Question

The Bag Lady

She used to sleep in the Fifth Street Post Office. I could smell her before I rounded the entrance to where she slept. I smelled the   1  liquid coming from her dirty clothing and her nearly toothless mouth. If she was not   2  , she whispered continuously.

Now they close the post office at six to keep the homeless   3  , so she rolls herself up on the sidewalk,  4   to herself.

One Thanksgiving we had so much food   5   over, I packed it up, excused myself from the others and   6   over to Fifth Street.

It was a freezing night. Leaves were flying around the streets and hardly   7   was out, all but a few of the luckless in some   8   home or shelter. But I knew I would find her.

1,3,5

She was dressed as she always was,  9   in summer: the warm woolly rags   10   her old, bent body. Her thin hands held the old shopping cart, leaning against a wire fence in front of the playground next to the post office. “Why didn’t she   11   some place more protected from the   12  ?” I thought, and was sure she was so crazy she did not have the   13   to hide in a doorway.

I pulled my shiny car to the sidewalk, rolled down the window and said, “Mother … would you …” and was   14   at the word “Mother.” But she was in some way I couldn’t   15  .

I said, again, “Mother, I’ve   16   you some food. Would you like some turkey and apple pies?”

 17 this the old woman looked at me and said quite   18  , her two loose lower teeth sticking out as she spoke, “Oh, thank you very much, but I’m quite full now. Why don’t you take it to someone who really   19  it?” Her words were clear and her manners were polite. Then I was   20  . Her head sank into her rags again.

1．A．pleasant                B．a(chǎn)wful                  C．moving               D．weak

1,3,5

2．A．a(chǎn)shamed               B．a(chǎn)live                    C．a(chǎn)wake                 D．a(chǎn)sleep

3．A．in                         B．out                      C．off                      D．up

4．A．talking                  B．walking               C．helping                D．lying

5．A．taken                    B．gone                   C．left                     D．handed

6．A．flew                     B．moved                 C．ran                     D．drove

7．A．a(chǎn)nyone                  B．everyone             C．no one                D．some one

8．A．cold                      B．warm                  C．dark                    D．bright

9．A．only                      B．just                     C．even                   D．like

10．A．wrapping up        B．dressing in           C．keeping on           D．making of

11．A．buy                     B．rent                     C．choose                D．measure

12．A．robbers               B．poverty               C．embarrass           D．wind

13．A．sense                  B．a(chǎn)bility                  C．a(chǎn)dvice                 D．chance

14．A．satisfied              B．moved                 C．shocked              D．disappointed

15．A．see                     B．grasp                  C．hear                    D．touch

16．A．brought               B．sent                    C．left                     D．collected

17．A．Like                    B．On                      C．For                     D．At

18．A．clearly                 B．rudely                 C．lightly                 D．sadly

19．A．knows                B．needs                  C．finds                   D．has

20．A．satisfied          B．a(chǎn)ngry            C．dismissed        D．delighted

Answer 1

1—5 B D B A C     6—10 D A B C A     11—15 C D A C B     16—20 A D A B C