—We were surprised to hear that the reason_______ she gave for her absence was______ her mother was ill.

—Yes，we saw her mother was at the supermarket that morning.

A．why；that                   B．which；that     C．that；because                    D．why；because

The day was Thankful Thursday, our “ regular day” of service. It’s a __36__tradition that my two little girls and I began years ago. On this __37__ Thursday, we had no idea exactly what we were going to do.

__38__ along a busy road, we prayed for guidance in search of __39__our weekly Act of Kindness. My girls were__40__, and started shouting “ McDonald’s” . Suddenly I realized that almost every crossing I__41__ was occupied by a beggar, and then it hit me! All these beggars must be hungry. Perfect! We were going to buy__42__for them.

It was a great way to__43__. The Act of Kindness was anonymous(匿名的)，and we loved what we saw in the back view mirror: a__44__and delighted person holding up his lunch bag and just looking at us__45__we drove off.

We had come to the end of our “ route” where there was a small woman standing there, asking for__46__. We handed her our final lunch bag, and then made a U-turn to head back in the opposite direction for home. Unfortunately, the light stopped us. I was __47__and didn’t know quite how to behave.

“No one has ever done anything like this for me before,” the woman said with__48__. I replied, “Well, I’m glad that we were the first one.”__49__ uneasy , and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, “So, when do you think you’ll eat your lunch?”

“Oh honey, I’m not going to__50__this lunch.” I was confused , and she continued , “I have a little girl of my own at home and she just __51__ McDonald’s , but I can never buy it for her because I just don’t have the __52__ . You know what… tonight she is going to have McDonald’s !”

So many times I had__53__whether our Acts of Kindness were too small or insignificant to really__54__any difference . Yet in that moment, I recognized the__55__of Mother Teresa’s words, “We cannot do great things---only small things with great love.”

Our holidays were coming to an end but we had not yet realized our plan to drive to Dalat. Our  1  about Dalat with its shining cherry blossoms (花) and scenic views were   2  us to start our journey.

Then one morning our dream  3. We hired a car and drove  4  to Dalat early in the morning. Splendid landscapes  5  on either side of the road   6   before us. The refreshing morning breeze was caressing (撫摸) our skin and in  7   spirits we were singing merrily.

When we reached Blao Pass, we saw a white  8  in front of us. We   9  down the pass. It seemed to us that the young girl in the white car did not want to be   10  as she was driving at full speed. Suddenly she lost  11  of her car; it turned to the left and crashed into the slope and  12  .

Quite frightened, we braked   13  and jumped out of our car. We turned her car over and pulled out the girl who was  14   in the car. The girl had narrowly escaped death. She was shivering like an aspen (白楊) leaf. In spite of her  15 , she looked very beautiful, just like an angel. When she had  16  from her panic, she timidly (膽小地) thanked us for having rescued her, then she looked at her flat  17  in despair.

Reading her thoughts, we took off our shirts and began to   18   the punctured tyre. We then put on the  19  wheel for her. As soon as the work had been done, we started our  20   again and followed Da Huong Lan—the girl we had helped.

1.                A．thoughts        B．ideas           C．suggestions    D．stories

2.                A．promising       B．telling          C．urging    D．refusing

3.                A．came true       B．woke up        C．took place D．broke out

4.                A．back           B．a(chǎn)gain           C．slowly    D．straight

5.                A．a(chǎn)t dusk         B．a(chǎn)t night         C．a(chǎn)t dawn   D．a(chǎn)t noon

6.                A．disappeared     B．unfolded        C．grown    D．developed

7.                A．strange         B．fresh           C．high D．low

8.                A．bus            B．car            C．dog  D．cat

9.                A．walked         B．ran            C．climbed  D．sped

10.               A．overtaken      B．beaten         C．discovered D．known

11.               A．a(chǎn)nger          B．control         C．life   D．memory

12.               A．left            B．stopped        C．returned  D．overturned

13.               A．highly          B．successfully     C．hard  D．hardly

14.               A．trapped        B．locked         C．thrown    D．found

15.               A．pleasure        B．death          C．shock D．wake

16.               A．came          B．recovered      C．learned   D．turned

17.               A．tyre           B．chair           C．car   D．leg

18.               A．repair          B．remove        C．throw D．check

19.               A．other          B．new           C．second-hand   D．spare

20.               A．journey        B．voyage         C．passage   D．umbrella