Once, a rich man was near death. He was very upset because he had worked so hard for his money 1______. he hoped he could take it with him to heaven. So he prayed to God he might be able to take some money with him.

  2._____ angel heard his pray and appeared."Sorry, 3._____ you can't take your wealth with

you.”The man begged the angel to speak to God to see 4._____ he might break the rules. The angel re-

appeared and said that God could allow him to take one suitcase. Excitedly,the man gathered his suitcase and filled it 5._____ pure gold bars.

  Afterward,he died and showed up in heaven to greet St. Peter. 6._____ (see) the suitcase,St.

Peter said, "Hold on,you can't bring that here！" The man explained that he had God's 7_____. ( per-

mit) .St. Peter checked it out, 8._____ (come)back and said, "You are right. You are allowed one carry-on bag? but I'm supposed to check its contents (内容) before letting it through.”

  St. Peter opened the suitcase to inspect the things 9._____the man found too precious to leave be?hind and exclaimed(感叹) ，"You brought pavement? As you can see,the great street of the city of heaven 10._____(make) of pure gold！”

 I can remember a period in my life when I was un?employed and money was running short. I needed a job very 1.________A friend of mine approached me one day with an 2.________ "I'm going to have to let this job go and won?dering if you would like to take it over.”

  "That would be 3________”， I replied. I went to the manager and he said I could 4________ on Monday morning.

  On Monday morning I was 5________ to buff(擦) the floors. My friend was there to 6________ me how to oper?ate the buffer.

"It's really 7________ ，" he said,running the machine very 8________. He handed it over to me and said, "Here,you give it a try. ” I 9________ the handles. To my sur?prise,the buffer went around in a big circle,running over my friend's new shoes.

  Several times,I tried to run it again and 10________ .

  "What am I going to do?" I thought to myself. "I finally found a job and I can't do it. Am I going to have to tell them I have to 11________the job?"

  After several 12________ days of buffing,I finally decided that I was going to do this. For about a week,I 13________ with the buffer,putting all my weight and 14________ into it. Later,I learnt the trick was not to struggle with it at all,just 15________with the flow of it,and by the second week,I could run it with one hand.

 20________don't have to stop you.  If you run into them,just figure out how to go through them.

1.A. badly   B. well

C.quickly   D. generally

2.A. apology   B. invitation   C. offer   D. opinion

3.A. great   B. worth   C. difficult   D. funny

4.A. finish   B. leave   C. stay   D. start

5.A. warned   B. told

C. forced   D. discovered

6.A. watch   B. order   C. ask   D. show

7.A. easy   B. difficult   C. interesting   D. boring

8.A. specially   B. carefully   C. slowly   D. smoothly

9.A. grabbed   B. repaired   C. wiped   D. equipped

10.A. remained   B. insisted   C. failed   D. dropped

11.A. give up   B. give out   C. carry on   D. focus on

12.A. simple   B. harmful   C. hard   D. happy

13.A. met   B. struggled   C. lived   D. combined

14.A. body   B. spirit

 C. heart   D. strength

15.A. do   B. go

 C. walk   D. match

16.A. turned   B. came   C. thought   D. threw

17.A. when   B. unless   C. as   D. if

18.A. moment   B. fight   C. experience   D. story

19.A. required   B. introduced   C. reduced   D. rejected

20.A. Achievements   B. Difficulties   C. Disabilities   D. Successes

1.        is the highest honor for most athletes, (represent)

能被选拔出来代表国家参赛，是多数运动员的最高荣誉。

8.The young man        men from fighting, (volunteer)

那个青年自告奋勇，要去制止那几个醉汉打架。

5. They looked forward with hope     hearing from you.

6.This is the car__________ which the old man was knocked down.

3.The department is also deeply involved     various improvement schemes.

8.        we will win the next game, (likely)

我们有可能赢得下一场比赛。