I’ve spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that
1 is an occupational disease. But one year, my
2 gave me the cure for my homesickness.
It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet--- a stuffed penguin (企鹅) that
3 about five inches tall. Attached to its left wing
4 a little sign with the hand-painted declaration “ I Love My Dad!”. I immediately
5 the penguin on my table.
On my next trip, I put the
6 in my suitcase. That night when I called home, my daughter Jeanine was
7 because the penguin had disappeared. “Honey, he’s here with me,” I explained, “ I brought him
8 ”.
9 , the penguin came with me --- as necessary as my briefcase. And we
10 along the way. In Albuquerque, I checked into a
11 , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting. When I returned, the maid had
12 the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow.
One night, I discovered the penguin
13 , and after a mad phone call, I learned I’d
14 it in my previous hotel room,
15 it had been rescued by a maid. I
16 a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk. In the hotel lobby (大厅), other tired business travelers were
17 at the reunion of my penguin and me --- I think with a touch of
18 .
Jeanine is in college now, and I don’t travel
19 . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion. All those years on
20 , it was the one thing I never left home without.
| 小题1: | | A．cold | B．hunger | C．loneliness | D．fever |
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| 小题2: | | A．boy | B．daughter | C．friend | D．mother |
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| 小题3: | | A．stood | B．lay | C．jumped | D．climbed |
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| 小题4: | | A．wrote | B．turned | C．was | D．had |
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| 小题5: | | A．threw | B．lost | C．gave | D．placed |
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| 小题6: | | A．bear | B．penguin | C．dog | D．rabbit |
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| 小题7: | | A．upset | B．happy | C．glad | D．excited |
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| 小题9: | | A．From now on | B．In the future | C．In future | D．From then on |
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| 小题10: | | A．had friends | B．had friend | C．made friends | D．made friend |
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| 小题11: | | A．school | B．hotel | C．shop | D．supermarket |
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| 小题12: | | A．given | B．turned | C．made | D．carried |
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| 小题13: | | A．sleeping | B．going | C．living | D．missing |
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| 小题14: | | A．forget | B．left | C．ordered | D．sent |
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| 小题15: | | A．there | B．when | C．where | D．how |
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| 小题16: | | A．ran | B．walked | C．hurried | D．drove |
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| 小题17: | | A．surprised | B．frightened | C．looked | D．laughed |
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| 小题18: | | A．anger | B．envy | C．sadness | D．illness |
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| 小题19: | | A．as many | B．as seldom | C．so little | D．as much |
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| 小题20: | | A．the hotel | B．the meeting | C．the road | D．the house |
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