One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the
36 _, the couple went to the front desk hoping to
37 for the night.
“Could you
38 give us a room here?” the husband asked.
The clerk, a
39 man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and
40 that there were three conventions(大会) in town.
“All of our
41 are taken,” the clerk said. “But I can’t send a
42 couple like you
43 into the rain at 1 o’clock in the morning. Would you please be
44 to sleep in my room? It’s not exactly a suite（套房）, but it will be good enough to make you
45 for the night.”
The couple said no politely.
“Don’t
46 me. It is just fine with me,” the clerk told them.
As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, “You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel. Maybe someday I’ll build
47 for you.” The three of them had a good
48 .
Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten it
49 he received a letter from the old man. It recalled(使回忆) that stormy night and contained a round-trip（双程的）
50 to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit. The old man met him in New York, and
51 him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34
th Street.
He then pointed to a great new
52 there, a palace of reddish stone. “That,” said the old man, “is the hotel I have just built for you to
53_ .”
“You must be
54 ,” the young man said.
“I am sure I am not,” said the old man, the name of
55 was William Waldorf Astor, and the magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk, George C. Boldt became its first manager.
| 小题1: | | A．rain | B．anger | C．snow | D．hunger |
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| 小题3: | | A．surely | B．possibly | C．really | D．freely |
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| 小题4: | | A．lazy | B．bored | C．nervous | D．friendly |
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| 小题5: | | A．shouted | B．explained | C．believed | D．agreed |
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| 小题6: | | A．hotels | B．desks | C．streets | D．rooms |
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| 小题7: | | A．nice | B．famous | C．rich | D．common |
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| 小题8: | | A．beyond | B．off | C．out | D．under |
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| 小题9: | | A．kind | B．glad | C．good | D．generous |
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| 小题10: | | A．enjoyable | B．helpful | C．grateful | D．comfortable |
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| 小题11: | | A．worry about | B．take care of | C．make use of | D．come up with |
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| 小题13: | | A．sleep | B．meal | C．laugh | D．walk |
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| 小题14: | | A．after | B．before | C．while | D．when |
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| 小题15: | | A．ticket | B．bill | C．check | D．questionnaire |
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| 小题16: | | A．made | B．told | C．treated | D．led |
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| 小题17: | | A．building | B．car | C．bedroom | D．place |
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| 小题18: | | A．live | B．sell | C．manage | D．rent |
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| 小题19: | | A．lying | B．joking | C．dreaming | D．cheating |
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| 小题20: | | A．whose | B．which | C．whom | D．who |
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