Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important
: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You needn’t worry if you
money.
This is how I
with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store
in my mind, I step in and make the
to the storekeeper. If an accident takes place, the
of which I think the local police could use, I
him up and tell him about it, though I am not in
here. I found a rule about this world is to give
getting something back, though the
often comes in an unexpected form.
One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home, though it was
to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of
. More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was
. I was told at the window that there were
boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long
list. As I was about to be
, the postmaster appeared in the
. “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering an
delivery to your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office
we make one specifically for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get
but complaints.”
| 小题1: | | A．difference | B．research | C．speech | D．discovery |
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| 小题2: | | A．earn | B．lack | C．spend | D．steal |
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| 小题3: | | A．experienced | B．connected | C．cooperated | D．experimented |
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| 小题4: | | A．strikes | B．flashes | C．happens | D．attempts |
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| 小题5: | | A．appeal | B．request | C．suggestion | D．demand |
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| 小题6: | | A．story | B．damage | C．challenge | D．material |
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| 小题7: | | A．call | B．hold | C．cheer | D．pick |
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| 小题8: | | A．possession | B．trouble | C．place | D．charge |
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| 小题9: | | A．plus | B．without | C．for | D．before |
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| 小题10: | | A．process | B．goal | C．return | D．concern |
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| 小题11: | | A．replied | B．addressed | C．driven | D．brought |
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| 小题12: | | A．invitation | B．apology | C．complaint | D．appreciation |
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| 小题13: | | A．discussing | B．providing | C．applying | D．starting |
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| 小题14: | | A．enough | B．extra | C．no | D．other |
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| 小题15: | | A．admitting | B．relating | C．buying | D．waiting |
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| 小题16: | | A．positive | B．shocked | C．discouraged | D．optimistic |
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| 小题17: | | A．doorway | B．window | C．home | D．yard |
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| 小题18: | | A．unfamiliar | B．unexpected | C．unknown | D．uncertain |
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| 小题19: | | A．in case | B．now that | C．even if | D．rather |
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| 小题20: | | A．nothing | B．something | C．anything | D．everything |
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