“My name’s Jim Shelley and I’m an addict(有癮的人). . . ”
With these words I began to ___36___ the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people ___37___, from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I ___38___ to be phoned, I wanted to phone. Just one more call.
It started socially . It seemed ___39___, just a quick chat. Gradually though, the ___40___ got worse. Soon it was ___41___ use, until, finally, addiction.
And it began to affect(影響) my ___42___. During the day I would disappear for ___43___ call. If I couldn’t make a call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more ___44___, in the end, I would ring someone, then someone else, ___45___ myself just one more call.
I was phoning people and ___46___ messages to make sure ___47___ calls would see me through the day. I used to arrive at friends
homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the ___48___ “Is it OK if I just use the phone. . . ?” At work, I became ___49___ when my fellow workers tried to ___50___ me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss(with the phone). Finally, the police caught me ___51___ a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was ___52___ to see a psychiatrist(心理醫(yī)生).
I haven’t ___53___ a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it’s several days ___54___ I used a phone box. I try not to watch TV because there are ___55___ people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.
36. A. face      B. find    C. accept D. notice
37. A. now and then      B. all the time C. at home      D. at work
38. A. tried     B. asked  C. waited D. invited
39. A. polite   B. important   C. fine    D. special
40. A. condition     B. situation     C. result  D. effect
41. A. frequent       B. regular       C. unusual      D. particular
42. A. friends  B. study  C. family D. work
43. A. a quick B. a secret      C. an expected       D. an extra
44. A. hopeful B. delighted    C. frightened  D. anxious
45. A. forcing B. telling C. giving D. limiting
46. A. leaving B. taking C. passing       D. recording
47. A. long     B. immediate  C. enough       D. surprising
48. A. saying  B. demands     C. wish   D. words
49. A. careful  B. mad    C. determined D. helpless
50. A. save     B. reduce C. protect       D. stop
51. A. destroying    B. using  C. stealing      D. emptying
52. A. offered B. guided       C. ordered      D. reminded
53. A. missed  B. had     C. received     D. fixed
54. A. as  B. when  C. if D. since
55. A. always  B. just     C. more   D. different

Perhaps the most interesting person I have ever met is an Italian professor of philosophy who teaches at the University of Pisa. ___36___ I last met this man eight years ago, I have not forgotten his ___37___qualities. First of all, I respected his ___38___ to teaching. Because his lectures were always well-prepared and clearly delivered, students crowded into his classroom. His followers liked the fact that he ___39___ what he taught. Further more, he could be counted on to explain his ideas in an ___40___ way, introducing such aids(輔助) to ___41___ as oil paintings, music, and guest lectures. Once he ___42___ sang a song in class in order to make a point clear. ___43___, I admired the fact that he would talk to students outside the classroom or talk with them ___44___ the telephone. Drinking coffee in the cafe, he would easily make friends with students. Sometimes he would ___45___ a student to a game of chess(國際象棋). ___46___, he would join students groups to discuss a variety of ___47___: agriculture, diving and mathematics. Many young people visited him in his office for ___48___ on their studies; others came to his home for social evenings. Finally, I was ___49___ by his lively sense of humor(幽默). He believed that no lesson is a success ___50___, during it the students and the professor ___51___ at least one loud ___52___. Through his sense of humor, he made learning more ___53___ and more lasting. If it is ___54___ that life makes a wise man smile and a foolish man cry, ___55___ my friend is indeed a wise man.
36. A. Although     B. When  C. Even if      D. Now that
37. A. basic    B. special       C. common     D. particular
38. A. attention      B. introduction       C. relation      D. devotion
39. A. insisted on   B. talked about       C. believed in D. agreed with
40. A. imaginative  B. ordinary     C. opposite     D. open
41. A. listening      B. understanding    C. information       D. discovery
42. A. also      B. nearly C. even   D. only
43. A. Later    B. Secondly    C. However    D. Therefore
44. A. with     B. by      C. from   D. on
45. A. invite   B. lead    C. prefer D. show
46. A. As a matter of fact      B. Later on 
C. Other times             D. In general
47. A. questions     B. subjects      C. matters       D. contents
48. A. support B. explanation C. experience  D. advice
49. A. disturbed     B. moved       C. attracted     D. defeated
50. A. for       B. until   C. since   D. unless 
51. A. hear     B. suggest       C. share   D. demand
52. A. laugh    B. cry     C. shout  D. question
53. A. helpful B. enjoyable   C. practical     D. useful
54. A. natural  B. normal       C. hopeful      D. true
55. A. so B. for      C. then    D. yet

Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports
When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach(教練) said that I had lots of potential(潛力), and I became captain of my ___36___. That was before all the fun was taken out of ___37___.
At first, everyone on the team got ___38___ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the ___39___ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have ___40___one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our ___41___. The coach was replaced.
The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game. All we did during practice was ___42___. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the ___43___. Of course, all teams run drills; they are ___44___. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble ___45___. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises ___46___ for 18-year-olds.
I was very thin ___47___ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too ___48___ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual ___49___.
Is all this pressure necessary? I ___50___ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s ___51___, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they ___52___ from the coach or their parents.
I continued playing football at school and ___53___ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing ___54___ him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I ___55___ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.
36. A. class     B. club    C. team   D. board
37. A. playing B. living  C. learning     D. working
38. A. great    B. equal  C. right   D. extra
39. A. business       B. struggle      C. attempt      D. pressure
40. A. free      B. private       C. good   D. basic
41. A. matches       B. courses       C. lessons       D. programs
42. A. jump    B. play    C. run     D. shoot
43. A. duty     B. meeting      C. operation    D. training
44. A. necessary     B. boring C. scientific    D. practical
45. A. speaking      B. moving      C. sleeping     D. breathing
46. A. used     B. intended     C. made  D. described
47. A. till       B. since   C. before D. because
48. A. full      B. tired   C. lazy    D. big
49. A. size      B. share   C. space  D. state
50. A. gave     B. kept    C. ended  D. picked
51. A. sad       B. shameful    C. silly    D. serious
52. A. received       B. suffered     C. brought      D. felt
53. A. reconsidered B. rediscovered      C. reformed    D. replaced
54. A. at  B. by      C. for      D. around
55. A. fell       B. stepped      C. slowed       D. calmed

Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents. The next day she drove her old car home along the road. ___36___ she found she got a flat. The 22-year-old student ___37___to stop her car by the side of the road in the winter night and opened the trunk. no ___38___ tire.
At this time, a car ___39___. Paul and Diane told Clay to ___40___ them to a service station near their ___41___. They arrived to see that it had no suitable tires to ___42___ with her car. “Follow us home,” said Paul.
The couple called around to find a tire. No___43___. They decided to let her use their own car. “Here,” Paul said, handing Clay a ___44___ of keys, “Take our car. We ___45___ be using it over the holiday. ”
Clay was ___46. “But I’m going all the way to South Carolina, and I’ll be gone for two weeks,” she ___47___ them.
“We know,” Paul said. “We’ll be ___48___ when you get back. Here’s our number if you need to ___49___ us. ”
Unable to believe her eyes, Clay watched as the ___50___ put her luggage into their car and then ___51___ her off. Two weeks later she ___52___ to find her old car cleaned inside and out with three new tires and the radio ___53___.
“Thank you so much,” she said. “How much do I ___54___ you?” “Oh, no,” Paul said, we don’t want any money. It’s our ___55___. ” Clay realized that while it might have been their pleasure, it was now her duty to pass on their “do unto others” spirit.
36. A. Suddenly     B. Finally       C. Immediately      D. Fortunately
37. A. afforded      B. wanted       C. allowed      D. managed
38. A. spare    B. free    C. full     D. empty
39. A. passed  B. stopped      C. paused       D. started
40. A. help     B. push   C. take    D. follow
41. A. garage  B. house  C. shop   D. hotel
42. A. agree    B. match C. go      D. deal
43. A. way      B. message     C. success       D. luck
44. A. set B. number      C. pair    D. chain
45. A. can’t    B. shouldn’t    C. mustn’t      D. won’t
46. A. satisfied       B. worried      C. astonished  D. disturbed
47. A. persuaded    B. advised      C. reminded    D. promised
48. A. happy   B. here    C. away   D. busy
49. A. get in touch with B. keep in touch with
C. be in touch with        D. put in touch with
50. A. repairmen    B. cleaners      C. friends       D. couple
51. A. sent      B. shook  C. watched     D. drove
52. A. shocked       B. happened    C. returned     D. came
53. A. loaded  B. fixed   C. tied     D. rebuilt
54. A. owe      B. lend    C. give    D. offer
55. A. wish     B. job     C. duty    D. pleasure

