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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 to37 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 34th 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.

1.A. rain             B. anger          C. snow           D. hunger

2. A. leave           B. go             C. stay           D. look

3. A. surely          B. possibly       C. really         D. freely

4. A. lazy            B. bored          C. nervous        D. friendly

5. A. shouted         B. explained      C. believed       D. agreed

6. A. hotels          B. desks          C. streets        D. rooms

7. A. nice            B. famous         C. rich           D. common

8.A. beyond           B. off            C. out            D. under

9. A. kind            B. glad           C. good           D. generous

10. A. enjoyable      B. helpful        C. grateful       D. comfortable

11.A. worry about     B. take care of   C. make use of    D. come up with

12. A. one            B. it             C. them           D. those

13.A. sleep           B. meal           C. laugh          D. walk

14. A. after          B. before         C. while          D. when

15. A. ticket         B. bill           C. check          D. questionnaire

16. A. made           B. told           C. treated        D. led

17. A. building       B. car            C. bedroom        D. place

18. A. live           B. sell           C. manage         D. rent

19. A. lying          B. joking         C. dreaming       D. cheating

20. A. whose    B. which    C. whom D. who

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