Unit 5 Travelling abroad reading课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　I learned my first lesson at a meeting. As we sat around the table I heard Meg, who was __1__ a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. "Thank you so much for __2__ my daughters to their dance lessons last week." Judith said, "It was nothing."

　　Knowing how __3__ Judith's schedule was, I found her driving Meg's children to lessons unbelievably __4__. I was about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, entered the room __5__. She apologized for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who were over seventy."That is so nice of you，" I said, __6__ how busy she was, how she didn't like to cook and clean. "Oh，" she said, waving her hand, "it was nothing." __7__， I could still tell the __8__ in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.

　　Seeing their __9__ to help others selflessly, I started thinking about the concept of "nothing"， this peaceful and generous way of living - had it really been nothing or were they simply saying that? It __10__ to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend __11__ a speech. I __12__ her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more __13__. After the fifth try, she finally __14__ it. She hugged me with __15__， saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing.

　　Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesn't __16__ mean sacrifice and hard work. The __17__ is finding something we love to do and finding someone who __18__ that something. Our generosity can benefit others __19__ ourselves. Once you have a good __20__ of it, it's nothing. And it's really something.

语篇解读：本文是一篇夹叙夹议文，主要讲述了作者如何从"没什么"这句话中悟到人生中重要的真理：予人玫瑰，手有余香。一个善意的举动使人获益良多。

　　1．A.adapting to　　　　　　 　B．recovering from

　　C．going through D．rejoicing in

　　解析：选B　结合句中"a recent operation"可知，Meg正处于手术后恢复期。recover from ...意为"从......中恢复"，符合题意。

　　2．A.guiding B．fetching

　　C．driving D．dragging

　　解析：选C　根据第二段中的"her driving Meg's children to lessons"可知，Judith应是开车送Meg的女儿去上课。故选C。

　　3．A.tight B．common

　　C．strange D．practical

解析：选A　由关键词"schedule"和下文中的"I found her driving Meg's children to lessons