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A middle-aged woman in an old dress stepped hesitantly without an appointment into the president
of Harvard University's outer office. The secretary could immediately
_1_that such a hick(乡下人) had
no
2 at Harvard. "I want to see the president", she said softly. "He'll be
_3_all day," the secretary
snapped. "I'll wait, " the woman replied.
For hours, the secretary
_4_her, hoping that she would finally become
_5 and go away. She didn't.
And the secretary finally had to disturb the president. The president _6
_appeared toward her. The
woman told him, "I had a son that
_7_Harvard for one year but was accidentally killed. And I would
like to put up a
_8 for him, somewhere on campus".
The president wasn't
9 but annoyed. "Madam," he said, "We can't put up a
_10_ for every person
who attended Harvard and
_11_. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery(墓地)".
"Oh, no," the woman explained
12 ," I don't want to erect a statue. I would like to give a building to
Harvard."
13 at the old dress, the president
_14 ,"A building! Do you have any
15 idea how much
a building costs? We have over eight million dollars in the physical(物质的) costs at Harvard".
For a moment the woman was _
16_. The president was pleased. He could get rid of her now. "Is
that all it costs to start a _
17_?" and then the woman asked quietly.
_18_ that Mrs. Leland Stanford
walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where she
_19_the university that bears her
_20_, a
memorial to her son that Harvard no longer cared about.
( )1. A. say ( )2. A. business ( )3. A. tired ( )4. A. scolded ( )5. A. scared ( )6. A. hurriedly ( )7. A. visited ( )8. A. memorial ( )9. A. surprised ( )10. A. photo ( )11. A. left ( )12. A. slowly ( )13. A. Glaring ( )14. A. laughed ( )15. A. strange ( )16. A. silent ( )17. A. class ( )18. A. For ( )19. A. established ( )20. A. wish |
B. see B. student B. free B. treated B. uninterested B. coldly B. attended B. sign B. disappointed B. tomb B. graduated B. quickly B. Smiling B. responded B. wise B. sorry B. course B. By B. built B. promise |
C. tell C. question C. ill C. comforted C. discouraged C. patiently C. researched C. lab C. interested C. statue C. appreciate C. unpleasantly C. Glancing C. debated C. absurd C. ashamed C. university C. In C. organized C. name |
D. admit D. relative D. busy D. ignored D. troubled D. angrily D. built D. study D. touched D. will D. died D. strongly D. Pointing D. advised D. practical D. painful D. cemetery D. With D. managed D. cost |