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No Direction Home In August last year, my parents and I visited our relatives in Princeton Junction,...
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No Direction Home
In August last year, my parents and I visited our relatives in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Every day I enjoyed walking a circular way starting from their house. One evening I decided to be adventurous and changed from my ______ way—I was looking forward to a longer walk, ______ that I would be able to find my way back.
My walk took me ______ the living area and into a beautiful place with an expanse of fields on both sides of the road. With the sun beginning to ______, it was really a wonderful sight. After about thirty minutes, I noticed that I was not ______ back in the direction I had come—in fact I seemed to be moving further away. I searched my pocket for the mobile phone to get help, but it wasn’ t there. I had ______it at home.
However, I remained ______. Although there weren’ t any people about, there was some ______ and I was sure that someone would stop and ______ me in the right direction. As each car or truck came, I stopped and ______, but time after time each one passed me by. No one seemed to feel any ______ for me. About forty minutes, I was beginning to feel ______. There was no one in sight and my family was completely in the dark as to my ______.
When I just gave up all hope, a black SUV ______ me and stopped. A mother and daughter wanted to know how they could help. I told them I was lost and gave them my address. The mother pointed to a turning a little further down the road and ______ me I was pretty close to home. Expressing my thanks, I started off at a fast ______.
I had been walking for about five minutes when I heard a car drive up behind me and stop. It was the mother and daughter again. They realized that they had not given me the correct ______ and my destination was much further away.
They offered to ______ me home, and I was so grateful for their help. During our brief conversation I got the ______ that the teenage daughter was going to a school party and would now arrive late. We didn’ t ______ names but I will never forget their act of kindness.
1.A. proper B. regular C. general D. similar
2.A. confident B. grateful C. ashamed D. proud
3.A. within B. round C. toward D. beyond
4.A. shine B. rise C. set D. fade
5.A. heading B. keeping C. taking D. looking
6.A. lost B. left C. held D. sent
7.A. silent B. crazy C. awake D. calm
8.A. delay B. control C. traffic D. service
9.A. point B. remind C. inform D. follow
10.A. cheered B. waved C. sighed D. nodded
11.A. sympathy B. satisfaction C. respect D. responsibility
12.A. innocent B. ridiculous C. fortunate D. desperate
13.A. routine B. judgment C. position D. impression
14.A. surrounded B. approached C. preserved D. accompanied
15.A. supported B. defended C. corrected D. promised
16.A. pace B. track C. level D. stage
17.A. decision B. schedule C. direction D. procedure
18.A. charge B. drop C. allow D. reach
19.A. goal B. permit C. attention D. sense
20.A. sign B. list C. exchange D. call
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