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. ___36___, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I ___37___ to see--or look at--on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter ___38___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On ___39___days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Sometimes ___40___out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ___41___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ___42___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ___43___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ___44___ her.
“Did she have an accident? Something ___45___?” I thought to myself about her ___46___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had ___47___ her. I began to realize that part of our ___48___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar ___49___: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ___50___walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ___51___markers in our lives. They add weight to our ___52___ of place and belonging.
Think about it. ___53___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by ___54___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though ___55___ person?
36. A. Make    B. Take   C. Give   D. Have
37. A. happened     B. wanted       C. used    D. tried
38. A. what     B. how    C. which D. when
39. A. sunny   B. rainy   C. cloudy       D. snowy
40. A. took     B. brought      C. carried       D. turned
41. A. Clearly B. Particularly       C. Luckily      D. Especially
42. A. believed       B. expressed   C. remembered      D. wondered
43. A. long     B. often   C. soon   D. much
44. A. respected     B. missed       C. praised       D. admired
45. A. better   B. worse  C. more   D. less
46. A. disappearance      B. appearance C. misfortune  D. fortune
47. A. forgotten     B. lost     C. known       D. hurt
48. A. happy   B. enjoyable   C. frequent     D. daily
49. A. friends  B. strangers    C. tourists       D. guests
50. A. regularly      B. actually      C. hardly D. probably
51. A. common      B. pleasant      C. important   D. faithful
52. A. choice  B. knowledge  C. decision     D. sense
53. A. Because       B. If       C. Although    D. However
54. A. keeping       B. changing    C. passing       D. mentioning
55. A. unnamed      B. unforgettable     C. unbelievable      D. unreal

“It was all his own idea,” says Pat, the wife of California high school football coach Bob Peters. Bob had ___36___ made a “motherhood contract(合同)”—declaring that for 70 days this summer he would ___37___  the care of their four children and all the housework. ___38___ he didn’t even know how to make coffee when he sighed, he was very confident.
After40 of the 70 days, he was ready to ___39___. “ I was beaten down, “ admits Bob. “Not only is motherhood a ___40___ task, it is an impossible job for any normal human being. ”
Bob and Pat were married in 1991. After the married, Pat ___41___ a secretary to help put him through university. ___42___ Bob has been the football coach while Pat raised the kids. ___43___ two years ago Pat went back to work. “ I had been ___44___ children so much,” she ___45___, “I couldn’t talk to a grown-up. ” She continued to run the household, ___46___ -- until Bob sighed the contract.
Bob tried hard to learn cooking, but the meals he prepared were ___47___. For the last three weeks, the family ___48___ a lot--- sometimes having MacDonald’s hamburgers for lunch and dinner.
___49___ housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean ___50___ the bed is made. “ I found ___51___ –I shut the doors,” he says. Soon the kids were wearing their shirts inside out. “When we went to ___52___ Pat at work, I made them wear their shirts 53 side out so they would look clean. ”
Now that Bob has publicly ___54___  he was wrong, he is ___55___ the child-raising and household tasks with Pat.
36. A. only     B. just     C. nearly D. ever
37. A. stick to B. set about    C. think about D. takeover
38. A. If  B. As      C. Since  D. Although
39. A. carry on       B. give up      C. break down       D. find out
40. A. strange B. pleasant      C. difficult     D. serious
41. A. sent      B. employed   C. learned from      D. worked as
42. A. In time B. Before long       C. Since then  D. Later on
43. A. Then    B. Thus   C. So      D. Still
44. A. near     B. after   C. about  D. around
45. A. insists   B. sighs   C. jokes   D. apologizes
46. A. besides B. therefore    C. however     D. otherwise
47. A. terrible B. tasty   C. expensive   D. special
48. A. starved B. traveled      C. worked out D. ate out
49. A. Due to  B. As for C. Along with D. Except for
50. A. until     B. before C. if D. unless
51. A. an easier way      B. a cheaper way    C. a cleaner way     D. a harder way
52. A. receive B. welcome    C. greet   D. fetch
53. A. good    B. wrong C. right   D. opposite
54. A. admitted      B. suggested   C. agreed D. explained
55. A. operating     B. realizing     C. sharing       D. performing

