Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting.

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问题 Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important【C1】______: giving-away makes life so much more exciting. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store【C2】______to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. If an accident takes place, the【C3】______of which I think the local police could use, I call him up and tell him about it, though I am not in【C4】______here. One discovery I made about this world is to give【C5】______getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form.
One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home, though it was【C6】______to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of【C7】______More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to【C8】______, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. "Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?" I said it was. "Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office【C9】______we make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get【C10】______but complaints(投诉). " [br] 【C5】

选项 A、within
B、without
C、for
D、before

答案 B

解析本题考查介词使用。上文列举的事例都表明作者想主动帮助别人而不希望得到什么，故选without。

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