+Ilearnedmyfirstlessonatameeting.AswesataroundthetableI...

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+I learned my first lesson at a meeting. As we sat around the table I heard Meg, who was ___21___a recent operation, talking to Judith, the manager of our project. “Thank you so much for ___22___my daughters to their dance lessons last week.” Judith said, “It was nothing.”

Knowing how ___23___Judith’s schedule was, I found her driving Meg’s children to lessons unbelievably ___24___. I was about to say more about this when Donna, another colleague, entered the room ___25___. She apologized for being late, saying she just hosted a lunch for her friends who were over seventy. “That is so nice of you,” I said, ___26___how busy she was, how she didn’t like to cook and clean. “Oh,” she said, waving her hand, “It was nothing.” ___27___, I could still tell the ___28___in her voice. She did gain a sense of satisfaction from the entertainment offered to her friends.

Seeing their ___29___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 ____30____to me that once I spent a whole afternoon after work helping a friend ____31____a speech. I ____32____her to rearrange the sequence of the stories in the lecture to make it sound more ____33____. After the fifth try, she finally ____34____it. She hugged me with ____35____, 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 ____36____mean sacrifice and hard work. The ____37____is finding something we love to do and finding someone who ____38____that something. Our generosity can benefit others ____39____ourselves. Once you have a good ____40____ of it, it’s nothing. And it’s really something.

21. A. adapting to      B. recovering from    C. going through      D. rejoicing in

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

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

24. A. ridiculous       B. energetic        C. tiresome             D. generous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33. A. sensible         B. confusing        C. sensitive                D. typical

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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