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       A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There   1   my house, reduced to waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.        Before the trip, I had had my car fixed .When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she  2     my Louisiana license plate. “You from New Orleans?” she asked .I said I was, “No   3    .” She said, and firmly shook her   4   when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and    5   happened.        As my wife was studying in Florida ,we decided to move there and tried to find a(n)   6   house that we could afford while   7   paying off a mortgage（抵押贷款）on our ruined house .We looked at many places, but   8   was satisfactory. We had begun to accept that we would have to live in    9   reduced circumstances（条件）for a while,   10   I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California. He had read some pieces I had written about our    11   for Slate, the online magazine and wanted to give us a new   12   across the lake for New Orleans.        It sounded too good to be true ,   11   I replied ,thanking him for his exceptional generosity（大方）,   14   we had no plans to go back .Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to    15   his house to me, while he went to England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather   16   .I mentioned the poet’s offer to    17   , and the next day he sent a   18   covering our entire rent for eight months .Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to    19   my faith in humanity .It’s almost    20   losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when given half a chance. 1．A．stood                    B．lay                      C．went                   D．left 2．A．watched                B．looked                 C．overlooked          D．noticed 3．A．smoking                B．problem               C．charge                D．damage 4．A．head                     B．body                   C．hand                   D．arm 5．A．a strange thing       B．different things     C．another thing       D．the same thing 6．A．rental                    B．expensive            C．perfect                D．beautiful 7．A．ever                      B．never                  C．also                    D．only 8．A．little                      B．much                  C．nothing               D．none 9．A．specially                B．gradually             C．extremely            D．usually 20080424   10．A．while                  B．when                  C．since                   D．after 11．A．happiness            B．sufferings            C．kindness              D．fortune 12．A．house                  B．job                      C．field                    D．chance 11．A．so                       B．or                       C．as                       D．but 14．A．that                     B．which                 C．what                   D．why 15．A．sell                     B．present                C．give                    D．let 16．A．terrible                B．reasonable           C．much                  D．high 17．A．my wife              B．Katrina                C．the university       D．James Kennedy 18．A．note                    B．bill                      C．check                 D．letter 19．A．bring back           B．bring down          C．bring forward      D．bring up 20．A．worthy                   B．worth              C．useless                   D．good 答案： 1—5 BDCAD 20080424       6—10 ACDCB  11—15 BADAD  16—20 BDCAB

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