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