I’ve spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that    1    is an occupational disease. But one year, my    2    gave me the cure for my homesickness.
It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet--- a stuffed penguin (企鹅) that   3    about five inches tall. Attached to its left wing    4    a little sign with the hand-painted declaration “ I Love My Dad!”. I immediately  5    the penguin on my table.
On my next trip, I put the   6    in my suitcase. That night when I called home, my daughter Jeanine was    7    because the penguin had disappeared. “Honey, he’s here with me,” I explained, “ I brought him    8  ”.
   9   , the penguin came with me --- as necessary as my briefcase. And we     10    along the way. In Albuquerque, I checked into a    11   , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting. When I returned, the maid had    12    the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow.
One night, I discovered the penguin    13   , and after a mad phone call, I learned I’d    14    it in my previous hotel room,    15    it had been rescued by a maid. I       16      a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk. In the hotel lobby (大厅), other tired business travelers were    17      at the reunion of my penguin and me --- I think with a touch of    18   .
Jeanine is in college now, and I don’t travel    19   . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion. All those years on    20   , it was the one thing I never left home without.

A．cold B．hunger C．loneliness D．fever

A．boy B．daughter C．friend D．mother

A．stood B．lay C．jumped D．climbed

A．wrote B．turned C．was D．had

A．threw B．lost C．gave D．placed

A．bear B．penguin C．dog D．rabbit

A．upset B．happy C．glad D．excited

A．up B．off C．along D．down

A．From now on B．In the future C．In future D．From then on

A．had friends B．had friend C．made friends D．made friend

A．school B．hotel C．shop D．supermarket

A．given B．turned C．made D．carried

A．sleeping B．going C．living D．missing

A．forget B．left C．ordered D．sent

A．there B．when C．where D．how

A．ran B．walked C．hurried D．drove

A．surprised B．frightened C．looked D．laughed

A．anger B．envy C．sadness D．illness

A．as many B．as seldom C．so little D．as much

A．the hotel B．the meeting C．the road D．the house