My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.
【小题1】Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

3.The underlined word “establish” in the third paragraph probably has the same      meaning as              

4.Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?

5.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking. Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.
We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.
For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.
We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.
Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.
“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1. 1.

   Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

   1. A.
      Friends of the Road
   2. B.
      The Silent Woman on the Bus
   3. C.
      Going to Work by Bus
   4. D.
      Different Kinds of Friendship
2. 2.

   All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

   1. A.
      poor
   2. B.
      warm -hearted
   3. C.
      silent
   4. D.
      cold
3. 3.

   The underlined word “establish” in the third paragraph probably has the same      meaning as              

   1. A.
      keep
   2. B.
      discover
   3. C.
      set up
   4. D.
      accept
4. 4.

   Why did the woman usually keep silence while taking the bus?

   1. A.
      She was worried about her disabled son.
   2. B.
      She was sad to see the happy Mexican couple us a single mother.
   3. C.
      She had difficulty in expressing herself.
   4. D.
      She was only interested in the bus driver.
5. 5.

   The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

   1. A.
      they both disabled people
   2. B.
      they both had some difficulty in expressing
   3. C.
      they both liked bus travel
   4. D.
      they both brought interest to the passengers

Charles and I used to hang out all the time, together with a few other guys, but he seemed too cool for us lately．We couldn’t understand the  1   , and we didn’t ask him for an explanation．  2  ，we decided to  3  him a lesson in the way he treated us．

Once we started giving Charles the  4  shoulder, almost everyone was taking no notice of him．He looked so  5  , especially at lunchtime when he sat alone in the cafeteria．Now and then he nodded and said, “Hey!” when  6  passed his table, but all he got  7  return were mean looks and silence．

At first I was glad my plan had  8  , but Charles’ unhappiness made me upset．I only wanted him to know  9  it felt like to be blown off, but I hadn’t thought about how badly my “lesson” would  10  him．

During one lunch period, I  11 as Charles repeatedly glanced at his watch, obviously 12   the minutes until he could leave the cafeteria．I suddenly realized I had done wrong．

“Hey! Man．I’m terribly sorry．” I called out．

Charles turned around   13  , clearly wanting to avoid eye contact．

“Oh, so you are talking to me now?” he asked．

“I’m sorry,   14   I had thought that you wanted to end our friendship．” I said．

“What?” he nearly shouted, looking much   15  ．

“I’ve left you alone because I thought that was what you wanted．”

“Oh, my God! Why would I want  16  ?”I shouted, completely puzzled．

Clearly, we both had been  17  each other wrong．

At first Charles couldn’t accept my  18  ．I knew he needed time to   19 all the hurt I’d caused him．But eventually, he did forgive me．We even started hanging out together  20  ．And our friendship wasn’t destroyed at all．

1．A．situation               B．change               C．action                D．appearance

2．A．Besides             B．Therefore           C．Instead              D．Opposite

3．A．take                B．teach                C．give                 D．attend

4．A．serious              B．friendly              C．warm                D．cold

5．A．sad                 B．angry               C．happy                D．high

6．A．nobody             B．anyone               C．they                  D．someone

7．A．at                  B．in                  C．on                   D．by

8．A．helped              B．operated             C．worked              D．done

9．A．what                  B．that                C．as                    D．how

10．A．worry               B．touch               C．hurt                  D．disappoint

11．A．imagined           B．listened             C．recalled             D．watched

12．A．counting           B．guessing            C．waiting             D．checking

13．A．immediately        B．slowly              C．finally              D．willingly

14．A．and                 B．so                    C．thus                D．but

15．A．interested          B．pleased              C．surprised           D moved

16．A．it                    B．those                C．that                  D．such

17．A．understanding     B．regarding            C．knowing           D treating

18．A．explanation         B．attitude              C．suggestion         D．apology

20．A．seldom            B．once                 C．again                D．also