________ they heard the shout for help，they rushed out.

1. A.
   Immediately
2. B.
   The moment
3. C.
   The minute
4. D.
   All the above

_____ the woman entered the office, Tom’s eyes lit up.

1. A.
   Immediately
2. B.
   Before
3. C.
   For
4. D.
   With

A good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years. She regretted   41   and would have done   42   to have   43   the words. What she said hurt the friend so much that this good woman was herself   44   for the pain she caused. In an effort to   45   what she had done, she went to an older, wiser woman in the village, explained her   46  , and asked for advice.

Listening to her, the older woman   47   the younger woman’s distress and knew she must help her. She also knew she could   48   relieve her pain,   49   she could teach. She knew the outcome would   50   the character of the younger woman. She said, “Tonight, take your best feather pillows and put a single feather on the   51   of each house in town before the   52  .”

The young woman hurried home to prepare for her task, even though the feather pillows were very dear to her. All night long, she labored alone in the   53  . Finally the sky was getting light: she placed the last feather on the steps of the last house. Just as the sun rose, she returned to the older woman,

“Now,” said the wise woman, “Go back and   54   your pillows with the feather you have put on the steps. Then everything will be as it was before.

“You know that’s   55  ! The wind blew each feather as fast as I placed them on the doorsteps!” The young woman was surprised.

“That’s true,” said the older woman. “Never forget. Each of your words is like a   56   in the wind. Once   57  , no amount of effort,   58   how heartfelt or sincere, can   59   return them to your mouth. Choose your words well and   60   them most of all in the presence of those you love.”

I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in   36   for 17 years, I had no   37 about my ability to hold their attention and to 38 on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

  I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “  39！” The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat   40 about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness （尷尬）was over, I quickly  41 calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect ---perhaps  42  their admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.

  My students 43 diaries. However, as I read them, the happy mood was gradually   44  by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. 45 her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a 46  theme（主題）. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical（哲學(xué)的） framework of Western thought and laid the historical   47 for all the works we’ll study in class,” I complained. “How   48 they say I didn’t teach them anything?”

  It was a long term, and it   49   became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as   50  of my students. I thought a teachers’ job was to raise   51 questions and provide enough background so that students could   52 their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide   53   information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

54  , I also learnt a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students made me a   55  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

One day I hopped in a taxi and we__36__for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when __37__ a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and __38__ the other car by __39__ inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and __40__ at the guy. And I mean，he was really__41__. So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost __42__ your car and sent us to the __43__!” This is when my taxi driver taught me __44__ I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”

He __45__ that many people are like garbage__46__. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of __47__. As their garbage piles __48__, they need a place to __49__ it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and __50__ it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that __51__ people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's __52__ short to wake up in the morning with __53__. So....Love the people who treat you right. __54__ for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent __55__ you take it!