Not too long ago, an incident that happened at Walt Disney touched me greatly. A guest___36___ out of our Polynesian Village resort（度假勝地）at Walt Disney was asked how she ___37___ her visit. She told the front-desk clerk she had had a (n) ___38___ vacation, but was heartbroken about ___39___ several rolls of Kodak color film she had not yet ___40___. At that moment she was particularly ___41___ over the loss of the pictures she had shot at our Polynesian Luau, 42___ this was a memory she especially treasured.
Now, please understand that we have no written service rules___43___ lost photos in the park. 44___, the clerk at the front desk___45___ Disney’s idea of caring for our ___46___. She asked the woman to leave her a couple rolls of ___47___ film, promising she would take care of the rest of our show at Polynesian Luau.
Two weeks later the guest received a ___48___at her home. In it were photos of all the actors of our show, 49___ signed by each performer. There were also ___50___ of the public procession（游行隊伍）and fireworks in the park, taken by the front-desk clerk in her own ___51___ after work. I happened to know this ___52___ because this guest wrote us a letter. She said that ___53___ in her life had she received such good service from any business.
Excellent ___54___ does not come from policy (政策性的)handbooks. It comes from people who ___55___ —and from a culture that encourages and models that attitude.
36. A. working       B. checking    C. trying D. staying
37. A. expected      B. realized      C. paid    D. enjoyed
38. A. disappointing      B. wonderful  C. uncomfortable   D. important
39. A. taking   B. dropping    C. losing D. breaking
40. A. developed    B. taken  C. washed       D. loaded
41. A. silly     B. nervous      C. calm   D. sad
42. A. when    B. where C. as       D. which
43. A. covering      B. finding       C. making      D. keeping
44. A. Excitedly     B. Fortunately C. Therefore   D. Quietly
45. A. understood   B. reminded    C. trusted       D. discovered
46. A. workers       B. guests C. managers    D. clerks
47. A. printed B. shot    C. unused       D. recorded
48. A. film     B. card    C. camera       D. packet
49. A. frequently    B. personally  C. alone  D. actually
50. A. rules     B. pictures      C. handbooks  D. performances
51. A. case      B. work   C. time    D. position
52. A. story    B. place   C. photo  D. show
53. A. only     B. almost C. never  D. nearly
54. A. advice  B. experience  C. quality       D. service
55. A. care      B. serve   C. like     D. know

You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t ___36___carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a ___37___and you’re telling the TV ___38___what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very ___39___. In the first two years of the ___40___ in former Yugoslavia(前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were ___41___. What kind of people put themselves in danger to ___42___ pictures to our TV screens and ___43___ to our newspapers? Why do they do it?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s ___44___to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s ___45___ you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it ___46___ it is a war.”
But there are moments of ___47___. Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullet(子彈) are flying ___48___ your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling ___49___ after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be ___50___.”
“None of us believes that we’re going to ___51___,” adds Michael. But he always ___52___ a lucky charm(護身符) with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, ___53___, and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I ___54___ I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God ___55___, because you know he doesn’t believe you.”
36. A. simply  B. really  C. merely       D. even
37. A. crowd  B. house  C. battlefield   D. camera
38. A. producers    B. viewers      C. directors     D. actors
39. A. dangerous    B. exciting      C. normal       D. disappointing
40. A. stay      B. fight   C. war     D. life
41. A. injured B. buried C. defeated     D. saved
42. A. bring    B. show   C. take    D. make
43. A. scenes  B. passages     C. stories D. contents
44. A. belief   B. dream C. duty    D. faith
45. A. why     B. what   C. how    D. where
46. A. even so B. ever since   C. as if    D. even if
47. A. fear      B. surprise      C. shame D. sadness
48. A. into      B. around       C. past    D. through
49. A. returns B. goes    C. continues    D. occurs
50. A. there    B. away   C. out     D. home
51. A. leave    B. escape C. die      D. remain
52. A. hangs   B. wears  C. holds  D. carries
53. A. never   B. many times C. some time  D. seldom
54. A. consider      B. accept C. promise      D. guess
55. A. whispering   B. laughing     C. screaming   D. crying

