2010年西城二模

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Nearly two decades has passed,I still remember my favourite professor,James Schwartz.Whenever he smiles,it's as if you'd just been told the funniest joke on earth.Almost all his students are his friends,and almost all his students know his life story.

When James was a teenager,his father                  （36） him to a fur factory where he worked.This was during the Great Depression.The                  （37） was to get James a job.

He entered the factory,and immediately felt as if the                  （38） had closed in around him.The room was dark and hot,the windows covered with dust,and the                  （39） were packed tightly together,running like trains.The fur hairs were flying,                 （40） a thickened air,and the workers,                 （41） the pieces of fur together,were bent over their needles                  （42） the boss marched up and down the rows,searching for them to go faster.James could hardly                  （43）.He stood next to his father,frozen with fear,hoping the boss wouldn't                  （44） at him,too.

During lunch break,his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,                 （45） if there was any work for his son.But                  （46） there was barely enough                  （47） for the adult labours,for no one would give it up once he takes a job.

Thus,for James,it was a                  （48）.He hated the place.He made a                  （49） that he kept to the end of his life: he would never do any work that brought                  （50） to someone else,and he would never allow himself to                  （51） money off the seat of others.

“What will you do?” his mother,Eva,would ask him.

“I don't know,” he                  （52） say.He ruled out law,because he didn't like                  （53）,and he ruled out medicine,because he couldn't take the                  （54） of blood.

“What will you do?”

                 （55）,my best professor I ever had became a teacher because he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

36  A. sent  B. took  C. carried  D. admitted

37  A. situation  B. condition  C. idea  D. way

38  A. lights  B. doors  C. chances  D. walls

39  A. goods  B. workers  C. machines  D. vehicles

40  A. creating  B. sending  C. taking  D. disturbing

41  A. collecting  B. pulling  C. drawing  D. sewing

42  A. as  B. after  C. if  D. though

43  A. breathe  B. see  C. walk  D. hear

44  A. attack  B. scold  C. rush  D. scream

45  A. doubting  B. questioning  C. asking  D. demanding

46  A. also  B. still  C. yet  D. even

47  A. time  B. work  C. office  D. occupation

48  A. comforting  B. regretting  C. blessing  D. forgiving

49  A. request  B. promise  C. plan  D. arrangement

50  A. harm  B. injury  C. damage  D. inconvenience

51  A. pay  B. save  C. make  D. let

52  A. should  B. would  C. could  D. might

53  A. police  B. lawyers  C. judges  D. government

54  A. sight  B. feel  C. sense  D. scenery

55  A. Generally  B. Luckily  C. Eventually  D. Basically