It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to_to the United States.
A.emigrate
B.move
C.immigrate
D.imminent
- · 有3位网友选择 B,占比33.33%
- · 有3位网友选择 D,占比33.33%
- · 有2位网友选择 A,占比22.22%
- · 有1位网友选择 C,占比11.11%
A.emigrate
B.move
C.immigrate
D.imminent
____long enough to have a job, I would choose to be a doctor,____hose AIDS patients. |
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A. Had I lived, helping B. If I should live, help C. Were I to live, helping D. If I would live, helping |
A、details
B、introduction
C、result
D、evidence
A、the flag on the white settlers’ ship
B、the sails of the white settlers’ ship
C、the tent of the white settlers
D、the sheet of the white settlers
So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who, in my imagination, fires The New York Times from his bike aimed at our front door, causing more noise with mere newsprint than most people manage with sophisticated black market fireworks.
With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadn't realized I was supposed to. This was the first time he'd used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style. protection racket(收取保护费的黑社会组织).
Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids. The outside of the envelope said MICKEY. It had to be another tip request, this time from our garbage collector. Unlike Raoul, Mickey hadn't enclosed his own Christmas card from me. In a way, I appreciated the directness. "I know you don't care how merry my Christmas is, and that's fine", the gesture said. "I want $30, or I'll 'forget' to empty your garbage bin some hot summer day".
I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin. The next morning, Ed noticed that the envelope was gone, though the trash hadn't yet been picked up: "Someone stole Mickey's tip!" Ed was quite certain. He made me call the bank and cancel the check.
But Ed had been wrong. Two weeks later, Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled. The following Tuesday morning, when Ed saw a truck outside, he ran out with his wallet. "Are you Mickey?"
The man looked at him with scorn. "Mickey is the garbageman. I am the recycling". Not only had Ed insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman, but he had obviously neglected to tip him. Ed ran back inside for more funds. Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had been watching the whole transaction. He peeled off another twenty and looked around, waving bills in the air. "Anyone else"?
Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette(礼节) could have been avoided. Under "trash/recycling collectors" in the institute's Holiday Tipping Guidelines, it says: "$10 to $30 each". You may or may not wish to know that your pet groomer, hairdresser, mailman and UPS guy all expect a holiday tip.
The newspaper deliveryman put a blank card inside the envelope because______.
A.he forgot to write a few words on it
B.he wanted the couple to send it back
C.he used it to ask for a Christmas tip
D.he was afraid of asking for a tip in person
完形填空。 | ||||
Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important1: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you2money. This is how I3with giving away. If an idea of improving the window display of a neighborhood store 4to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the5. If a car accident happens, I think the6will be needed, so I7them up and tell them about it, though I am not in8here. One discovery I made about this world is to give9getting something back, though the10often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important11letter to my home, though it was12 to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of13. More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was14. I was told at the window that there were15boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long16list. As I was about to17, the postmaster appeared in the18. "Wasn't it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well, certainly you are going to have a box in this post office19we make one for you. You don't know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get20but complaints." | ||||
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A、committed
B、committing
C、likely
D、common
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