About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman boarded and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I ___21____ her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her ____22____. I teased her by asking if she had a ___23___ for the bear. She laughed and said no.
About halfway through the flight she ___24____ over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (进行康复治疗). She ___25___ to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That ___26____ had led her down a dark ____27____ to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story. I was ____28____ at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to ____29___ it. At the end of the flight, she ___30____ me for listening to her.
A few years later, I got a ___31____ in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been years since we met on that plane. It is ___32____ how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had ____33____ to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have ____34___ that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get ___35___.
When I saw her, she was ____36____ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little ___37___ we had had turned her life around. She had boarded the plane ___38___ anything would work in her life, and my affirmation (肯定) of her as a person and of her ___39___ had given her the last bit of ___40___ she needed to work through her problems.
The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
小题1: | A.found | B.helped | C.recognized | D.noticed |
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小题2: | A.shape | B.size | C.weight | D.leg |
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小题3: | A.name | B.friend | C.ticket | D.cloth |
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小题4: | A.moved | B.leaned | C.looked | D.pulled |
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小题5: | A.agreed | B.learned | C.continued | D.refused |
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小题6: | A.manner | B.feeling | C.event | D.lifestyle |
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小题8: | A.disappointed | B.worried | C.surprised | D.blamed |
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小题9: | A.own | B.reach | C.leave | D.make |
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小题10: | A.criticized | B.avoided | C.thanked | D.remembered |
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小题11: | A.note | B.word | C.case | D.text |
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小题12: | A.effective | B.amazing | C.easy | D.clear |
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小题13: | A.managed | B.tried | C.decided | D.worked |
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小题14: | A.realized | B.produced | C.required | D.imagined |
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小题15: | A.through | B.along | C.together | D.off |
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小题16: | A.never | B.still | C.once | D.even |
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小题17: | A.expectation | B.explanation | C.information | D.conversation |
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小题18: | A.doubting | B.promising | C.believing | D.admitting |
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小题19: | A.condition | B.discoveries | C.criticism | D.possibilities |
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小题20: | A.delight | B.interest | C.strength | D.character |
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