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II、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
　　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