In 1990 the small workshop was ______ a factory.

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A. turned into B. turned down C. turned out D. turned over

After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed (不知所措) with the   1.  of earning a living,   2.  the little children.

One  3.  evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd (牧羊犬) on our  4.. This wonderful strong animal   5.  to enter the house and make it his   6. . The children took an instant liking to “German” and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement until the next day,   7. we could inquire around the neighborhood for his  8.. That night I slept  9.  for the first time in many weeks.

The following morning we   10.  to find German’s owner, but with no results. On Sunday I took the children on a picnic and we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas at a local station, we were   11.  to see German racing to the gas station after us. 12.  was he going to be left behind.

On Monday morning I let him out for a run when the children got ready for school. As evening came and German didn’t appear, we were all   13. . The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again we took him in, and again he stayed   14.  Monday morning. This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more   15.  of German. We stopped thinking about   16.  he belonged — he belonged to us. As German became part of the family, he considered   17.  his duty to take up his position by the front door and remained there until the morning.

Each week, between German’s visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver; every weekend I enjoyed his   18. . Then one Monday morning we   19.  his head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. He never came back. I believe German was sent because he was needed, and because no matter how   20. and alone we feel, somehow, somewhere, someone knows and cares. We are never really alone.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Nowadays lots of students ask their parents for money to buy things they like. For me, to ask for money is like entering a(n) _36__. I learned this from  37 .
Last year my mother told me that the _ 38  way I would get a driver’s license before I turned eighteen depended on _ 39  I paid for the classes myself. “What?” I asked in _ 40  . But I knew _ 41  that my reasoning would have no_ 42  on the situation,  43__ by the look on my mother’s face.
Three weeks later, I started working _ 44  a hostess at a factory, twice a week. A month later I paid $ 270 for driving lessons, and then over $ 20 to _ 45  my permit test. My pockets were empty _ 46  as soon as they were filled.
My mother thought that I’d be _ 47  to do things without her help. The funny thing was that even though I was totally _ 48  in the beginning, I truly appreciated it, _ 49  if I had just been handed bills from her.
When I realized that my mother wasn’t going to _ 50  something like a driver’s license, at first, it seemed as if she had __51__ an immovable block before me and I would never _ 52  it. But my mother was __53 _. She knew that I wanted a luxury（奢侈品）but _ 54  me to get it. That is as _ 55  as this ---- if I really want it, I’ll find a way to get it myself.

Henry's job was to examine people who crossed the frontier (边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling (走私) anything into the country. Every evening except at weekends, he would see a(n) ___ coming up the hill towards the frontier, __ a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle__ the frontier, Henry used to __ the man and order him to take the straw off and ___ it. Then he would examine the straw very ___ to see whether he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets before letting him tie the straw __. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always __ to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he ___ found anything, even though he examined it very carefully. He was___that the man was smuggling __, but he was not able to imagine __ it could be.

  Then one evening, after he had__ the straw and emptied the factory worker's__ as usual, he said to him, “___ I know that you are smuggling things __ this frontier. Won't you tell me what you're bringing into the country so successfully? I'm sixty years old now, and today is my last day on the __ . Tomorrow I'm going to retire. I promise that I shall not tell anyone __ you tell me what you've been smuggling." The factory worker did not say anything ___ . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quietly, “ __ .”

1.A. officer                          B. driver                            C. worker                   D. soldier

2.A. pulling                       B. pushing               C. filling                     D. carrying

3.A. reached                    B. left                             C. faced                            D. formed

4.A. stop                            B. greet                            C. praise                     D. beat

5.A. show                     B. load                              C. light                       D. untie

6.A. carefully                    B. carelessly                     C. angrily                D. quickly

7.A. once                            B. again                            C. yet                                  D. instead

8.A. pretending                 B. believing                      C. expecting               D. asking

9.A. ever                            B. often                            C. always                               D. never

10.A. curious                 B. sure                                C. clever                               D. known

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

12.A. how                          B. which                 C. what                 D. why

13.A. looked after     B. looked through      C. looked for                   D. looked out

14.A. pockets                    B. clothes                          C. socks                D. shoes

15.A. Wait                          B. Go                    C. Listen                          D. Come

16.A. past                           B. from                  C. through                        D. across

17.A. job                            B. mountain                         C. edge               D. road

18.A. as                            B. if                          C. before                       D. whether

19.A. at the moment       B. after all                    C. for a moment           D. at all

20.A. Straw                     B. Money                C. Cars                     D. Bicycles