Question

  Like most people,I was brought up to look upon life as a process of get?ting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1      ： giving away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2        money.

This is how I 3        with giving away. If an idea for improving the win?dow display of a neighbourhood store 4        to me,I step in and make the sug?gestion to the 5      . If an accident takes place,the 6        of which I think the local police could use,I 7        him up and tell him about it,though I am not in 8        here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9        get?ting something back,though the 10        often comes in an unexpected form.

  One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 11        letter to my home,though it was 12        to me at my office. I wrote the post?master a note of 13      More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was 14      . I was told at the window that there were 15        boxes left,and that my name would have to go on a long 16        list. As I was about to 17     ,the postmaster appeared in the 18      . "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 19        we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 20        but complaints (投訴) .”

1. A. decision   B. research   C. speech   D. discovery

2. A. earn   B. lack   C. spend   D. steal

3. A. experienced   B. connected   C. combined   D. agreed

4. A. happens   B. flashes   C. sticks   D. leads

5. A. postmaster   B. headmaster   C. storekeeper   D. policeman

6. A. story   B. damage   C. challenge   D. material

7. A. call   B. hold   C. break   D. pick

8. A. need   B. trouble   C. common   D. charge

9. A. within   B. without   C. for   D. before 

10. A. process   B. goal   C. return   D. concern 

11.A. curious   B. immediate   C. special   D. heavy 

12. A. realized   B. addressed   C. forgotten   D. brought 

13.A. invitation   B. apology   C. instruction   D. appreciation 

14.A. dealing   B. providing   C. operating   D. starting 

15.A. enough   B. some   C. no   D. more 

16.A. admitting   B. relating   C. examining   D. waiting 

17. A. leave   B. shout   C. guess   D. conduct 

18.A. window   B. doorway   C. library   D. yard 

19.  A. in case   B. now that   C. even if   D. as if 

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

Answer 1

1. D像很多人一樣，"我"生來就認為生活就是獲得，直到快四十歲的時候才發現，饋贈也會使得生活如此精彩。故選D.

2. B

3. A下文列舉的事例都是作者生活中所經歷的事情。

4. B本句主語為an idea ,主意在某人腦海中閃現用flash。happen to sb發生在某人身上。

stick to堅持;lead to 導致。

5. C根據前文提到的"neighbourhood store"可知答案。

6. A story故事，事情。出現事故，警察應了解事情的經過和真相。damage破壞;challenge挑戰;material物質，材料。

7. A根據后文的"...tell him about it…"可知作者是打電話告訴警察事情的經過。

8. D作者雖然不負責這里的事情，但他卻主動幫助警察了解事故的經過。

9. B上文列舉的事例都表明作者想主動幫助別人而不希望得到什么。 

10. C return回報。根據轉折連詞though和下文所列舉的事例表明，幫助別人有時候在不經意時也會得到回報。 

11. C根據下文中postmaster所說的話可知答案。 

12. B address此處為動詞，意為"注明……的地址"。信上標明收信人的地址是"我"辦公室的地址，但郵遞員卻把它送到了"我"的家里。 

13. D appreciation感謝，感激。郵遞員把本來該送到辦公室的信送到家里，人們通常只會責備他們，而作者卻與此相反，非但沒有責備，而是寫了一封表揚信，他也因此得到了回報。 

14. D本句為定語從句，橫線上所缺動詞的賓語為new business deal為不及物動詞，故排除。此處表示"作者開辦了一項新的業務"。故選D.

15. C結合上下文可知，郵局里已沒有剩余的郵箱。 

16. D郵局里沒有剩余的郵箱，要想安裝郵箱，只能等到有的時候。 

17. A作者被告知已沒有郵箱，只好離開。 

18. B作者正要離開，郵遞員在門口攔住了他。 

19. C在這個郵局里，你應該得到一個郵箱，即便是"我們" 給你做一個。even if即使;in case以防;now that既然，因為;as if好像。

20. C本題考查not— but…結構，意為"不是……而是