题目内容：

I learned my first lesson at a meeting. As we sat around the table I heard Meg, who was _________ a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for _________ my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” “Don’t mention it,” Judith says, “It was nothing.”

Knowing how _________ Judith’s schedule is, with her work, kids and aging parents, I found her driving Meg’s children to lessons unbelievably _________. I was about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, entered the room _________. She apologized for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who are over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I say,_________ how busy she was, how she didn’t like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she said, waving her hand, “It was nothing.”_________, I could still tell the _________ in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.

Seeing their_________to help others selflessly, I started thinking about the concept of “nothing”, this peaceful and generous way of living——had it really been nothing or were they simply saying that? It __________ to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend __________ a speech. I __________ her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more __________. After the fifth try, she finally__________ it. She hugged me with __________, saying thanks to me. I smiled and said it was nothing.

Suddenly, I realized that helping someone was really something to me. I learned that giving from the heart doesn’t __________ mean sacrifice and hard work. The __________ is finding something we love to do and finding someone who __________ that something. Our generosity pan benefit others __________ ourselves. Once you have a good __________of it, it’s nothing. And it’s really something.

1.A. adapting to    B. recovering from    C. going through    D. taking up

2.A. guiding    B. fetching    C. driving    D. dragging

3.A. tight    B. common    C. strange    D. practical

4.A. ridiculous    B. cautious    C. tiresome    D. generous

5.A. disappointedly    B. hurriedly    C. angrily    D. unexpectedly

6.A. ignoring    B. forgetting    C. knowing    D. predicting

7.A. Somehow    B. Therefore    C. Otherwise    D. Moreover

8.A. regret    B. sadness    C. surprise    D. pleasure

9.A. willingness    B. ambition    C. promise    D. progress

10.A. referred    B. occurred    C. appeared    D. seemed

11.A. put up    B. give away    C. prepare for    D. deal with

12.A. begged    B. invited    C. recommended    D. sponsored

13.A. sensible    B. confusing    C. subjective    D. typical

14.A. got    B. meant    C. caught    D. made

15.A. gratitude    B. worry    C. concern    D. apology

16.A. normally    B. accidentally    C. possibly    D. necessarily

17.A. treat    B. trick    C. plot    D. plan

18.A. needs    B. admires    C. loves    D. defends

19.A. on account of    B. as well as    C. except for    D. regardless of

20.A. order    B. glimpse    C. command    D. impression