About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman boarded and sat across the aisle (过道) from me. I ___21____ her for two reasons. She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her ____22____. I teased her by asking if she had a ___23___ for the bear. She laughed and said no.
About halfway through the flight she ___24____ over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab (进行康复治疗). She ___25___ to share her life story with me. She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub. That ___26____ had led her down a dark ____27____ to drugs and alcohol. As I listened to her story. I was ____28____ at all she had gone through. I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to ____29___ it. At the end of the flight, she ___30____ me for listening to her.
A few years later, I got a ___31____ in the mail saying, “Wow, it’s been years since we met on that plane. It is ___32____ how you touched my life.” She went on to tell me that she had ____33____ to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station. She felt she had achieved things she could not have ____34___ that day on the plane. We agreed to set up a time to get ___35___.
When I saw her, she was ____36____ the attractive young woman I remembered. She told me that that little ___37___ we had had turned her life around. She had boarded the plane ___38___ anything would work in her life, and my affirmation (肯定) of her as a person and of her ___39___ had given her the last bit of ___40___ she needed to work through her problems.
The young woman taught me it’s never too late to make a new start in life.
| 小题1: | | A．found | B．helped | C．recognized | D．noticed |
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| 小题2: | | A．shape | B．size | C．weight | D．leg |
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| 小题3: | | A．name | B．friend | C．ticket | D．cloth |
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| 小题4: | | A．moved | B．leaned | C．looked | D．pulled |
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| 小题5: | | A．agreed | B．learned | C．continued | D．refused |
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| 小题6: | | A．manner | B．feeling | C．event | D．lifestyle |
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| 小题8: | | A．disappointed | B．worried | C．surprised | D．blamed |
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| 小题9: | | A．own | B．reach | C．leave | D．make |
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| 小题10: | | A．criticized | B．avoided | C．thanked | D．remembered |
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| 小题11: | | A．note | B．word | C．case | D．text |
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| 小题12: | | A．effective | B．amazing | C．easy | D．clear |
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| 小题13: | | A．managed | B．tried | C．decided | D．worked |
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| 小题14: | | A．realized | B．produced | C．required | D．imagined |
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| 小题15: | | A．through | B．along | C．together | D．off |
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| 小题16: | | A．never | B．still | C．once | D．even |
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| 小题17: | | A．expectation | B．explanation | C．information | D．conversation |
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| 小题18: | | A．doubting | B．promising | C．believing | D．admitting |
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| 小题19: | | A．condition | B．discoveries | C．criticism | D．possibilities |
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| 小题20: | | A．delight | B．interest | C．strength | D．character |
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