Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It

Like most people, I was brought up to look upon lifeas a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important     : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You needn’t worry if you       money.

        This is howI      with giving-away. If an idea for improvingthe window display of a neighborhood store     in mymind, I step in and make the     to the storekeeper.If an accident takes place, the     of which I thinkthe local police could use, I     him up and tellhim about it, though I am not in     here. I found arule about this world is to give     gettingsomething back, though the     often comes in anunexpected form.

         One Sundaymorning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home,though it was     to me at my office. I wrote thepostmaster a note of     . More than a year later Ineeded a post-office box for a new business I was     .I was told at the window that there were     boxesleft, and that my name would have to go on a long     list.As I was about to be      , the postmasterappeared in the     . “Wasn’t it you that wrote usthat letter a year ago about delivering an      deliveryto your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box inthis post office      we make one specificallyfor you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get     butcomplaints.”

1.A. difference     B. research                 C.speech                    D.discovery

2.A. earn                     B.lack                          C.spend                      D.steal

3.A. experienced      B.connected              C.cooperated            D.experimented

4.A. strikes                  B.flashes                     C.happens                  D.attempts

5.A. appeal                 B.request                   C.suggestion              D.demand

6.A. story                    B.damage                   C.challenge                D.material

7.A. call                       B.hold                         C.cheer                      D.pick

8.A. possession          B.trouble                    C.place                       D.charge

9.A. plus                      B.without          C.for          D. before

10.A. process             B.goal                          C.return           D. concern

11.A. replied              B.addressed              C.driven                     D.brought

12.A. invitation          B.apology                   C.complaint               D.appreciation

13.A. discussing         B.providing                C.applying                  D.starting

14.A. enough             B.extra                        C.no                            D.other

15.A. admitting          B.relating          C. buying                     D.waiting

16.A. positive             B.shocked                  C.discouraged          D. optimistic

17.A. doorway           B.window                   C.home                       D.yard

18.A. unfamiliar         B.unexpected           C.unknown                D.uncertain

19.A. in case               B.now that                 C.even if                     D.rather

20.A. nothing             B.something              C.anything                 D.everything

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1.D

2.B

3.A

4.B

5.C

6.A

7.A

8.D

9.B

10.C

11.B

12.D

13.D

14.C

15.D

16.C

17.A

18.B

19.C

20.A

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