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 36 : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 37 money.
This is how I 38 with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store 39 to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the 40 . If an accident takes place, the 41 of which I think the local police could use, I 42 him up and tell him about it, though I am not in 43 here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 44 getting something back, though the 45 often comes in an unexpected form.
One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important 46 letter to my home, though it was 47 to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of 48 . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was 49 . I was told at the window that there were 50 boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long 51 list. As I was about to 52 , the postmaster appeared in the 53 .“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, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 54 we make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get 55 but complaints(投诉).”
36.A.decision B.research C.speech D.discovery
37.A.earn B.lack C.spend D.steal
38.A.experienced B.connected C.combined D.agreed
39.A.happens B.flashes C.sticks D.leads
40.A.postmaster B.headmaster C.storekeeper D.policeman
41.A.story B.damage C.challenge D.material
42.A.call B.hold C.break D.pick
43.A.need B.trouble C.common D.charge
44.A.within B.without C.for D.before
45.A.process B.goal C.return D.concern
46.A.curious B.immediate C.special D.heavy
47.A.realized B.addressed C.forgotten D.brought
48.A.invitation B.apology C.instruction D.appreciation
49.A.dealing B.providing C.operating D.starting
50.A.enough B.some C.no D.more
51.A.admitting B.relating C.examining D.waiting
52.A.leave B.shout C.guess D.conduct
53.A.window B.doorway C.library D.yard
54.A.in case B.now that C.even if D.as if
55.A.anything B.everything C.nothing D.something