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With a group of colleagues, I travelled to the north of Thailand. I loved the heat, the streets, the busy markets and the smell of Thai food.      One day, I set off from my _1_ to find a temple that interested me. When I walked past some buildings, I was   2   as I glanced between two unfinished buildings. There, an old woman in   3    clothing lay on the dusty stones. The terrible thought crossed my mind   4   she might be dead.      Feeling quite helpless, I    5   her. She looked quite beautiful but very ill. As an instant  6  , I reached into my pocket to find some money.  7  , I pushed it into her hand. It was enough money for her to   8   for a few months.      At this moment she opened her large, brown eyes filled with tears and   9   the money I'd given her. I felt like the "kind stranger".          10   a common language, she looked at me with the   11   and pity that could burn into a soul. She   12    pushed back the money. I was left shocked. Her eyes were   13   me. It took at least a kilometre of walking to   14   I was quite the fool. She didn't   15   money. She needed covers, a bottle of water and possibly some human comfort. She was the one to teach me a valuable lesson.      That evening, I sat analysing my material version of "_16_". I knew I had to   17   my Western values. This beautiful woman had given me something that I will   18   for the rest of my life. When I look back upon the  19  , I hope my face carries the same wise smile that   20   laughed at me.

(     )1. A.hotel         (     )2. A.interested     (     )3. A.traditional   (     )4. A.unless         (     )5. A.greeted       (     )6. A.failure       (     )7. A.Carefully     (     )8. A.save           (     )9. A.accepted       (     )10. A.Without       (     )11. A.wisdom       (     )12. A.naturally     (     )13. A.depending on (     )14. A.explain       (     )15. A.need         (     )16. A.sadness       (     )17. A.offer         (     )18. A.look         (     )19. A.experience   (     )20. A.still         B. office         B. excited       B. clean         B. though         B. approached     B. warning       B. Strangely     B. survive       B. won           B. In             B. comfort       B. proudly       B. caring for     B. realise       B. enjoy         B. loneliness     B. share         B. carry         B. trade         B. hardly         C. home           C. disappointed   C. expensive     C. that           C. nursed         C. reaction       C. Hopelessly     C. value         C. discussed     C. Except         C. luck           C. nervously     C. laughing at   C. agree         C. make           C. kindness       C. follow         C. stand         C. pleasure       C. often         D. school             D. shocked           D. beautiful         D. when               D. moved             D. reward             D. Unhappily         D. work               D. examined           D. Like               D. courage           D. weakly             D. quarrelling with   D. remind             D. waste             D. business           D. challenge         D. forget             D. adventure         D. once

Answer 1

1-5: ADACB  6-10: CABDA  11-15: ADCBA  16-20: CDBAD