题目内容：

I was on a plane returning home to Dallas, Texas after completing my duty in Vietnam. There were no hometown parades for us veterans （退役老兵） from that _________ war and I had been warned about the unfriendliness from our countrymen at that time. _________, I was just trying to get home without incident.

I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, _________ eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting in the seat next to me, which _________ my loneliness. A little girl, not more than 10 years old, suddenly _________ in the passage. She smiled and, without a word,_________ handed me a magazine. I accepted her _________ together with her quiet “welcome home”. I turned to the window and wept. Her small _________ of caring was the first I had _________ in a long time.

I believe in the __________ between strangers when we reach out to one another.

Today, that young girl __________ has no memory of what happened years ago. I like to think of her as having grown up, continuing to __________ others and teaching her children to do the same. I know she might have been told to give me the “__________” by her parents. It doesn’t matter why she gave me the magazine. The __________ thing is she did.

From then on, I have followed her __________ and tried, in different ways for __________people, to do the same for them. I know that my __________ since then are all due to that little girl. Her offer of a magazine to a tired, scared and __________ soldier has echoed throughout my __________. I have to believe that my small gestures have the same __________ on others.

1.A. fair    B. great    C. unpopular    D. unexpected

2.A. However    B. Therefore    C. Besides    D. Meanwhile

3.A. making    B. keeping    C. reducing    D. avoiding

4.A. resulted from    B. accounted for    C. contributed to    D. added to

5.A. screamed    B. appeared    C. jumped    D. waved

6.A. anxiously    B. casually    C. shyly    D. unconsciously

7.A. admiring    B. offering    C. apology    D. invitation

8.A. gesture    B. discussion    C. idea    D. exchange

9.A. predicted    B. imagined    C. experienced    D. evaluated

10.A. coincidence    B. connection    C. conflict    D. conversation

11.A. ridiculously    B. surprisingly    C. undoubtedly    D. unfortunately

12.A. panic    B. tease    C. touch    D. judge

13.A. gift    B. lesson    C. reminder    D. reward

14.A. important    B. unusual    C. appropriate    D. concrete

15.A. advice    B. dream    C. example    D. requirement

16.A. old    B. wounded    C. homeless    D. different

17.A. worries    B. attempts    C. puzzles    D. emotions

18.A. unfit    B. tough    C. lonely    D. desperate

19.A. life    B. duty    C. career    D. journey

20.A. stress    B. effect    C. threat    D. consequence