As Ryan Lee Cox was waiting to pay for his coffee order at an Indiana, US fast food drive-through, he decided to try something he5d seen on a TV news show - he paid for the coffee order of the driver in the car behind. The small ___ made the young businessperson feel ____ , so he shared his experience on Facebook. An old friend suggested that __ paying for peopled coffee, Ryan put that money towards helping school students pay off their delinquent(拖欠税款的)school lunch accounts. Sometimes because of ____ hardship, the accounts fall into __ balance and the kids suffer. She got the idea after hearing that a Utah student was __ lunch.
So the following week Ryan visited his nephew5s school ____ and asked if he could give some help, and ____ $100. Impressed by his ___, the supervisor began ____ fines before Ryan asked what the entire school’s balance for lunches was. It was $1261.98. “I’ll see you next Friday,” he told the supervisor.
When he got home, Ryan shared what he had done on social ____, and that he ____ to help Lakeside Elementary have no lunch accounts in the negative. He set up a bank account and encouraged people to __. Their target was ____ in a matter of days. With more than enough money to pay for Lakeside, Ryan ___ another school.
Within two weeks they had ___ $4142.82 and were able to help four schools. Inspired by people’s __,Ryan organized a non-profit called Feed the Kids, Inc., which __ a website, www.kidslunches.org, for people to start ___ for specific schools or to set up repeated payments to ___ a student. Today, this “paying it forward” organization is onto its fifth school.
1.A. gesture B. reaction C. proposal D. request
2.A. awkward B. annoyed C. great D. inspired
3.A. rather than B. due to C. apart from D. along with
4.A. artificial B. economic C. unconscious D. controversial
5.A. negative B. beneficial C. transparent D. delicate
6.A. awarded B. paid C. required D. denied
7.A. cafeteria B. facility C. dormitory D. website
8.A. handed out B. handed in C. handed over D. handed on
9.A. curiosity B. generosity C. purity D. reliability
10.A. taking off B. putting off C. paying off D. letting off
11.A. context B. club C. system D. media
12.A. ended B. pretended C. extended D. intended
13.A. donate B. check C. invest D. deposit
14.A. arranged B. reached C. aimed D. missed
15.A. conducted B. contacted C. constructed D. controlled
16.A. saved B. spent C. raised D. earned
17.A. enthusiasm B. appeal C. demand D. emotion
18.A. checks B. searches C. visits D. offers
19.A. campaigns B. recreations C. ambitions D. profits
20.A. defend B. educate C. sponsor D. encourage
— Which classical Chinese poem do you like best?
—Don’t laugh if we lay drunken on the battleground; how many soldiers ever came back______.
A. old and young B. up and down C. safe and sound D. right and wrong
Modesty is a kind of good quality, which is ______it takes to be your personal best.
A. what B. where C. which D. when
— Shall we go to the seven o’clock performance or the eight?
— _____suits you fine.
A. Whatever B. Whichever C. Whenever D. Wherever
— What’s the recent progress in Xiong’an New Area, first announced two years ago?
—It _____ increasing attention from foreign companies given its huge development potential.
A. has been attracting B. had attracted C. would be attracting D. was attracting
The explosion in the chemical plant ______ avoided had the county authorities, aiming too much at short-term interests, performed their duties from the beginning.
A. should be B. might be C. must have been D. could have been