阅读理解。 Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction
Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited
a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time
after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete
strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the
spot I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people
do not like to admit that they didn"t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do
not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long
list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell
between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to
avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the
way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that
he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back
and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did
not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to
my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
B. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
C. He will give the very person long list of direction.
D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.
B. He felt embarrassed.
C. He felt very sad.
D. He felt astonished.
B. The writer did it for himself.
C. The secretary did so.
D. A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing.
amounts of money 1 lotteries (彩票). People pay money for tickets with a combination (组合) of 2 . If
your combination is 3 , you will win a huge amount of money- often millions of dollars.
A few years ago, my friend Tom won the lottery. It 4 his life. He did not come from a rich family. In
fact, he earned very little. Sometimes, Tom even had to 5 money from his relatives and friends, but he
wasn"t the kind of person who never paid back the money he owed. 6 , he was always very 7 with the
money he spent.
One day, Tom spent 8 dollars on a lottery ticket. He never thought he would win lots of money but 9 ,
his combination of numbers was chosen and he won a great deal of money.
Tom was so 10 . The first thing he did was to 11 a new car that he was dreaming of, and then he
started spending more money on unnecessary things. He learnt to waste money, 12 he had money to burn.
13 we got together for a meal at a restaurant, Tom 14 always try to pay the bill, and he 15 telling me that
money made him feel very happy.
However, Tom spent the money too fast, and he became 16 again. He had no money left.
I do feel 17 for him. He had 18 money to live like a king. Instead, he is 19 to living like a poor person.
Some people might say he is 20 about small things, but not about important things.
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| Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new 1 in high school. 2 , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders (拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be 3 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 4 read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart 5 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 6 , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework. Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 7 . She moved on to English and history, and was 8 to find that she didn"t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 9 math for the time being. The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 10 . Mrs. Biden wasn"t as 11 as Jenna. "I"m sorry, but we have enough 12 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we"ll talk then." Jenna smiled 13 and left. "Why is high school so 14 ?" she sighed. Later in 15 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 16 . By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she"d continue to try to 17 at her new school. She wasn"t sure if she"d succeed, but she knew she had to 18 . High school was just as her mom had said: "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 19 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 20 fish you can be." | ||||||||||||||||
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