A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about 36 in work and life. Offering his 37 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 38 with a large pot of coffee and a 39 of cups---porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful—telling them to 40 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “if you have 41 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been 42 , leaving behind the plain and 43 ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 44 of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup 45 adds no quality to the coffee. 46 it is just more expensive and in some cases 47 hides what we drink.”
“ 48 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, 49 you consciously went for the best cups…. And then you began 50 each other’s cups.”
Now consider this: 51 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. 52 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the 53 of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 54 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups 55 you … enjoy the coffee instead.
36. A. stress B. dream C. sorrow D. truth
37. A. friends B. customers C. fellows D. guests
38. A. carried B. returned C. arrived D. reached
39. A. kind B. variety C. sort D. number
40. A. devote B. expose C. help D. addicted
41. A. searched B. witnessed C. noticed D. discovered
42. A. taken up B. brought in C. sold out D. cut down
43. A. expensive B. cheap C. beautiful D. usual
44. A. point B. answer C. source D. result
45. A. by itself B. on its own C. for itself D. itself
46. A. At no time B. At times C. In no case D. In most cases
47. A. ever B. even C. never D. hardly
48. A. What B. That C. Which D. Whether
49. A. but B. so C. and D. for
50. A. suspecting B. liking C. envying D. eyeing
51. A. Love B. Life C. Future D. Failure
52. A. They B. We C. You D. What
53. A. quantity B. style C. quality D. standard
54. A. have B. hesitate C. forget D. fail
55. A. force B. drive C. puzzle D. amaze
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Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't 1 drive to a store and back home. He always looks 2 up and down the streets of his
neighborhood. He looks for anything 3 such as strange cars, loud noises, 4 windows, or people gathering on street comers.
Tim 5 to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group 6 on the third Wednesday of every month, That's 7 Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community 8 . Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police 9 their homes, streets, and families safe.
Tina Stedman, president of 10 neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime（犯罪）happens to other people but not 11 them. Well, it's never happened to me,” she said, “but I don't think anyone has the 12 to steal from other people or to make them feel 13 sitting in their own homes.”
Alex, a member of the group, says that all the neighbors 14 out for one another. “We 15 each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a 16 of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the 17 .For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for 18 , or someone destroying property（财产）, we report to the police.”
Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups 19 a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can't do 20 .”
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Directions：Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context．
A group of robbers dug their way into the basement of a bank in Paris and emptied almost 200 private safes(保险箱)．
They entered the Credit Lyonnais branch using building equipment to dig holes and destroy walls 1．________ Saturday night．They tied up a security guard and spent 2．________ next nine hours robbing the bank．
One investigator described the robbery 3．________ a “professional job”．The robbers came in at about 22∶00 on Saturday 4．________ left at 07∶00 on Sunday．They entered through the basements of the neighbouring building, digging through a series of tunnels and making a hole into a wall of 80 cm thick to get into the bank, 5．________ was having building works at the time．
When 6．________ left, the robbers set the place on fire to remove any trace of evidence, switching on the anti-fire system and flooding the building．Fortunatcly, the guard escaped unharmed．
7．________ is difficult to estimate the total value of what 8．________ as only the bank's clients(储户)know the content of their private safes．
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-A group _____ itself the League For Peace.
A. calling B. calls
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