题目内容：

I was having a period of bad health. I had one operation after another. I was falling _______ faster than the doctors could put me back together. But I just couldn’t bear the operation, the hospital stay, the long recovery and the physical therapy（康复治疗）. I told my doctor I was going to try _______ else.

I’d discovered that walking gave me a little _______. So I started walking. The first day, my wife _______ off our steep Silver Lake hill to a flat street. She got me out of the car, and I walked about two blocks _______ asking to be taken home. The next day, I walked about four _______.

Slowly, feeling a little _______ every day, I began to walk a mile or more. I even _______ some hills to my route. I became interested in the network of public stairways around Silver Lake I made a _______ of it and walked every public staircase in Silver Lake. That went pretty well, so I ________ onto Echo Park. I was feeling better, so I kept going. The search finally ________ “Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles’ ”a book ________ in the spring of 2010. By then, I had ________. I’d been walking at least an hour a day for three years. My life ________ returned to normal.

In three years of walks, I’ve met dozens of people who’d had ________ experiences of rebirth or recovery. One man told me he’d lost 80 pounds walking the secret stairs and was dating for the first time in a decade. One woman told me she’d ________ knee operation. Another told me she’d been ________ to start ballroom dancing again.

All I’d ________ from the walks was relief from pain. What I got was ________, community and a whole new experience of my city. Out of the car, on my feet and moving at walking pace, I ________ Los Angeles for the first time.

1.A. away    B. apart    C. asleep    D. about

2.A. everything    B. nothing    C. something    D. anything

3.A. courage    B. confidence    C. relief    D. delight

4.A. drove    B. took    C. set    D. gave

5.A. then    B. before    C. until    D. while

6.A. miles    B. kilometers    C. blocks    D. streets

7.A. happier    B. calmer    C. faster    D. stronger

8.A. found    B. added    C. challenged    D. climbed

9.A. review    B. search    C. goal    D. task

10.A. moved    B. worked    C. carried    D. brought

11.A. put into    B. knocked into    C. broke into    D. turned into

12.A. bought    B. formed    C. published    D. created

13.A. picked up    B. brought up    C. went up    D. kept up

14.A. generally    B. recently    C. gradually    D. effectively

15.A. same    B. particular    C. extra    D. similar

16.A. received    B. avoided    C. suffered    D. stood

17.A. able    B. worried    C. likely    D. anxious

18.A. benefited    B. attempted    C. dreamed    D. sought

19.A. home    B. neighborhood    C. success    D. friendship

20.A. caught sight of    B. thought highly of    C. fell in love with    D. settled down in