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I have a close friend named Jim Forest. When I first met him eight years ago, he was working with
the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Last__
1__, Jim Forest came to__
2__. I usually wash the dishes
__
3__we've finished the evening meal, before sitting down and drinking tea with everyone else. One
night, Jim asked if he might__
4__the dishes. Then I said, "__
5__, but if you wash the dishes you must
know the__
6__to wash them." Jim replied, "Come on, you think I don't know how to wash the
dishes?" I answered, "There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in__
7__
to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes to wash the dishes." Jim was delighted and
said, "I__
8__the second way-to wash the dishes to wash the dishes." From then on, Jim__
9__how
to wash the dishes. I transferred the "responsibility" to him for a whole week with heavy snow outside.
If while washing dishes, we only__
10__the cup of tea that__
11__us, as a result, we__
12__to get
the dishes out of the way as if they were a(n)__
13__, then we are not "washing the dishes to wash the
dishes". __
14__, all of us are not__
15__during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact, we are
completely incapable of__
16__the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can't wash the dishes,
the chances are that we won't be__
17__to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will
only be thinking of other things, barely__
18__of the cup in our__
19__. Thus we are sucked away into
the future and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.
Do you__
20__wash the dishes to wash the dishes or to have clean dishes?
( )1. A. winter ( )2. A. play ( )3. A. until ( )4. A. have ( )5. A. Go ahead ( )6. A. process ( )7. A. basin ( )8. A. hope ( )9. A. knew ( )10. A. hear of ( )11. A. treats ( )12. A. walk ( )13. A. annoyance ( )14. A. As a result ( )15. A. sure ( )16. A. wondering ( )17. A. able ( )18. A. sorry ( )19. A. fingers ( )20. A. successfully |
B. summer B. visit B. if B. take B. As usual B. method B. purpose B. plan B. forgot B. think of B. expects B. run B. anger B. What's more B. proud B. receiving B. likely B. aware B. legs B. bravely |
C. fall C. eat C. after C. make C. By the way C. direction C. order C. prepare C. joked C. depend on C. awaits C. pass C. challenge C. Otherwise C. alive C. admitting C. sure C. afraid C. hands C. quickly |
D. spring D. cook D. before D. do D. Come on D. procedure D. water D. choose D. heard D. stick to D. longs D. hurry D. pleasure D. However D. ready D. enjoying D. certain D. ashamed D. arms D. honestly |