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Passage 1
We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears (1)______, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I (2)______ to see—or look at—on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter (3)______ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a. m. On (4)______ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime (5)______ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.(6)______ , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I (7)______ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how (8)______ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I (9)______ her.
“Did she have an accident? Something (10)______?” I thought to myself about her (11)______ . Now that she was gone, I felt I had (12)______ her. I began to realize that part of our (13)______ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar (14)______: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who (15)______ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are (16)______ markers in our lives. They add weight to our (17)______ of places and belongings. Think about it.(18)______, while walking to work, we mark where we are by (19)______ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though (20)______, person?
1. A. Make B. Take C. Give D. Have
2. A. happened B. wanted C. used D. tried
3. A. what B. how C. which D. when
4. A. sunny B. rainy C. cloudy D. snowy
5. A. took B. brought C. carried D. turned
6. A. Clearly B. Particularly C. Luckily D. Especially
7. A. believed B. expressed C. remembered D. wondered
8. A. long B. often C. soon D. much
9. A. respected B. missed C. praised D. admired
10. A. better B. worse C. more D. less
11. A. disappearance B. appearance C. misfortune D. fortune
12. A. forgotten B. lost C. known D. hurt
13. A. happy B. enjoyable C. frequent D. daily
14. A. friends B. strangers C. tourists D. guests
15. A. regularly B. actually C. hardly D. probably
16. A. common B. pleasant C. important D. faithful
17. A. choice B. knowledge C. decision D. sense
18. A. Because B. If C. Although D. However
19. A. keeping B. changing C. passing D. mentioning
20. A. unnamed B. unforgettable C. unbelievable D. unreal
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