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I was cleaning out an old box when an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket
Company. 'What is it?' I wondered. I1it over. There, on the back in faded ink, was a
hand-scrawled (手写的)2. Immediately my mind traveled3many years.
I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag
of magazines on my shoulder. On my4that day, I came to that Company finally, whose
owner, Mr Rader, had always taken me there to ask his workers5they wanted any
magazines.
Shaking off the6like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader's office. After a quick glance
he7me over to the fire-place. Noticing the8in the top of my9, he said, 'Come
with me!' pulling me into his10and drove me downtown. We pulled to a stop before a
shoe store. Inside, a salesman11me with the finest pair of Oxfords I had12seen.
I13several inches tall when I got up14them. 'We'd like a pair of new socks too,'
Mr. Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a15, wrote something on it, and handed it
to me. With16eyes, I read, 'Do to others as you would have them do to you.' He said
affectionately (深情地), 'Jimmy, I want you to17I love you'.
I said good-bye, and for the first time I18the hope that things would be19.
With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that
would always make a20.
( )1. A. read
( )2. A. address
( )3. A. forward
( )4. A. return
( )5. A. if only
( )6. A. dust
( )7. A. led
( )8. A. hole
( )9. A. magazine
( )10. A. truck
( )11. A. wore
( )12. A. ever
( )13 A. grew
( )14. A. for
( )15. A. pen
( )16. A. tearful
( )17. A. recognize
( )18. A. sensed
( )19. A. mistaken
( )20. A. deal B. thought
B. list
B. so
B. rounds
B. how
B. sweat
B. followed
B. mud
B. shoe
B. factory
B. fitted
B. already
B. measured
B. with
B. paper
B. believable
B. know
B. received
B. bad
B. fortune C. turned
C. message
C. ahead
C. trip
C. whether
C. tail
C. watched
C. water
C. sock
C. home
C. lent
C. never
C. rose
C. on
C. card
C. terrible
C. consider
C. lost
C. all right
C. choice D. passed
D. information
D. back
D. arrival
D. why
D. rain
D. carried
D. cover
D. bag
D. store
D. comforted
D. hardly
D. felt
D. in
D. notebook
D. puzzling
D. express
D. imagined
D. impossible
D. difference