Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
I have a problem, and I need your help. I always thought I was popular school.
just now I fount out my friends didn’t invite
to their party. Everyone else in my class
invited except me, and I don’t know
. I can’t think
I did wrong. I’m very upset, and don’t know how to deal
it? What do you think? Can you
me?
I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.
As I _ _ my car, I saw one of my _ _ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _ _, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _ _ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _ _ I would be able to find my way back.
We _ _ about our work as I drove and _ _ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _ _ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _ _ me. But soon I _ _ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _ _.
I was _ _ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _ _. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _ _ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _ _. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _ _ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _ _, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _ _ rolled his window down.
I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _ _ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _ _ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.
Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.
A.discovered B.approached C.parked D.searched
A.patients B.classmates C.students D.workmates
A.yet B.still C.but D.besides
A.night B.morning C.afternoon D.noon
A.afraid B.happy C.confident D.sorry
A.worried B.cared C.talked D.explored
A.before B.if C.as D.though
A.Everything B.Nothing C.Anything D.Something
A.attract B.delight C.bother D.enjoy
A.escaped B.existed C.imagined D.realized
A.quiet B.calm C.silent D.brave
A.across B.over C.within D.beyond
A.wheel B.engine C.watch D.seat
A.drove B.deserted C.washed D.stopped
A.helpless B.excited C.satisfied D.delighted
A.shadow B.truck C.lady D.animal
A.faster B.nervously C.closer D.back
A.unlikely B.slowly C.carefully D.equally
A.came B.mistook C.recognized D.missed
A.pulled into B.drove away C.ran across D.fount out
It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.
"Any old papers, lady?" asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say “no” ____looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin scandals (凉鞋),wet with heavy snow.
“Come in and I'11 you a cup of hot cocoa.”
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet shoes left on the floor.I __ them cocoa and toast with jam the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget. The silence in the front door __ __me. I looked in. The girl__ the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat ," Lady ... are you rich?"
"Am I rich? Mercy, !" I looked at my shabby slipcover(家具套).The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) .
“Your cups match your saucers.”
Her voice was ___ __with a need that no amount of food could supply.They left after that, holding their against the wind.They hadn't said thank you.
They didn’t to. They had done more than that. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they __ __.
I tasted the potatoes and stirred(搅动)the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a __ over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and the living room.The muddy prints of small scandals were still on my floor. “ them be for a while,” I thought. Just I should begin to forget how I am.
A.when B.after C.while D.until
A.make B.provide C.do D.cook
A.signs B.signals C.marks D.symbols
A.showed B.served C.carried D.supplied
A.against B.from C.on D.in
A.beat B.struck C.got D.noticed
A.watched B.lifted C.held D.put
A.word B.method C.state D.voice
A.yes B.sure C.no D.always
A.suddenly B.carefully C.quickly D.anxiously
A.hungry B.satisfied C.pleased D.curious
A.books B.papers C.dishes D.drinks
A.dare B.plan C.want D.need
A.shone B.matched C.broke D.equaled
A.house B.ceiling C.roof D.curtain
A.washed B.rubbed C.wiped D.tidied
A.dry B.gone C.wet D.new
A.Made B.Let C.Got D.Kept
A.in case B.as if C.if only D.only if
A.nice B.free C.busy D.rich
Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laurence told us that while McKay is usually a person, he had been to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.
Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener, he is also a collector. Unfortunately for him, the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKay's, or too often, on the McKays .
“For the last fortnight, since Smith moved into the flat above us, we have hardly dared to go to our ,” said Laurence. She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant bothered them, it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks. “We'd be there happily reading our newspapers, when so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd with our clothes on! Neither could we get rid of the of fish!”
And on Saturday evening it was just too . “It was James's birthday,” explained Laurence, “and I'd made him a birthday cake. The candles were a great sight as you can imagine, but James didn't get to blow them out.” , Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet . Rarely had Laurence seen McKay move so fast. “I couldn't him. He was up there in a flash. It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”
Smith is not going to take things further with the police. He has also promised to change his from now on. And what of James McKay? he left the police station, a large crowd of supporters sang him, “Happy Birthday”. “ the most exciting birthday !” said the cheerful old man. “The best since my adolescence I'd say!”
