完形填空。      Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late
thirties that I made this important    1  : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry
if you    2   money.
     This is how I    3   with giving away. If an idea of improving the window display of a neighborhood store 
  4   to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the    5  . If a car accident happens, I think the    6   will be
needed, so I    7   them up and tell them about it, though I am not in    8   here. One discovery I made about
this world is to give    9   getting something back, though the   10  often comes in an unexpected form.
     One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important   11  letter to my home, though it was   12  
to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of   13 .
     More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was   14 . I was told at the window
that there were   15  boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long   16  list. As I was about to   17 ,
the postmaster appeared in the   18 . "Wasn"t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special
delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well, certainly you are going to have a box in this post office   19  we
make one for you. You don"t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get   20  but complaints."

(     )1. A. decision    (     )2. A. earn        (     )3. A. experimented (     )4. A. refers      (     )5. A. postmaster  (     )6. A. police      (     )7. A. put         (     )8. A. need        (     )9. A. within      (     )10. A. return     (     )11. A. curious    (     )12. A. realized   (     )13. A. invitation (     )14. A. dealing    (     )15. A. enough     (     )16. A. admitting  (     )17. A. leave      (     )18. A. window     (     )19. A. in case    (     )20. A. anything

B. research    B. lack        B. connected   B. occurs      B. headmaster  B. soldiers    B. turn        B. trouble     B. without     B. goal       B. immediate   B. addressed     B. apology   B. providing  B. some        B. relating     B. shout      B. doorway     B. now that    B. everything

C. speech         C. spend          C. combined       C. sticks         C. storekeeper    C. sellers       C. call           C. common        C. for           C. process       C. special       C. forgotten    C. instruction  C. doing        C. no              C. examining      C. guess         C. library        C. even if         C. nothing

D. discovery       D. steal           D. agreed           D. leads           D. policeman       D. owners        D. make           D. charge          D. to               D. concern        D. heavy          D. remembered            D. appreciation D. starting       D. more             D. waiting         D. conduct         D. yard            D. as if           D. something