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　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　The first day I arrived at Honolulu, I felt more depressed than excited One of my senior (资格老的)coworkers who picked me up at the airport told me that it would probably take twice the energy and more　　 1　　 to get my Ph. D degree of Law in the University of Hawaii　　 2　　 with at home. Well, to a girl who doesn’t expect to pass all her　　 3　　 years as a student, this was really an emotional attack. But I made my way towards my first　　 4　　 place. As a matter of fact, it’s a small single room in a house shared with a young Chinese couple, whom I communicated with via email before I came here.　　 5　　 it’s very noisy with a highway nearby and cost me $350 per month, I should say I was　　 6　　 enough because many other new students had to sleep in their friends’ sofas or stay at expensive　　 7　　. Housing in Honolulu is extremely tight, if you want to　　 8　　 a quiet, nice and comfortable place, you should pay no less than $600 per month.

　　The first morning when I woke up, I heard the barking of dogs from Hawaii Humane Society (a place for people to adopt pets)across the street. Then I　　 9　　 that my new life had begun. Some　　 10　　 things happened in the first week as follows:

　　I couldn’t tell dimes or quarters from the five－cent coins,　　 11　　 I insisted on using bills in the supermarket.　　 12　　 , so many changes were accumulated (积累)in my wallet.

　　I learned to　　 13　　 my first cake and got much praising from my　　 14　　 on our potluck party, which expected every participant (参加者)to　　 15　　 some self－made snacks to share.

　　I caught only two words —“president” and “football”—on my　　 16　　 class lecture, though the lecturer appeared to be an excellent joke teller.　　 17　　, I can’t follow his English with a strong German accent.

　　Anyway, I experienced so many small　　 18　　 as I mentioned above. Anyone who chooses to study　　 19　　 should be prepared to taste pains and　　 20　　 a lot.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　DOYLESTOWN STATION, Pa．(CBS)－Marie Buonanno has boxes of holiday lights to decorate her house．She already has one tree up in her living room and a nativity scene．But this holiday season, she would not dare decorate outside．

　　" It is very disappointing that we can' t celebrate the Christmas holiday the way that we religiously choose to, " says Buonanno．

　　Her home only has a holiday wreath on the door, since the Doylestown Station Condominium Association told her the bylaws do not allow colored Christmas lights．Last year, she was fined ＄400, ＄ 10 for each day her lights were up．But she says she was the only one slapped with a fine．

　　"One of my neighbors that I spoke to a few days ago, who decorates with multicolored lights, says he never got a letter of warning or a fine．"

　　Only white, non-blinking lights are allowed outside．And you can only put up a single white, blue, or orange light in your windows．Neighbors collected 62 signatures to ask the Association board to allow colored Christmas lights．In response, the Association sent out a survey．

　　Out of 38 total responses, 19 voted for white lights, 14 voted for colored non-blinking lights, and 5 voted for colored blinking．The board said the vote was 19-14 against colored lights, interpreting the 5 votes as a separate category．

　　"As long as it" s tasteful, " says neighbor Marc Udell, "let the community do what the community is going to do．"

　　No one answered the door at the Association president* s house．Some neighbors say they like the look of white lights．

　　"Some colored lights are pretty and they have their place in neighborhoods, but you never really know how far people are going to go with them, " says Jeff Edwards．

　　It will be a holiday of white lights for Buonanno and her neighborhood．She says for now she will miss her colored lights and the holiday cheer they brought to her home．

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　　When 70-year-old Bernie Meyers of Wilmette, Ill, died suddenly a cancer, his eight-year-old granddaughter Sarah Meyers didn’t have a chance to say goodbye to him．For weeks Sarah said little about what she was feeling．But then one day she came home from a friend’s birthday party with a bright helium balloon(氦气球)．“She went into the house,”her mother recalls,“and came out carrying the balloon and an envelope addressed to ‘Grandpa Bernie, in Heaven Up High．’”

　　The envelope contained a letter in which Sarah told her grandfather that she loved him and hoped somehow he could hear her．Sarah wrote her return address on the envelope, tried the envelope to the balloon and let it go．“The balloon seemed so fragile,”her mother remembers．“I didn’t think it would make it pass the trees．But it did．”

　　Two months passed．Then one day a letter arrived addressed to“Sarah Meyers’ Family”and bearing(盖有)a York, Pa(宾州)post mark．

　　“Dear Sarah, family & friends,

　　Your letter to Grandpa Bernie Meyers safely reached the address and was read by him．I understand they can’t keep material things up there, so it drifted back to Earth．Those who live in Heaven just keep thoughts, memories, love and things like that．Sarah, whenever you think about your grandpa, he know and is very close by with love．

　　Sincerely yours

　　Don Kopp(also a grandpa)

　　Kopp, a 63-year-old retired clerk, had found the letter and the nearly deflated balloon while hunting in northeastern Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚州)——almost 600 miles from Wilmette．The balloon had floated over at least three states and one of the Great Lakes before coming to rest on a tree．

　　“Though it took me a couple of days to think of what to say,”Kopp notes,“it was important to me that I write to Sarah．”

　　“I just wanted to hear from Grandpa somehow,”says Sarah．“Now I think I have heard from him．”

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