题目内容：

    I don’t talk with passengers on airplanes. My flight time is ______ for turning the pages of a good book. That changed, ______, on a flight from Tampa to Newark when I sat next to her ---the lady in Seat 26B.

After ______ my seat, I opened my book.

Then she ______me. “And where are you traveling to? Home or on vacation?”

“Heading home,” I closed my book. “You?”

“Oh, home, too,” she began, “I come from a(n) ______ family. Nine kids! I’m the oldest ______ alive---eighty-nine!” And then she laughed, joyfully. I wouldn’t have ______ she was nearly ninety, though.

“Good book?” she asked, pointing to my paperback.

“Yes. Do you read?”

“Oh, I don’t have ______ to read,” she replied.

I’m sixty years younger than 26B, yet she’s the one who’s too busy to read? What on earth could she be doing with her ______?

“Well,” she began, “I work at Costco. There are ______ nice people. There are also the ______ ones, but I enjoy them, too!” She laughed again, and I ______ her ability to not let negative energies affect her ______. I wondered how I could ______ that, too.

“What’s your secret,” I asked, “to sounding so ______ and healthy?”

“My husband died ten years ago,” she said, ______. “I thought to myself, I’m not going to just ______! That’s when I got my Costco job. I believe in being active.”

“Life is so good,” she ______, “I’m just excited every day to live it!”

I wanted that plane ride to reroute to California so I would have more time to learn about her energy for life. I became more ______ with each mile we flew.

I told myself, if someone who is eighty-nine years old can choose to live her life with such ______ and passion, I can, too. If you have the drive!

1.A. reserved B. adjusted C. squeezed D. limited

2.A. thus B. instead C. though D. rather

3.A. slipping into B. searching for C. clearing up D. settling into

4.A. came to B. bent to C. turned to D. pointed to

5.A. complex B. nuclear C. wealthy D. extended

6.A. yet B. even C. still D. ever

7.A. predicted B. admitted C. guessed D. doubted

8.A. time B. patience C. abilities D. chances

9.A. days B. talent C. books D. interest

10.A. really B. actually C. seemingly D. probably

11.A. learned B. weird C. ambitious D. innocent

12.A. weighed B. admired C. realized D. identified

13.A. aim B. fate C. taste D. mood

14.A. obtain B. manage C. control D. imagine

15.A. academic B. realistic C. positive D. creative

16.A. sadly B. coldly C. seriously D. peacefully

17.A. hang out B. sit around C. step back D. get away

18.A. responded B. continued C. recalled D. declared

19.A. astonished B. satisfied C. delighted D. inspired

20.A. desire B. wisdom C. courage D. confidence