Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device(装置) on your desk. And they’ve never actually 1 you. 2 they feel they can know you just from the sound of your voice. That’s how powerful the 3 is.
Powerful, yes, but not always 4 . For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I’d never met 5 , got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really 6 me. I sometimes wished to find another agent.
One morning, I had to 7 an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Rani’s office for the first time. The woman sitting at the desk, 8 my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a 9 smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the 10 immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought.
Rushing out 11 I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, what’s your name?” “I’m Rani,” she said. I turned around and saw a 12 woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was speechless! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so 13 .
Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Rani’s 14 — her warm smile, her nods, her ‘I’m here for you’ 15 —were all silent signals that didn’t travel through wires.
1.A. accepted B. noticed C. heard D. met
2.A. Thus B. Yet C. Then D. Indeed
3.A. telephone B. voice C. connection D. impression
4.A. direct B. useful C. easy D. accurate
5.A. in person B. by myself C. in public D. on purpose
6.A. annoyed B. interested C. discouraged D. confused
7.A. arrange B. postpone C. confirm D. book
8.A. expecting B. seeing C. testing D. avoiding
9.A. shy B. comforting C. familiar D. forced
10.A. bill B. form C. ticket D. list
11.A. hopefully B. disappointedly C. gratefully D. regretfully
12.A. careful B. serious C. nervous D. pleasant
13.A. calm B. nice C. proud D. clever
14.A. forgiveness B. eagerness C. friendliness D. skillfulness
15.A. explanation B. attitude C. concept D. behavior
Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away. But something made her look 16 (close), and she noticed a shining object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring. Pahlsson screamed 17 loudly that her daughter came 18 (run) from the house. “She thought I had hurt myself,” says Pahlsson. Sixteen years earlier, Pahlsson ___19___ (remove) the diamond ring to cook a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was 20 (go). She suspected that one of her three daughters — then ten, eight, and six— had picked 21 up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, 22 turned up nothing. “I gave up hope of finding my ring again,” she says. She never replaced it.
Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got 22 (sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, 23 it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was 65 wonder.
A garden that’s just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? 26 But it doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.
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Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料). 28 However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(回忆)your childhood memories
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden and Dad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important. 29 —how being in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 30 Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own garden
C. It’s our experience of the garden that matters
D. It’s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers
E. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants
F. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too
G. For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have
答案：
1-5 DBADA 6-10 ADBBC 11-15 CDBCB
16. closer 17. so 18. running 19. had removed 20. gone
21. it 22. but 23. swept 24. where 25. a
26-30 FAECG
Powerful, yes, but not always 4 . For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I’d never met 5 , got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really 6 me. I sometimes wished to find another agent.
One morning, I had to 7 an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Rani’s office for the first time. The woman sitting at the desk, 8 my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a 9 smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the 10 immediately. “What a wonderful lady!” I thought.
Rushing out 11 I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, what’s your name?” “I’m Rani,” she said. I turned around and saw a 12 woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was speechless! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so 13 .
Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Rani’s 14 — her warm smile, her nods, her ‘I’m here for you’ 15 —were all silent signals that didn’t travel through wires.
1.A. accepted B. noticed C. heard D. met
2.A. Thus B. Yet C. Then D. Indeed
3.A. telephone B. voice C. connection D. impression
4.A. direct B. useful C. easy D. accurate
5.A. in person B. by myself C. in public D. on purpose
6.A. annoyed B. interested C. discouraged D. confused
7.A. arrange B. postpone C. confirm D. book
8.A. expecting B. seeing C. testing D. avoiding
9.A. shy B. comforting C. familiar D. forced
10.A. bill B. form C. ticket D. list
11.A. hopefully B. disappointedly C. gratefully D. regretfully
12.A. careful B. serious C. nervous D. pleasant
13.A. calm B. nice C. proud D. clever
14.A. forgiveness B. eagerness C. friendliness D. skillfulness
15.A. explanation B. attitude C. concept D. behavior
Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away. But something made her look 16 (close), and she noticed a shining object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring. Pahlsson screamed 17 loudly that her daughter came 18 (run) from the house. “She thought I had hurt myself,” says Pahlsson. Sixteen years earlier, Pahlsson ___19___ (remove) the diamond ring to cook a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was 20 (go). She suspected that one of her three daughters — then ten, eight, and six— had picked 21 up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, 22 turned up nothing. “I gave up hope of finding my ring again,” she says. She never replaced it.
Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got 22 (sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, 23 it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was 65 wonder.
A garden that’s just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? 26 But it doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.
● 27
Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料). 28 However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(回忆)your childhood memories
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden and Dad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important. 29 —how being in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 30 Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own garden
C. It’s our experience of the garden that matters
D. It’s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers
E. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants
F. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too
G. For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have
答案：
1-5 DBADA 6-10 ADBBC 11-15 CDBCB
16. closer 17. so 18. running 19. had removed 20. gone
21. it 22. but 23. swept 24. where 25. a
26-30 FAECG
