The sun was just coming up when I headed out to work last May at 6 a.m. Not quite dark but dark enough to need my headlights. I turned onto one of the lonely rural country roads.
Maybe it was because I was listening to the radio, maybe it was because I was already thinking about some projects at work, that I didn’t spot the dark object on the road until I was too late. I ran over it and felt the back left tire pull, and then sink. I stopped and got out of the car.
No mystery here---- my back left tyre was cut like a loaf of bread. Back 50 yards was a piece of sharp iron I had run over. I had never changed a tyre. I looked up the road. Not a car in either direction. The nearest service station was miles away. I threw up my hands. Then I remembered---- my cell phone! I powered it up before realizing, I didn’t know who to call.
Wouldn’t you know it, I spotted a car coming from the opposite direction. The driver slowed as he approached. I guessed he could see I was in trouble. He stopped his car, got out and immediately saw the trouble. “Madam, would you like me to change that tyre for you?” he asked. The man couldn’t have been more friendly. I was frightened out there and he put me completely at ease. “There,” he said, after putting on the spare, “you are all set to go.”
“Good thing for me that you were driving this way,” I told him, as I climbed back into my car.
“Funny you should say that,” he said. “Just like you, I was heading to work, but my job is in the opposite direction. I made a wrong turn at some point. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
1.The writer didn’t notice the object on the road because ______.
A. it was rather dark then B. she didn’t use her headlights
C. there was much traffic D. she was careless when driving
2.From Paragraph 4 we learn that______.
A. the writer felt quite anxious
B. no one would like to help the writer
C. the writer was a new driver
D. the cell phone should be powered up
3.What did the man do when he saw the writer?
A. He stopped and laughed at her.
B. He walked over to frighten her.
C. He helped her without hesitation.
D. He drove away in the opposite direction.
4.The end of the story tells us that the man ______.
A. went a wrong way B. felt the writer funny
C. didn’t know what he was doing D. come specially to help the writer
Recently, we went on a vacation for a week that involved visiting four different ports in the sunny and warm climate of the Caribbean. There were of laughter, fun and great food. It’s a thing when you go away that each day of the vacation also to the end and a return to work.
It was twelve years since we went on a vacation, so this vacation was viewed with of a great break away from my daily routine. And we weren’t .
But there was something very different about this vacation compared to those when we worked in a corporative environment. The main was that when we returned, when the vacation was rapidly drawing to a close, we didn’t have the same feeling of stress, anxiety and fear.
In this recent vacation, it wasn’t that we enjoyed the various fun and new activities, the break away from routine, the pleasure of touring different countries and cultures, the to do what we wanted when we wanted or the leisurely of each day that was significant. What was significant was that we didn’t fear the last day of vacation. You see, we know that we were what we love to do not what we had to do.
The feelings experienced in the last couple of days of vacation were viewed with the same joy as the very first days. In the previous times, the last days of vacation were terrible. We experience an increasing of stress we knew that a return to our field of employment was “work” and not that we loved and thoroughly enjoyed.
The is this: If you do what you love, it doesn’t matter that a vacation has to end. If you love what you do you will not yourself wishing for even a few more days of vacation, or wishing that you could enjoying this vacation for much, much longer. A love of what you do you back like a magnet.
1.A. moments B. possibilities C. situations D. ways
2.A. discouraging B. bitter C. wonderful D. funny
3.A. come up B. count down C. give out D. die away
4.A. expectation B. attempt C. opinion D. demand
5.A. satisfied B. tired C. disappointed D. optimistic
6.A. advantage B. problem C. difference D. drawback
7.A. approaching B. relieving C. bearing D. overcoming
8.A. necessarily B. thoroughly C. relaxingly D. smoothly
9.A. opportunity B. desire C. possibility D. right
10.A. pattern B. pace C. lifestyle D. atmosphere
11.A. yet B. still C. also D. even
12.A. returning to B. submitting to C. turning to D. heading for
13.A. number B. knowledge C. sense D. awareness
14.A. although B. and C. because D. if
15.A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something
16.A. lesson B. idea C. point D. solution
17.A. in the least B. for a moment C. after all D. at the moment
18.A. let B. find C. make D. catch
19.A. maintain B. risk C. keep D. stop
20.A. draws B. holds C. pushes D. welcomes
When ______, the new railway will run for 250 miles.
A. to complete B. completed
C. being completed D. to be completed
It was really noisy in the workshop. Not until ______ at the top of my voice ______ to look at me.
A. did I shout; he turned B. had I shouted; had he turned
C. did I shout; did he turn D. had I shouted; he turns
______ the warning message, more visitors might have been trapped in the flood.
A. Apart from B. Regardless of C. Other than D. But for
______ to sunlight for too much time will do harm to one’s skin.
A. After exposed B. If exposing
C. Having exposed D. Being exposed
