As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents in Texas. And every few summers, we’d __16__ the caravan (旅游团队), a group of Airstream trailer owners who __17__ together around the U.S. and Canada．
I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked __18__ to these travels. On one particular __ 19__ ，I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the backseat. My grandfather was __20__ . And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the __21__.
At that age, I’d take any excuse to make estimates(估计) and do minor __22__．At any rate, I decided to do the math for my __23__. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of __24__ per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I’d come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the __25__ of the car, tapped my grandmother __26__ the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, “At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your __27__!” Because the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes __28__ smoker’s life．
I expected to be applauded for my __29__ and arithmetic skills. That’s not what happened．__30__, my grandmother burst into __31__. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. My grandfather was a highly intelligent, __32__ man. He had never said a harsh word to me. He pulled __33__ onto the shoulder of the highway. He stopped and got out of the car, __34__ me, and after a bit of silence，he gently and __35__ said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
| 小题1: | | A．take | B．join | C．attend | D．visit |
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| 小题2: | | A．work | B．study | C．travel | D．explore |
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| 小题3: | | A．forward | B．backward | C．toward | D．upward |
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| 小题4: | | A．holiday | B．research | C．trip | D．return |
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| 小题5: | | A．talking | B．reading | C．training | D．driving |
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| 小题6: | | A．scene | B．smell | C．band | D．type |
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| 小题7: | | A．arithmetic(算数) | B．question | C．game | D．problem |
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| 小题8: | | A．grandfather | B．grandmother | C．visitor | D．car |
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| 小题9: | | A．cases | B．smokes | C．kinds | D．puffs(烟头) |
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| 小题10: | | A．window | B．seat | C．back | D．front |
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| 小题12: | | A．tour | B．life | C．distance | D．date |
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| 小题14: | | A．cleverness | B．coolness | C．happiness | D．ability |
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| 小题15: | | A．Eventually | B．Instead | C．Unfortunately | D．Though |
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| 小题16: | | A．words | B．laughters | C．tears | D．screams |
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| 小题17: | | A．stubborn | B．determined | C．lonely | D．quiet |
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| 小题19: | | A．noticed | B．looked | C．glared | D．glanced |
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| 小题20: | | A．angrily | B．excitedly | C．calmly | D．coldly |
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