Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited (76) for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became (77) . When he saw a photograph booth nearby, he had (78) . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not (79) in the situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints that (80) even him. He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photo and handed them to a (81) behind the desk in the booth. " (82) you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously (83) someone, would you please give her this" he said. He then (84) his office in Morrison Building, (85) that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good lecture! He sat down with a smile.
A. hurt
B. encouraged
C. attracted
D. shocked
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Passage Three It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That’s more or less what happened the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty. "I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder." But Hyde couldn’t go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop the speeding car. As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sight was not that difficult. Every turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene. Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination. At that point he found another unit had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn’t needed. Now he was free to try to stop the driver of the Firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panic about. "Just about that time," Hyde says, "I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke and oil going everywhere. He’d blown his engine. Now he had to stop." "After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn’t have a driver’s license." That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty—a thousand dollars for the new engine—not to mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving. What is probably the best title for the article
A. Losing His Way
B. Going My Way
C. Fun All the Way
D. Help on the Way
Passage Four I was a freshman in college when I met the Whites. They were completely different from my own family, yet I felt at home with them immediately. Jane White and I became friends at school, and her family welcomed me like a long-lost cousin. In my family, it was always important to place blame when anything bad happened. "Who did this" my mother would scream about a dirty kitchen. "This is all your fault, Katharine," my father would insist when the cat got out or the dishwasher broke. From the time we were little, my sister, brothers and I told on each other. We set a place for blame at the dinner table. But the Whites didn’t worry about who had done what. They picked up the pieces and moved on with their lives. The beauty of this was driven home to me the summer Jane died. In July, the White sisters and I decided to take a car trip from their home in Florida to New York. The two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, were college students, and the youngest, Amy, had recently turned sixteen. Proud of having a new driver’s license, Amy was excited about practicing her driving on the trip. She showed off her license to everyone she met. The big sisters shared the driving of Sarah’s new car during the first part of the trip, but when they reached less crowded areas, they let Amy take over. Somewhere in South Carolina, we pulled off the highway to eat. After lunch, Amy got behind the wheel. She came to a crossroads with a stop sign. Whether she was nervous or just didn’t see the sign no one would ever know, but Amy continued into the crossroads without stopping. The driver of a large truck, unable to stop in time, ran into our car. Jane was killed immediately. I was slightly injured. The most difficult thing that I’ve ever done was to call the Whites to tell them about the accident and that Jane had died. Painful as it was for me to lose a good friend, I knew that it was far worse for them to lose a child. When Mr. and Mrs. White arrived at the hospital, they found their two daughters sharing a room. Sarah had a few cuts on the head; Amy’s leg was broken. They hugged us all and cried tears of sadness and of joy at seeing their daughters. They wiped away the girls’ tears and made a few jokes at Amy as she learned to use her crutches. To both of their daughters, and especially to Amy, over and over they simply said, "We’re so glad that you’re alive." I was astonished. No blame. No accusations. Later, I asked the Whites why they never talked about the fact that Amy was driving and had run a stop sign. Mrs. White said, "Jane’s gone, and we miss her terribly. Nothing we say or do will ever bring her back. But Amy has her whole life ahead of her. How can she lead a full and happy life if she feels we blame her for her sister’s death" They were right. Amy graduated from the University of California and got married several years ago. She works as a teacher of learning-disabled students. She’s also a mother of two little girls of her own, the elder one named Jane. The Whites did not blame Amy for Jane’s death because ______.
A. they didn’t want Amy to feel ashamed and sorry for the rest of her life
B. Amy was badly injured herself and they didn’t want to add to her pain
C. they didn’t want to blame their children in front of others
D. Amy was their youngest daughter and they loved her best
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited (76) for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became (77) . When he saw a photograph booth nearby, he had (78) . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not (79) in the situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints that (80) even him. He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photo and handed them to a (81) behind the desk in the booth. " (82) you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously (83) someone, would you please give her this" he said. He then (84) his office in Morrison Building, (85) that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good lecture! He sat down with a smile.
A. a question
B. a reason
C. an opinion
D. an idea
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited (76) for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became (77) . When he saw a photograph booth nearby, he had (78) . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not (79) in the situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints that (80) even him. He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photo and handed them to a (81) behind the desk in the booth. " (82) you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously (83) someone, would you please give her this" he said. He then (84) his office in Morrison Building, (85) that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good lecture! He sat down with a smile.
A. serious
B. difficult
C. regular
D. convenient