阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Many years ago, I owned a service station and roadhouse on the main road between Melbourne and Adelaide.
One very cold, wet night at about 3:30 a.m., there was a
____ on the front door of our house. A young man, wet from
____ to toe, explained that he had
____ out of petrol about 30 km up the road. He had left his pregnant(怀孕的)wife and his two children
____at the car and said that he would hitchhike(搭便车)back.
Once I had
____ a can with petrol, I took him back to his car where his two-year-old and four-year-old children were both
____ , saying that they were cold. Once the car had started, I suggested that he
____ me back.
Before leaving, I had turned the heater
____ in the roadhouse, so that when we went in, it was nice and
____ While the little ones played and ran
____ , I prepared bread and butter for the children, and hot chocolate for the
____ It was about 5 a. m. before they
____. The young fellow asked me how much he
____me and I told him that the
petrol pump(加油泵)had
____ $ 15. He offered to pay“call-out fee”, but I wouldn’t accept it.
About a month later, I received a
____ from interstate, a large bus company that we bad been trying to
____ to stop off at our roadhouse for a long time, It
____ out that the young fellow I had helped was its general manager, the most
____ person in the company.
In his letter, he thanked me again and
____ me that, from then on, all their buses would stop at my service station, In this
____ , a little bit of kindness was rewarded with a huge amount of benefits.
16. 17. A.finger | B.shoulder | C.head | D.hand |
18. A.driven | B.used | C.come | D.run |
19. A.away | B.behind | C.over | D.out |
20. A.supplied | B.poured | C.equipped | D.filled |
21. A.sleeping | B.crying | C.quarrelling | D.fighting |
22. A.allow | B.ring | C.lead | D.follow |
23. 24. A.heat | B.hot | C.warm | D.attractive |
25. A.around | B.inside | C.nearby | D.along |
26. A.drivers | B.guests | C.customers | D.adults |
27. A.left | B.arrived | C.ate | D.disappeared |
28. A.gave | B.paid | C.owed | D.offered |
29. A.appeared | B.exhibited | C.calculated | D.shown |
30. A.call | B.letter | C.check | D.notice |
31. A.get | B.force | C.require | D.hope |
32. A.pointed | B.turned | C.worked | D.found |
33. A.generous | B.successful | C.serious | D.powerful |
34. A.praised | B.persuaded | C.informed | D.convinced |
35. A.lesson | B.business | C.aspect | D.case |