A.hitting B.tapping C.pushing D.touching
A.by B.via C.through D.with
A.quiet B.peaceful C.sensitive D.stubborn
A.accustomed B.taken C.driven D.attracted
A.fish B.seed C.plant D.newspaper
A.himself B.itself C.themselves D.herself
A.bathroom B.kitchen C.bedroom D.balcony
A.which B.what C.that D.whether
A.sitting B.exercising C.sleeping D.eating
A.regularly B.unconsciously C.precisely D.suddenly
A.swum B.showered C.watered D.drowned
A.taste B.sense C.feeling D.smell
A.little B.soon C.late D.much
A.Beside B.Instead C.Otherwise D.Consequently
A.over B.across C.through D.down
A.stop B.blame C.ignore D.stand
A.views B.attitude C.ways D.mind
A.While B.Since C.Until D.As
A.Sincerely B.Impossibly C.Definitely D.Previously
A.before B.ever C.already D.since
A rich man was camping alone on a hill. One day it began to rain and the rain the tent wet. At last he had to make his way home.
As he passed a beautiful house he to look for rest. A lady in silk walked past him with her nose in the . Following her were her two pretty daughters. They stopped and glared at(盯着) him.
“ are you? We don't like tramps (流浪汉) going our home,” one of them shouted.
“Go away at once!” the other.
“But I’m no tramp,” said the man, “ I want is food and stay for the night.”
“How dare you come here? Go away at once,” the lady repeated. “We don’t like your around our house. Go, go!”
The man moved on and a small house. On entering it he saw a couple preparing their supper. Though the light was dim (昏暗) and the furniture was poor, had a warm, friendly atmosphere(气氛,氛围).
“Can I have food and rest for the night?” he asked.
“Of course, friend,” said the woman, forward a little stool for him. “We’re going to our supper. Come and us. ”
The food was scarce(缺乏,缺少) but they it with the stranger. That night they let him sleep on their bed they themselves used the stable (马厩). Early the next morning, the man said good-bye to them. Their made a good impression in his .
When he arrived home he quickly ordered a lovely house to be for the couple in the woods.
A.made B.kept C.drove D.sent
A.forgot B.stopped C.managed D.asked
A.was B.wore C.put D.dressed
A.wind B.room C.sky D.air
A.How B.What C.Who D.Where
A.from B.over C.in D.around
A.answered B.spoke C.cried D.replied
A.Which B.What C.Both D.All
A.model B.kind C.men D.feet
A.arrived B.got C.reached D.stopped
A.it B.they C.he D.she
A.any B.some C.much D.good
A.handing B.pulling C.pushing D.bringing
A.prepare B.buy C.finish D.have
A.help B.join C.move D.see
A.added B.gave C.divided D.shared
A.while B.because C.when D.after
A.friendship B.kindness C.spirit D.poorness
A.look B.memory C.heart D.head
A.moved B.sent C.built D.found
I met Billy the last summer before college. He was handsome and his irreverence(玩世不恭) was to me. We liked each other the first instant we met. , I was a straight A student and my parents had high hopes for me to an Ivy League (常春藤联盟) school. Billy did not concentrate all his attention his study and school life. However, we were in love --- so teenager love. I still remember we had a plan for prom(舞会). It was understood that we had about where we would dance and drink and party together.
This meant one thing to my parents---panic. And it grew as the letters began to roll in. Of the eleven schools I applied to, nine accepted me. And one of them was Brown University---the Ivy League in 1770 in historic Providence, Rhode Island.
There was no that I was drawn to Brown, but Billy (who had joined the army) was down south and I had offers for me there, too. I was torn between my love for him and my family .
One week the start of school, my mother had a talk with me. She said I was eighteen years old and I had a to make--- one that went beyond the choice of to attend university.
In August, I and drove north to Providence. It took several months to that my life was moving on in a way that was completely different from Billy’s. Brown changed my life, opening doors and giving me the I now use to think, to learn and to write. Life is always about it seems, and the older I get, the more I understand this. Still, there are times when I think of Billy because he taught me about love.
A.confusing B.disturbing C.appealing D.amusing
A.Unfortunately B.Actually C.Luckily D.Originally
A.leave B.start C.finish D.attend
A.in B.at C.on D.from
A.special B.crazy C.wrong D.normal
A.talked B.looked C.lied D.argued
A.description B.rejection C.application D.acceptance
A.constructed B.assessed C.assisted D.informed
A.point B.use C.doubt D.need
A.left B.sent C.exposed D.employed
A.waiting B.asking C.hoping D.searching
A.tradition B.connection C.reputation D.expectation
A.before B.after C.at D.since
A.plan B.decision C.rule D.promise
A.out B.away C.far D.deep
A.when B.where C.whether D.how
A.got up B.packed up C.looked up D.turned up
A.foresee B.imagine C.realize D.consider
A.chances B.position C.equipment D.tools
A.surprises B.adventures C.opportunities D.choices