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For years now, I have held the hands of the dying. People often ask me how I can stand to be around so much suffering. They don’t understand that if you have the courage to look 1 suffering, you can find happiness. Sam taught me this.

An unlikely teacher, this baby of mine.

One of the doctors said I couldn’t take him home from hospital after he was born. Disappointment and fear 2 me. The doctor said frankly, “Your baby is 3 mentally disabled. He will probably never roll over, never sit, never crawl, never walk or talk.” Then he 4 me to try and have more children and place Sam in an institution. I stopped listening and 5 . I pulled the curtain between me and the world and began to cry as quietly as I could.

For the first week I 6 every day to stand and stare silently through the nursery window, 7 to hold and comfort that baby and myself. After that I would cry for hours more. 8 by the beginning of the second week, I stopped crying. Sam needed me.

My little boy, 9 with a brain disorder and sight and hearing damage, came home after one month’s stay in hospital. Sam’s life has not gone 10 . Crayons (蜡笔) never seemed a natural 11 in his hand. The sound of the ice cream truck never 12 his ears to cheer him on a summer day. No one ever 13 him to play on the ball teams thrown together in the street by the neighborhood kids. Yet he has disapproved the 14 dropped upon him by a medical community 15 faith in the spirit of one small boy.

With countless hours of treatment 16 , love, encouragement and mostly his own unbelievable 17 , he learned to speak, read, write, and at the age nine walk on his own. Interestingly, as Sam learned to walk, I 18 my own independence. I began to find the hidden spirited person within myself. That kind of spirit has 19 me through a divorce, college, and a career in nursing. It has given me the courage to change my life from one of 20 comfort to one of rich love.

1. A. through B. into C. over D. beyond

2. A. beat B. struck C. stuck D. prevented

3. A. partly B. temporarily C. severely D. slightly

4. A. hoped B. persuaded C. supported D. advised

5. A. turned back B. turned away

C. turned down D. turned up

6. A. returned B. cried C. left D. drove

7. A. waiting B. longing C. refusing D. struggling

8. A. Therefore B. Then C. But D. Thus

9. A. stricken B. combined C. struck D. connected

10. A. quickly B. quietly C. secretly D. easily

11. A. tool B. fit C. gift D. toy

12. A. touched B. returned C. reached D. told

13. A. begged B. arranged C. advised D. chose

14. A. suggestions B. limitations C. instructions D. questions

15. A. keeping B. having C. holding D. lacking

16. A. sessions B. operations

C. separations D. communications

17. A. action B. intelligence

C. motivation D. gift

18. A. recovered B. discovered C. defended D. admitted

19. A. carried B. pulled C. pushed D. took

20. A. helpless B. countless C. fruitless D. endless

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Wearing a tie was originally the mark of Britain’s most powerful classes. This made the tie itself a symbol of power and respect and led to it being 1 by a much larger group – people who work in 2 .

You cannot wear a tie if you work with 3 . So wearing a tie became a sign that you were a man who used your 4 to make a living, rather than your hands. It showed you were serious. It showed you were a 5 . It 6 that those who wanted a job in business had to wear one. It was just 7 to take a man seriously if he wasn’t wearing that piece of colored silk around his neck.

This is 8 millions of people came to be wearing ties across the world. They are part of the 9 of business.

“Ties offer a point of 10 ,” says John Milne, head of the British Guild of Tie Makers. “They give each person a chance to say something about their own personality.”

11 if you happen to meet a man with a very 12 colored tie, there is a good chance that he is the office joker. There is 13 a good chance that he will be wearing brightly colored socks.

But what is the 14 of the tie? The signs are not promising. Tie-wearing seems to be 15 among the new type of entrepreneurs (创业者) in Internet and new technology industries. Many political leaders, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now go 16 ties. This shows they are men of the people – and not the people who wear ties.

Up until around 1960, it was common for men across the Western world to wear 17 as part of their business uniform. That 18 with the election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency of the United States. Kennedy never wore a hat; in fact, his nickname was “hatless Jack”. Seeing that the most powerful man in the world did not have to wear a hat, millions of other men 19 that they did not have to either. Hats simply disappeared across the Western world. Perhaps “tieless Tony” (Tony Blair) will have the same 20 as “hatless Jack”.

1. A. admitted B. reserved C. shared D. adopted

2. A. business B. professions C. fashion D. entertainment

3. A. computers B. machinery C. nature D. materials

4. A. brain B. creativity C. words D. skills

5. A. talent B. member C. success D. professional

6. A. meant B. showed C. required D. confirmed

7. A. unwise B. likely

C. impossible D. acceptable

8. A. where B. because C. how D. when

9. A. uniform B. rule C. secret D. requirement

10. A. difference B. trend C. style D. position

11. A. Since B. Yet C. While D. So

12. A. strangely B. brightly C. dark D. strong

13. A. very B. also C. seldom D. not

14. A. rule B. change C. future D. end

15. A. casual B. common C. impractical D. rare

16. A. without B. with C. for D. off

17. A. ties B. suits C. hats D. bows

18. A. turned B. connected C. changed D. started

19. A. decided B. noticed C. doubted D. expected

20. A. aim B. experience C. function D. effect