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The other day, Dino, our neighbor across the road, saw me in front of our new home in Italy and called out, “Good evening!” His English, though _________, is much better than my Italian. “You OK?” he asked.

He had_________ me before, usually with a good morning or a good evening. Once, seeing him trying to_________a tall street lamp, I’d held the ladder for him to climb. But that was pretty much it for us: a general air of_________, nothing more.

I’ d just_________46 years living in New York City. But now I ‘ m living in a town in Italy’ s Puglia region, and everyone here except my family is a_________. And, living in the countryside as we do, I’ve started to feel pains of rural_________

This moment therefore seemed an _________to get to know Dino a little. I could have stayed behind our gates to talk with him through his gates. But_________I crossed the road toward him. I stood in the street talking with Dino and his wife, Grazia-I in English, they in Italian. One minute later they______________me in for a tour.

Here was a fig(无花果)tree, ____________ripe figs. Dino picked a few of the fruits, tore one in half, and put one half in his mouth. He handed me the other half and ____________ to me to follow suit, and I did. “Delicious!” I____________

I once saw a wonderful documentary about Gregory Peck. In it, the older actor travels to Ireland to meet his new grandson. But first, wandering a field, he ____________ a fig tree. He picks a fig and eats it with____________delight. To me, the____________ captures the sweetness of life and how such sweetness is all around us if only we’d ____________to reach out and taste it.

Dino and I ____________ this sequence with trees bearing plums and walnuts, too-he picking, I sampling. In spite of our____________in language neither of us knew many of the other’s words - nothing important was lost. Both of us understood all we needed to understand: that now we were ____________neighbors.

1.
A.advancedB.fluentC.limitedD.authentic
2.
A.greetedB.welcomedC.taughtD.understood
3.
A.sellB.fixC.practiceD.assist
4.
A.cooperationB.comprehensionC.strangenessD.friendliness
5.
A.startedB.continuedC.delayedD.concluded
6.
A.strangerB.colleagueC.friendD.guest
7.
A.belongingB.satisfactionC.isolationD.curiosity
8.
A.approachB.opportunityC.influenceD.example
9.
A.yetB.evenC.insteadD.otherwise
10.
A.awardedB.invitedC.entertainedD.amused
11.
A.bearingB.containingC.facingD.hiding
12.
A.signaledB.explainedC.announcedD.charged
13.
A.suspectedB.complainedC.attemptedD.declared
14.
A.deals withB.puts offC.happens uponD.cuts down
15.
A.slightB.ordinaryC.familiarD.obvious
16.
A.treeB.delightC.sceneD.neighbour
17.
A.urgeB.botherC.pretendD.plan
18.
A.practicedB.repeatedC.copiedD.exchanged
19.
A.differencesB.benefitsC.levelsD.difficulties
20.
A.braveB.elegantC.commonD.true

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