A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 1 , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

　　“Frank!” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 2 , as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine.

　　My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

　　7 wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to 8 each other very well. Frank West 9 me because he wasn’t 10 , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had 11 of a mind than a baby has. His “ 12 ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and 13 more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank 14 on her entirely. He needed all the 15 of a baby.

　　One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She 16 nearly everything she owned.

　　When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the 17 ones. So before we 18 that morning, I stood beside Frank and 19 my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his 20 to me was always the same.

　　1.A.work B.stay C.live D.expect

　　2.A.answer B.speak C.smile D.laugh

　　3.A.covering B.moving C.fighting D.pressing

　　4.A.minds B.memories C.thoughts D.brains

　　5.A.better B.dark C.younger D.old

　　6.A.cave B.place C.sight D.scene

　　7.A.Discussing B.Solving C.Sharing D.Suffering

　　8.A.learn from B.talk to C.help D.know

　　9.A.needed B.recognized C.interested D.encouraged

　　10.A.normal B.common C.unusual D.quick

　　11.A.more B.worse C.fewer D.less

　　12.A.word B.speech C.sentence D.language

　　13.A.not B.no C.something D.nothing

　　14.A.fed B.kept C.lived D.depended

　　15.A.attention B.control C.treatment D.management

　　16.A.lost B.needed C.destroyed D.left

　　17.A.troublesome B.unlucky C.angry D.unpopular

　　18.A.separated B.went C.reunited D.returned

　　19.A.pushed B.tried C.showed D.measured

　　20.A.nodding B.greeting C.meeting D.acting

　　參考答案及解析

　　1—5 CADBB 6—10 DCDCA 11—15 DBBDA 16—20 ABADB

　　1.C 上文的“incurables"表明這位老人是不治之癥患者，存活的時間不會太長。

　　2.A 我叫他名字, 他不會回答。

　　3.D 由下文暗示可知，37歲的Frank不如一個嬰兒的智力。他不能用語言回答別人的問話，但內心有一定的反應，因此一見到我便將右腳靠著我的右腳以示問候。

　　4.B Frank的這一舉動使我的記憶一下子回到了30年前。

　　5. B 下文交待30年前作者的生活，二戰(zhàn)期間他只能住在防空洞中，生活很苦，只能用“dark”來形容當年的歲月。

　　6.D 作者回憶30年前的生活，頭腦中出現了防空洞的情景。

　　7.C ;8.D 在戰(zhàn)爭問題上由于擁有共同的話題，我們這些防空洞居住者逐漸了解了對方。

　　9.C ;10. A 一個37歲的人智力卻不正常，這一現象逐漸吸引了我的注意。

　　11.D 盡管Frank已經37歲，但智力還不如一個嬰兒。

　　12.B;13.B 他的講話僅體現了內心的快樂和憤怒，沒有更多實在的內容。

　　14.D;15.A West夫人不得不強壯而又有能力，因為Frank完全依靠于她，他需要嬰兒似的全部照料。

　　16. A 她幾乎失去了一切。

　　17. B West夫人遭受這么大的損失，大家盡力幫助這不幸的一家人。

　　18. A ;

　　19. D ;

　　20. B 那天早上臨走前，我站在Frank身邊，將我的右腳靠著Frank 的右腳以便量出他腳的大小，目的是為他買一雙鞋子。Frank將我的這一動作看成是問候的表現，從此他就用這一動作來問候我，這就有了本文開頭的那種情景。

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　　When Andra Rush started her trucking company, all she had was an old van，two used pick-up trucks and the simple certainty of a 23-year-old girl. But she planned to make her fortune in about four years to 36 her true goal: dealing with poverty on Native American reservations across North America. "I thought I could retire by the time I was 27," says Rush, "At that age, you don't know 37 you don't know."

　　Rush is 49 now and 38 working hard. Her tiny start-up just outside Detroit has 39 to a $400 million North American business. Today Rush is a(an) 40 not only for Native Americans but also for women in the male-controlled world of trucking.

　　Rush was 41 30 miles outside Detroit. When the teenage Rush visited the reservation for the first time, she was 42 by the poverty and lack of hope. "I really wanted to 43 " she says.

　　She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1982. She took a nursing job with a 44 pay and then practiced at an air goods company, 45 the speed of package pickups and deliveries made a little more a little more profits. "I thought I could do that 46 ," Rush says.

　　Within six months, Rush had ten employees, and clients(客戶) 47 Ford and GM were paying her to 48 small packages from the airport. Ford was the first to offer her a job trucking parts between its plants and supplier.

　　By 2001, many of Rush's 1,000 employees were Native Americans, working alongside people of every 49 But she felt she hadn't done enough. 50 she joined forces with a Canadian parts maker to design and gather auto components.

　　She located the plants near reservations, 51 opportunities where they were needed most. By 2009, her auto parts business was earning $370 million 52 .

　　She's come a long way from the 53 23-year-old who thought "the cash would just roll in." But Rush wouldn't change a thing: "I love my job," she says. "I 54 the fact that you can start to get some motivation and keep 55 yourself—and then suddenly you lift your head and it's been 25 years"

　　36. A.make B. accomplish C. receive D.arrive

　　37. A.what B.which C.why D.who

　　38. A.so B.somehow C.still D.anyhow

　　39. A. grown B.become C.got D.gone

　　40. A.able housewife B.ordinary woman C.role model D.truck driver

　　41. A.brought B.lived C.risen D.raised

　　42. A.moved B.interested C.struck D.encouraged

　　43. A have an influence B.make a difference C.set an example D.make a decision

　　44. A.low B.high C.cheap D.expensive

　　45.A.which B.that C.when D.where

　　46.A.well B.badly C.worse D.better

　　47.A.like B.besides C.for D.except

　　48.A.take B.fetch C.bring D.lift

　　49.A.education B.family C.background D.city

　　50.A.Because B.For C.But D.So

　　51.A.seizing B.creating C.grasping D.losing

　　52.A.in case B.in turn C.in return D.in need

　　53.A.inexperienced B.experienced C.expert D.skilled

　　54.A.enjoy B.hate C.doubt D.refuse

　　55.A.fighting B.forcing C.challenging D.amusing

　　36-55 BACAC DCBAD DABCD BCAAC