When I was thirteen, my family moved from Boston to Tucson, Arizona. ___36___ the move, my father ___37___ us in the living-room on a freezing January night. My sisters and I sat around the fire, not ___38___ that the universe would suddenly change its course. “In May, we’re ___39___to Arizona.”
The words, so small, didn’t seem ___40___ enough to hold my new life. But the world changed and I awoke on a tram moving across the country. I watched the ___41___ change from green trees to flat dusty plains to high mountains as I saw strange new plants that ___42___ mysteries(奧秘) yet to come. Finally, we arrived and ___43___ into own new home.
___44___ my older sisters were sad at the loss of friends, I ___45___ explored(探索) our new surroundings.
One afternoon, I was out exploring ___46___ and saw a new kind of cactus(仙人掌). I crouched (蹲) down for a closer look. “You’d better not ___47___ that.”
I turned around to see an old woman.
“Are you new lo this neighborhood?” I explained that I was, ___48___, new to the entire state.
“My name is Ina Thorne. Have you got used to life in the ___49___? It must be quite a ___50___ after living in Boston.”
How could I explain how I ___51___ the desert? I couldn’t seem to find the right words.
“It’s vastness,” she offered. “That vastness ___52___ you stand on the mountains overlooking the desert — you can ___53___ how little you are in comparison with the world. ___54___, you feel that the possibilities are limitless.”
That was it. That was the feeling I’d bad ever since I’d first seen the mountains of my new home. Again, my ___55___ would change with just a few simple words.
“Would you like to come to my home tomorrow? Someone should teach you which plant you should and shouldn’t touch.”
36. A. During B. Until   C. Upon  D. Before
37. A. gathered      B. warned       C. organized   D. comforted
38. A. hoping B. admitting   C. realizing     D. believing   
39. A. going   B. moving      C. driving       D. flying
40. A. good    B. simple C. big     D. proper      
41. A. picture  B. ground       C. sense   D. area
42. A. suggested     B. solved C. discovered  D. explained
43. A. settled  B. walked       C. hurried       D. stepped
44. A. If  B. After   C. once   D. While
45. A. bitterly B. easily  C. proudly      D. eagerly
46. A as well   B. as usual      C. fight away  D. on time
47. A. move   B. dig     C. pull    D. touch
48. A. of course     B. in fact C. after all      D. at least
49. A. desert   B. city     C. state    D. country
50. A. luck     B. doubt  C. shock  D. danger
51. A. found   B. examined   C. watched     D. reached
52. A. why     B. when  C. how    D. where
53. A. prove   B. guess  C. sense   D. expect
54. A. However     B. Otherwise   C. Therefore   D. Meanwhile
55. A. idea     B. life     C. home  D. family 

In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job. I worked as a(n) ___36___ at Mr. Breen’s fruit shop. The fruit shop did ___37___ business. Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighbourhood, ___38___ he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr Breen ___39___ them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always ___40___ me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly long-standing customers, and I ___41___ they must have stayed faithful to him ___42___ he had promised to sell good quality ___43___. He had a way with them—I had to ___44___ that. He called every woman “madam” for a start, ___45___ those who clearly were not, but when he ___46___ it, it did not sound like flattery (奉承). It just sounded ___47___ in an old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter ___48___. If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few ___49___ about the weather, ___50___ he did, he would ask about their families or make ___51___, always cutting his cloth ___52___ his customers. Whatever their bills came to, be ___53___ gave them back the few odd pence (零錢), and I am sure they thought he was very generous (慷慨). But I thought he was the opposite. He never ___54___ anything away. He was always looking for ___55___ for nothing.
36. A. operator      B. assistant     C. waiter D. secretary
37. A. good    B. poor   C. big     D. usual
38. A. so B. when  C. therefore    D. but
39. A. sold     B. knew  C. gave   D. sent
40. A. making B. letting C. getting       D. keeping
41. A. wish     B. insist   C. declare       D. suppose
42. A. when    B. if C. because      D. though
43. A. food     B. fruit    C. vegetables  D. drink
44. A. admit   B. expect C. announce    D. promise
45. A. yet       B. only    C. just     D. even
46. A. told      B. said    C. spoke  D. talked
47. A. serious B. strange       C. polite  D. familiar
48. A. as well B. as usual      C. either  D. also
49. A. sayings B. questions    C. words D. speeches
50. A. and then      B. and so C. even if       D. but if
51. A. preparations B. jokes   C. repairs       D. friends
52. A. according to B. due to C. instead of   D. up to
53. A. never   B. ever    C. seldom       D. always
54. A. took     B. moved       C. threw  D. turned.
55. A. something    B. anything     C. somebody   D. anybody