Question

When Nancy Lublin got $5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off her student loans. ___1___, the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing ___2___ faced by most of today’s low-income women. “If she goes for a job interview ___3___ dressed, she won’t get the job,” Lublin says. “But without a job, she can’t ___4___ proper clothing.”

       A few weeks later, Lublin ___5___ Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to give away ___6___ business clothes that were ___7___ in good condition. She asked the members of diet centers to give away clothes that no longer fitted. At first Lublin ___8___ the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment, but later on she found ___9___ in the Greenwich Village church basement, which now ___10___ as the organization’s main office.

       Today, when women arrive at the office for help with job-hunting, they ___11___ a dress, shoes, a bag, a pair of stocking, jewelry, and self-confidence as well. ___12___ are trying to enter the workforce after being on welfare (福利) for years.

       ___13___Dress for Success fitted its first person who got help a year ago, more than 1,000 women have received help and many have won ___14___. Yarit Polanco was recently ___15___ as a law-firm office manager. “Thanks to Dress for Success, I made a good impression and was accepted,” she says.

       Donations (捐贈(zèng)) are now ___16___in, including jewelry and 6,000 pairs of trousers and $40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lublin is opening Dress for Success ___17___ in other cities. “Many women have clothes___18___ around that they’ll never wear again,” says a volunteer. “Nancy’s ___19___ is simple and practical and the ___20___ has proved so important to those women who are in great need of it.”

1. A. Anyway        B. Instead              C. Fortunately        D. Meanwhile

2. A. condition              B. direction            C. design               D. plan

3. A. poorly                  B. well                  C. better                D. worse

4. A. make                    B. find                   C. wear                 D. afford

5. A. reached                B. called                C. founded            D. visited

6. A. used                     B. needed                     C. new                  D. torn

7. A. yet                       B. already              C. almost               D. still

8. A. hid                B. stored               C. discovered         D. hanged

9. A. space                   B. employers          C. work                D. office

10. A. regards               B. serves               C. looks                D. lies

11. A. buy                    B. sell                    C. receive              D. watch

12. A. Both                   B. None                 C. All                    D. Some

13. A. When                 B. Once                 C. Although           D. Since

14. A. jobs                    B. shoes                C. business            D. prizes

15. A. fired                   B. hired                 C. interviewed        D. considered

16. A. giving                 B. pouring             C. showing            D. sending

17. A. schools               B. trades                C. races                D. branches

18. A. lying                   B. appearing           C. collecting          D. coming

19. A. promise                     B. belief                 C. idea                  D. opinion

20. A. help                    B. work                 C. shop                 D. money

Answer 1

1-5 BAADC    6-10 ADBAB     11-15 CDDAB     16-20 BDACA