1 . A professor was teaching his class. All the students were listening to his _______ with great interest. But there was one student whose_______ of mind showed he was in a bad mood.
The professor took notice of this student on the first day but did not say anything. But when this _______ for a week, he asked. “You are _______ in spirits all the time. What is the matter? Have some trouble?”
“Sir, that...” the student said. “... something has happened in my past, _______ which I remain troubled. I don’t know what to do.”
The professor was a(n) _______ good person. He called the student at his house in the evening.
When the student _______ the professor’s house, he was greeted with a _______ welcome. The professor went to the kitchen and started making lemonade for his student. He _______put more salt in the lemonade.
__________ the student had a taste of it, his mouth became sour. __________ this, the professor asked, “Did you not like the lemonade?”
“No, sir, this is not the __________. Just a little more salt in the drink,” the student said. “Now it’s useless. I will throw it away.” The professor __________ his hand to get the glass of drink from the student. But the student refused, saying, “No, sir. If you add more__________, the taste will be fine.”
Upon hearing this, the professor became serious and said, “You are right. That’s what I want to__________. Just as salt cannot be taken out of the lemonade, those bad experiences also cannot __________ life. Adding more sugar can change the taste of lemonade. In a(n) __________way, sweetness has to be dissolved (溶解) in life to forget bad experiences. I want you to take the sweetness in your life into __________ now.”
To his relief, the student __________ him and decided from then on he would not be troubled by the __________.
1. A.custom | B.lecture | C.request | D.arrangement |
2. A.absence | B.attitude | C.presence | D.target |
3. A.held on | B.lived on | C.went on | D.moved on |
4. 5. A.due to | B.in spite of | C.in addition to | D.far from |
6. A.hardly | B.extremely | C.informally | D.previously |
7. A.arrived at | B.searched for | C.took over | D.escaped from |
8. A.rude | B.romantic | C.cold | D.warm |
9. A.purposely | B.absolutely | C.sadly | D.gratefully |
10. A.So long as | B.As soon as | C.Unless | D.Even if |
11. A.Feeling | B.Hearing | C.Seeing | D.Smelling |
12. A.deal | B.amount | C.luck | D.case |
13. A.reached | B.removed | C.released | D.relaxed |
14. 15. A.suffer from | B.get through | C.get across | D.break up |
16. A.result from | B.be separated from | C.recover from | D.be saved from |
17. A.ultimate | B.natural | C.original | D.similar |
18. A.energy | B.advice | C.account | D.effort |
19. A.confused | B.warned | C.understood | D.rejected |
20. A.mass | B.majority | C.duty | D.past |