home who had financial difficulties and maybe it was impossible for her to complete her university courses.
So this friend of mine had sent all her money to Tanzania to support her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat and no money to go anywhere outside the village.
I was so touched and I felt I had to do something. So, during my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into a shop. I didn’t have much money left myself but I thought I'd buy her an extra box of chocolate we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman（also a volunteer）working in the shop and eventually told her about my friend.
The woman looked at me, amazed. “Does she eat pasta?” she asked. “Yes,” I replied. She immediately started loading a bag with pasta, cookies, and other things until the bag was full. “Give her this for me. It’s my treat!’’ I couldn’t believe it but accepted with happiness. As I left the shop to go home with my unexpected bag of food, I asked the woman her name. “Just Gloria,” she said.
Imagine my friend’s face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table and fetched her from her room to see! I had never seen her so happy! A few weeks later she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her in person.
These two extraordinary women really showed me what true kindness and compassion（同情）are, and the impression will stay with me for the rest of my life!
1.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to .
A. the shop
B. the writer's home
C. the residential home
D. a year of voluntary service
2.Why did the girl from Tanzania seem a little unhappy?
A. Because she had to stop her voluntary work.
B. Because she had no money to buy food or other things.
C. Because she had spent all her money on food and clothes.
D. Because her friend in Tanzania maybe had to quit school for lack of money.
3.Why did the writer help the girl from Tanzania?
A. Because the writer was a volunteer.
B. Because they lived in the same room.
C. Because the writer was moved by her kind act.
D. Because the writer didn’t wish she went hungry.
4.From the text, we know that .
A. the writer was from England
B. the writer was a university student from Tanzania
C. Gloria was from Sweden and was very kind to the writer
D. the writer volunteered to help people with learning disabilities
Last Friday my brother and I were driving home and had a fun conversation. So absorbed in our talk, my brother took a wrong turn.
Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a 31 , and we had no way to turn 32 . __33 my brother paid the bridge fee and drove on. He was greatly 34 by his mistake and the needless 35 of $4.
We eventually reached an exit, and as we took it, my brother noticed a young fellow 36 over to the side. He came out of his car and tried to 37 someone. I was busy trying to 38 which way we would go next, but my brother stopped and asked the guy if he needed any 39 And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a tool to get it off.
My brother gave him a wrench（扳手）, and then helped him 40 the flat. The young man said that this had been a 41 week for him: earlier he had gotten into a minor car 42 , and now this tire was flat on his way home from work. But he called us “a breath of fresh air’’ and kept 43 us because he really would have been 44 if we hadn’t come along.
After we had finished the job, he thanked us again and pulled out $20 to give us. “No,” my brother said. “We were never 45 to even get on that bridge. We took a wrong turn. But now we know 46 we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into a（n） 47 to serve.”
What I loved most was 48 my brother throughout this process. He was able to turn his mistake into 49 energy to help others even in a negative situation, which could only come from a calm mind and an open 50 .
1.A. bridge B. freeway C. wall D. river
2.A. away B. down C. over D. back
3.A. Amazedly B. Worriedly C. Unwillingly D. Happily
4.A. attacked B. annoyed C. survived D. suspected
5.A. charge B. price C. value D. waste
6.A. left B. moved C. pushed D. pulled
7.A. find B. complain C. phone D. scold
8.A. put forward B. figure out C. get across D. set aside
9.A. advice B. help C. money D. oil
10.A. change B. check C. repair D. carry
11.A. pleasant B. terrible C. memorable D. busy
12.A. accident B. debate C. sale D. show
13.A. encouraging B. teaching C. thanking D. troubling
14.A. damaged B. defeated C. neglected D. stuck
15.A. allowed B. forced C. supposed D. welcomed
16.A. that B. what C. how D. why
17.A. business B. failure C. opportunity D. success
18.A. watching B. helping C. asking D. thanking
19.A. usual B. natural C. positive D. special
20.A. head B. heart C. stage D. view
—Excuse me, but could you please tell me the way to the gas station around here?
—Sorry. There isn’t gas station nearby, I'm afraid.
A. one B. 不填 C. the D. a
Space exploration began in the 1960s, and since then about five hundred people into space.
A. have traveled B. traveled C. had traveled D. are traveling
Not until the man i，n black took off his dark glasses that he was the famous film star.
A. did I realize B. I realized C. was I realized D. I have realized
—Do you think he can get the first prize for jumping?
—Impossible now. He to do so, but he has just hurt his leg.
A. has expected B. is expected C. would expect D. was expected
