1 . I was having a period of bad health. I had one operation after another. I was falling _______ faster than the doctors could put me back together. But I just couldn’t bear the operation, the hospital stay, the long recovery and the physical therapy(康复治疗). I told my doctor I was going to try _______ else.
I’d discovered that walking gave me a little _______. So I started walking. The first day, my wife _______ off our steep Silver Lake hill to a flat street. She got me out of the car, and I walked about two blocks _______ asking to be taken home. The next day, I walked about four _______.
Slowly, feeling a little _______ every day, I began to walk a mile or more. I even _______ some hills to my route. I became interested in the network of public stairways around Silver Lake I made a _______ of it and walked every public staircase in Silver Lake. That went pretty well, so I ________ onto Echo Park. I was feeling better, so I kept going. The search finally ________ “Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles’ ”a book ________ in the spring of 2010. By then, I had ________. I’d been walking at least an hour a day for three years. My life ________ returned to normal.
In three years of walks, I’ve met dozens of people who’d had ________ experiences of rebirth or recovery. One man told me he’d lost 80 pounds walking the secret stairs and was dating for the first time in a decade. One woman told me she’d ________ knee operation. Another told me she’d been ________ to start ballroom dancing again.
All I’d ________ from the walks was relief from pain. What I got was ________, community and a whole new experience of my city. Out of the car, on my feet and moving at walking pace, I ________ Los Angeles for the first time.
1. A.away | B.apart | C.asleep | D.about |
2. A.everything | B.nothing | C.something | D.anything |
3. A.courage | B.confidence | C.relief | D.delight |
4. 5. A.then | B.before | C.until | D.while |
6. A.miles | B.kilometers | C.blocks | D.streets |
7. A.happier | B.calmer | C.faster | D.stronger |
8. A.found | B.added | C.challenged | D.climbed |
9. A.review | B.search | C.goal | D.task |
10. A.moved | B.worked | C.carried | D.brought |
11. A.put into | B.knocked into | C.broke into | D.turned into |
12. A.bought | B.formed | C.published | D.created |
13. A.picked up | B.brought up | C.went up | D.kept up |
14. A.generally | B.recently | C.gradually | D.effectively |
15. A.same | B.particular | C.extra | D.similar |
16. A.received | B.avoided | C.suffered | D.stood |
17. A.able | B.worried | C.likely | D.anxious |
18. A.benefited | B.attempted | C.dreamed | D.sought |
19. A.home | B.neighborhood | C.success | D.friendship |
20. A.caught sight of | B.thought highly of | C.fell in love with | D.settled down in |