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1、2019高考英语二轮强化训练阅读理解18ALike most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a getting. It was not until in my later thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. One discovery I made about giving away is that it is almost impossible to give away anythi
2、ng in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered a letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a p
3、ost office box for4 a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard our conversation.“Wasnt it you that wrote us a letter a
4、year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?”I said it was.“Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if you have to make one for you. You dont know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complains.”56At first the author looked upon life a
5、s a process of getting. He formed this view of life because .Aother people were selfishBhe thought it exciting to get from othersCof his early educationDof his character57The author wrote a note of appreciation to the post office because .Ahe knew what such a note would mean to the post office.Bhe h
6、ad discovered giving-away made life all the more excitingChe believed he would get something back by doing soDthe post man delivered an important letter in time58When the author needed a post-office box., .Amany had applied for post-office box before him Bhe asked to put his name on a waiting listCh
7、e tried to see the postmaster Dhe wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation59The postmaster promised .Ato make a new post-office box for the author Bto let the author have a post-office boxCto include the authors name on the list Dto deliver the authors mail to his home60The postmaster interfered
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