I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at ___1___ on the shelves, the man behind the counter, ___2___, asked if I’d like ___3___. I needed to start ___4___ for college, so I said yes. I ___5___ after school and during summers for the lowest wages and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs; I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and even made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most ___6___. One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost ___7___ we had at that time ___8___ and found other books we could order. She left the store less ___9___. I’ve always remembered the ___10___ I felt in having helped her.
Years later, as a ___11___ in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his fingers connected, webline. His family could not ___12___ a corrective operation, and the boy lived in ___13___, hiding his hand in his pocket.
I ___14___ my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the ___15___ for free.
I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his ___16___ hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of ___17___.
In the past, while I was ___18___, I always sense I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, ___19___ I feel as if I work for the ___20___, helping them make sense of the world.
1. A. maps      B. titles   C. articles     D. reports
2. A. the reader      B. the college student   C. the shop owner  D. the customer
3. A. a book    B. a job   C. some tea     D. any help
4. A. planning B. saving C. preparing   D. studying
5. A. read       B. studied       C. cooked       D. worked
6. A. boring    B. surprising   C. satisfying   D. disappointing
7. A. anything B. something  C. nothing      D. everything
8. A. in need   B. in all   C. in order      D. in store
9. A. worried  B. satisfied     C. excited       D. puzzled
10. A. pride    B. failure C. regret  D. surprise
11. A. doctor   B. store owner       C. bookseller  D. TV reporter
12. A. pay      B. cost    C. afford D. spend
13. A. shame   B. honour       C. horror D. danger
14. A. advised B. forced      C. persuaded   D. permitted
15. A. action   B. program     C. treatment    D. operation
16. A. repaired       B. connected   C. injured       D. improved
17 A. pleasure B. sadness     C. interest       D. disappointment
18. A. at the TV station  B. in the Students Union
C. at the U. S. Forest Service       D. at McCarley’s Bookstore
19. A. so B. and     C. but    D. because
20. A. readers B. viewers      C. customers   D. passengers
1—5BCBBD  6—10CDDAA 11—15DCACD 16—20 AADCB
 本文敘述作者讀大學(xué)時(shí)在外做兼職時(shí)所經(jīng)歷的一些事情以及對(duì)現(xiàn)在工作的影響。
1. B。當(dāng)你到書店的書架前，你首先看到的是書的“名稱/題目”。
2. C。柜臺(tái)后面一般是售貨員或店老板，因?yàn)檫x項(xiàng)中沒有售貨員，因此答案是“店老板”。
3. B。根據(jù)下文作者的回答可知老板問作者是否想找“一份工作”。
4. B。因?yàn)樯洗髮W(xué)需要錢，所以需要“積攢，節(jié)省”。
5. D。根據(jù)上文“找工作”可得出答案。
6. C。根據(jù)下文，尤其是 I felt in having helped her 這句話可以猜出答案。
7. D。根據(jù)下文和本句中的副詞 almost(我?guī)缀醢褧昀锼械臅冀o她看了)可得出答案。
8. D。文章開頭第一句就交代了“書店”，上下文都可以證實(shí)。
9. A。根據(jù)上文作者的熱情服務(wù)把書店幾乎所有的書都拿給她看，以及下文作者對(duì)自己工作的滿意心情可以判斷，那位婦女走時(shí)是帶著“不太著急的”心情離開的。
10. A。從上文的敘述和下文的 I felt in having helped her 可知作者因幫助了這樣一位婦女而感到很“自豪”。
11. D。根據(jù)下文的 NBC News 得出答案是電視臺(tái)記者。
12. C。因?yàn)槭且泼�，因此判斷他家里“付不起”矯正的手術(shù)費(fèi)。
13. A。因?yàn)槭质菤埣玻俑鶕?jù)后面“把手藏在口袋里”判斷答案為“害羞”。
14. C。根據(jù)下文“我寫的故事被播出了”可知我“說服”了老板讓我寫這個(gè)故事。
15. D。從上文提到“矯正手術(shù)”得出答案(from www.nmet168.com)。
16. A。從上文，手術(shù)后在醫(yī)院康復(fù)期間，作者看望了那個(gè)小孩，他做的第一件事就是舉起他那動(dòng)手術(shù)“修復(fù)過”的手。
17. A�？吹侥莻�(gè)小孩舉起他的手，我有一種“高興”的感覺。
18. D。從文章的第一句話可得出答案。
19. C。從句子的前后意思可知表示轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。
20. B。因?yàn)樽髡攥F(xiàn)在是一位電視工作者，所做的工作是為“看電視的觀眾”而做的。
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A．leaveB．go inC．prepareD．practise
小題16:
A．take backB．put offC．give upD．put down
小題17:
A．uglyB．pleasedC．sadD．pretty
小題18:
A．noticedB．lovedC．missedD．hated
小題19:
A．thoughtB．hopedC．wishedD．regretted
小題20:
A．shakingB．bendingC．walkingD．stopped

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