A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine.
My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.
7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because he wasn’t 10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby has. His “ 12 ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed all the 15 of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 16 nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same.
1.A.work B.stay C.live D.expect
2.A.answer B.speak C.smile D.laugh
3.A.covering B.moving C.fighting D.pressing
4.A.minds B.memories C.thoughts D.brains
5.A.better B.dark C.younger D.old
6.A.cave B.place C.sight D.scene
7.A.Discussing B.Solving C.Sharing D.Suffering
8.A.learn from B.talk to C.help D.know
9.A.needed B.recognized C.interested D.encouraged
10.A.normal B.common C.unusual D.quick
11.A.more B.worse C.fewer D.less
12.A.word B.speech C.sentence D.language
13.A.not B.no C.something D.nothing
14.A.fed B.kept C.lived D.depended
15.A.attention B.control C.treatment D.management
16.A.lost B.needed C.destroyed D.left
17.A.troublesome B.unlucky C.angry D.unpopular
18.A.separated B.went C.reunited D.returned
19.A.pushed B.tried C.showed D.measured
20.A.nodding B.greeting C.meeting D.acting
参考答案及解析
1—5 CADBB 6—10 DCDCA 11—15 DBBDA 16—20 ABADB
1.C 上文的“incurables"表明这位老人是不治之症患者，存活的时间不会太长。
2.A 我叫他名字, 他不会回答。
3.D 由下文暗示可知，37岁的Frank不如一个婴儿的智力。他不能用语言回答别人的问话，但内心有一定的反应，因此一见到我便将右脚靠着我的右脚以示问候。
4.B Frank的这一举动使我的记忆一下子回到了30年前。
5. B 下文交待30年前作者的生活，二战期间他只能住在防空洞中，生活很苦，只能用“dark”来形容当年的岁月。
6.D 作者回忆30年前的生活，头脑中出现了防空洞的情景。
7.C ;8.D 在战争问题上由于拥有共同的话题，我们这些防空洞居住者逐渐了解了对方。
9.C ;10. A 一个37岁的人智力却不正常，这一现象逐渐吸引了我的注意。
11.D 尽管Frank已经37岁，但智力还不如一个婴儿。
12.B;13.B 他的讲话仅体现了内心的快乐和愤怒，没有更多实在的内容。
14.D;15.A West夫人不得不强壮而又有能力，因为Frank完全依靠于她，他需要婴儿似的全部照料。
16. A 她几乎失去了一切。
17. B West夫人遭受这么大的损失，大家尽力帮助这不幸的一家人。
18. A ;
19. D ;
20. B 那天早上临走前，我站在Frank身边，将我的右脚靠着Frank 的右脚以便量出他脚的大小，目的是为他买一双鞋子。Frank将我的这一动作看成是问候的表现，从此他就用这一动作来问候我，这就有了本文开头的那种情景。
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When Andra Rush started her trucking company, all she had was an old van，two used pick-up trucks and the simple certainty of a 23-year-old girl. But she planned to make her fortune in about four years to 36 her true goal: dealing with poverty on Native American reservations across North America. "I thought I could retire by the time I was 27," says Rush, "At that age, you don't know 37 you don't know."
Rush is 49 now and 38 working hard. Her tiny start-up just outside Detroit has 39 to a $400 million North American business. Today Rush is a(an) 40 not only for Native Americans but also for women in the male-controlled world of trucking.
Rush was 41 30 miles outside Detroit. When the teenage Rush visited the reservation for the first time, she was 42 by the poverty and lack of hope. "I really wanted to 43 " she says.
She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1982. She took a nursing job with a 44 pay and then practiced at an air goods company, 45 the speed of package pickups and deliveries made a little more a little more profits. "I thought I could do that 46 ," Rush says.
Within six months, Rush had ten employees, and clients(客户) 47 Ford and GM were paying her to 48 small packages from the airport. Ford was the first to offer her a job trucking parts between its plants and supplier.
By 2001, many of Rush's 1,000 employees were Native Americans, working alongside people of every 49 But she felt she hadn't done enough. 50 she joined forces with a Canadian parts maker to design and gather auto components.
She located the plants near reservations, 51 opportunities where they were needed most. By 2009, her auto parts business was earning $370 million 52 .
She's come a long way from the 53 23-year-old who thought "the cash would just roll in." But Rush wouldn't change a thing: "I love my job," she says. "I 54 the fact that you can start to get some motivation and keep 55 yourself—and then suddenly you lift your head and it's been 25 years"
36. A.make B. accomplish C. receive D.arrive
37. A.what B.which C.why D.who
38. A.so B.somehow C.still D.anyhow
39. A. grown B.become C.got D.gone
40. A.able housewife B.ordinary woman C.role model D.truck driver
41. A.brought B.lived C.risen D.raised
42. A.moved B.interested C.struck D.encouraged
43. A have an influence B.make a difference C.set an example D.make a decision
44. A.low B.high C.cheap D.expensive
45.A.which B.that C.when D.where
46.A.well B.badly C.worse D.better
47.A.like B.besides C.for D.except
48.A.take B.fetch C.bring D.lift
49.A.education B.family C.background D.city
50.A.Because B.For C.But D.So
51.A.seizing B.creating C.grasping D.losing
52.A.in case B.in turn C.in return D.in need
53.A.inexperienced B.experienced C.expert D.skilled
54.A.enjoy B.hate C.doubt D.refuse
55.A.fighting B.forcing C.challenging D.amusing
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