第二节 完形填空（20小题，每题1.5分，共30分）I work in a company in India.

第二节 完形填空（20小题，每题1.5分，共30分）
I work in a company in India. And it has___36____in Germany and the UK, so I __37___take business trips to these places. We have a(n)__38__at the office by which anybody coming back to India from a foreign countr gets chocolates for all the__39___. Naturally the chocolates are finished___40___because everyone loves them and____41____to grab as many as possible. I had noticed that the housekeeping staff(勤杂人员)___42___in our company never got to__43___even a single chocolate.
Recently,I came back to__44___after a month-long trip from MUNICH and I’d bought a lot of chocolates for the office staff. I called over___45___of the housekeeping staff members called Babu. I gave him a box of chocolates and told him to distribute it ___46___among the housekeeping staff. His face immediately broke into a wide smile and this made me__47__.
But the story doesn’t___48____here. The best part of it all was that Babu actually distributed the chocolates among everyone equally,___49___giving extra choclates to a woman who has a 5-year-old son. It was so___50___for me to see this. I find it really___51____to understand how we, who have the money to buy chocolates and other goodies, do not even feel like__52___and just think how much we can grab. ___53___, Babu, who earns only just about enough to raise his family, was so__54___and did not even keep one extra chocolate for himself.
It made me__55____one simple question: Which is better, having a little less money but being kind and generous or having lots of money but being selfish?
36. A. goverments B. machines C. branches D. buildings
37. A. seldom B. frequently C. hardlyD.never
38. A. order B. theory C. example D. tradition
39. A. employees B. children C. leaders D. managers
40. A. at a time B. in time C. in no time D. on time
41. A. pretends B. fails C. hesitates D. tries
42. A. studying B. working C. playing D. helping
43. A. taste B. smell C. buy D. make
44. A. Germany B. England C. India D. China
45. A. those B. onesC. that D. one
46. A. unfairly B. equally C. extremely D.secertly
47. A. happy B.sad C. disappointed D. frightened
48. A.start B. continue C. end D. last
49. A. still B. yetC. instead D.even
50. A.tiring B. touching C. worrying D.interesting
51. A. easy B. funny C. hard D. strange
52. A.sharing B. dividing C. changing D.enjoying
53. A. What’s more B. In reality C. Worse still D. On the other hand
54. A. diligent B. generous C. brave D.intelligent
55. A. make up B. figure out C. think of D. take off