The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and picked up four people from the street. One of them was in a most  15  condition, and I told the others: You look after the other three. I take care of this one who looked  16 . So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful  17  on her face. She took hold of my   __18__as she said “thank you” and she died. I asked myself what I would say if I was in her  19. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little 20  to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something else, but she gave me much more---she gave me her grateful love. And she 21  with a smile on her face. As did that man whom we picked up from the drain (下水道), half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. “I have lived like an  22 in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.” And it was so  23 to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without complaining, without cursing(诅咒) anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel---this is the 24  of our people.

The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and picked up four people from the street. One of them was in a most  15  condition, and I told the others: You look after the other three. I take care of this one who looked  16 . So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful  17  on her face. She took hold of my   __18__as she said “thank you” and she died. I asked myself what I would say if I was in her  19. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little 20  to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something else, but she gave me much more---she gave me her grateful love. And she 21  with a smile on her face. As did that man whom we picked up from the drain (下水道), half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. “I have lived like an  22 in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.” And it was so  23 to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without complaining, without cursing(诅咒) anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel---this is the 24  of our people.

1.                A．comfortable     B．important       C．difficult   D．terrible

2.                A．better          B．happier         C．worse    D．different

3.                A．smile           B．tear            C．laugh     D．surprise

4.                A．head           B．face            C．coat D．hand

5.                A．place          B．room           C．home    D．side

6.                A．attraction       B．ability          C．advice    D．attention

7.                A．lived           B．died           C．came D．talked

8.                A．ant            B．angel           C．animal    D．actor

9.                A．wonderful       B．difficult         C．grateful   D．important

10.               A．achievement    B．greatness       C．behavior   D．unhappiness

Last July, my 12-year-old car died on California's Santa Freeway. It was an hour before sunset, and I was 25 miles from home. I couldn't reach anyone to pick me up, so I    36    to take a bus. Not knowing the routes(线路), I thought I'd just go east.

    A bus stopped. I got   37    and asked the driver how far she was going. “Ten more miles,” she said. There was   38    bus I could take from there. This clearly was going to be a long night.

    I got off at the end of the route and she told me which bus to look   39   . After waiting 30 minutes, I began to think about a very expensive taxi   40    home. Then a bus came up. There was no lighted number above its windshield (挡风玻璃). It was out of service, but the door opened. It was the same driver.

    “I just can't leave you here,” she said. “This isn't the nicest place. I will take you home.”

    “You will drive me home on the bus?” I asked in   41   .

    “No, I will take you in my car,” she said.

    “It's a long way.”

    “Come on,” she said. “I have nothing    42    to do.”

    She began telling me a story   43   we drove from the station in the car. A few days   44   , her brother had run out of gas (汽油). A kind man picked him up, took him to a service station and then back to his car. “I'm just passing the kindness along,” she said.

    When I offered her money as a thank-you, she refused. “Just do   45   nice for somebody. Pass it along,” she said.

36. A. agreed  B. decided          C. found    D. used

37. A. away         B. down         C. on       D. off

38. A. another      B. same         C. every    D. each

39. A. at           B. into             C. after        D. for

40. A. ride         B. ticket       C. guide    D. driver

41. A. agreement    B. surprise         C. heart    D. order

42. A. hardly  B. probably         C. else         D. everywhere

43. A. so       B. because          C. before  D. as

44. A. later        B. earlier          C. more     D. missing

45. A. something    B. everything  C. anything     D. nothing