【推荐1】阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
“They’re going to kick me out of my own home,” said Karl Berger, 86 years old. Karl is a widower with no living children. When Karl’s wife died a couple of years ago, he told the Social Security Administration to stop
____ monthly checks to his wife. But the agency
____ to send the checks. Karl called again; a clerk said not to
____ He told Karl to mail a follow-up
____ that included his wife's
____ of death. But the checks continued to come. Karl needed the money,
____ he cashed his wife’s checks.
When SSA
____ realized its mistake, it sent Karl a letter saying that he
____ SSA $5,900 plus interest. Karl receives only $12,000 a year, which is slightly
____ poverty level. The only
____ that he ever had--$5,000--was
____ on his wife’s funeral. He fought on Iwo Jima, site of one of the most furious battles of World War II. The battle left him
____in one ear and almost blind in one eye.
His small house used to be in a good neighborhood. He takes the bus once a week to visit his wife's
____ The rest of his time is spent at home, where he carves
____ military figures that he donates to a local charity. The charity
____the carvings and uses the money to help feed the homeless.
SSA gave Karl six months to pay the debt in
____ Otherwise, the SSA letter said, the agency would seize his home. Karl wrote back, asking if it would be okay to
____ $30 a month. That was all he could
____“That’s insufficient,” said William Shatner, an SSA agent. “We know that he is a war veteran, but that doesn’t entitle him to
____the debt . He knew that his wife was dead, yet he cashed her monthly
____ . That is fraud, pure and simple.”
1. | A．remaining | B．sending | C．giving | D．transporting |
2. | A．continued | B．forget | C．wanted | D．asked |
3. | A．irritate | B．bother | C．upset | D．worry |
4. | A．notice | B．message | C．letter | D．essay |
5. 6. 7. | A．finally | B．gradually | C．suddenly | D．immediately |
8. | A．held | B．donated | C．owned | D．owed |
9. | A．within | B．above | C．below | D．beyond |
10. | A．fortunes | B．possessions | C．bills | D．savings |
11. | A．spent | B．consumed | C．wasted | D．deserted |
12. | A．injured | B．lame | C．disabled | D．deaf |
13. | A．home | B．grave | C．house | D．room |
14. | A．woolen | B．golden | C．silken | D．wooden |
15. | A．sells | B．takes | C．buys | D．exchanges |
16. | A．common | B．full | C．astonish | D．brief |
17. | A．supply | B．cost | C．pay | D．devote |
18. | A．offer | B．prefer | C．provide | D．afford |
19. | A．cancel | B．avoid | C．free | D．decrease |
20. | A．checks | B．expenses | C．salaries | D．Numbers |
