Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
  He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
  Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don"t get it! You can"t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
  Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, "Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood." I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive sid
e of life. I choose the positive side of life."
  "Yeah, right, it"s not that easy," I protested.
  "Yes, it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It"s your choice how you live life."
  I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
  Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe(保险柜), his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off (忘记，遗漏)the combination (开启号码锁的号码组合)。 The robbers panicked and shot him.
  Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma (创伤，外伤)center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
  I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I"d be twins. Wanna see my scars(伤疤)?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
  "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live." 杰里是那种你真想恨一恨的家伙。他是这样一种人--总是心情快乐、情绪高涨，总能说出积极的话来。当别人问他一切可好时，他就回答：”再好我就是双胞胎了！”
  认识杰里的时候，我还年轻，是一家餐饮公司的经理。他则是个与众不同的经理，因为到每家餐馆都有一些服务员围着他团团转。服务员围着杰里转是因为他的态度。他天生善于激励人。如果哪个雇员不走运了，杰里就去告诉他要往事情好的一面看。
  看到他如此作风我甚感好奇，于是一天我走到杰里跟前问他：”我不明白！你不可能一直保持积极乐观吧。你是怎么做的呢？”
  杰里回答说：”每天早上醒来后我对自己说：‘杰里，今天你有两个选择。你可以选择一个好心情，也可以选择一个坏心情。’我选择了好心情。每次坏事发生时，我可以选择成为受害者，也可以选择从中吸取教训。我选择了从中吸取教训。每当有人向我抱怨时，我可以选择听他们抱怨，或者给他们指出生活积极的一面。我选择了指出生活积极的一面。生活就是由许多选择组成的。”
  我仔细地考虑着杰里的话。不久后，我离开餐饮公司去追求个人发展。我们失去了联系，但是每当我对生活做抉择而非被动于生活的时候，就常常想起他。
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  几年之后，我听说杰里做了件在餐饮业里难以想像到的事情：一天早晨，他没关后门，三个持匪徒走进来，拿指着他。开保险箱的时候，他由于紧张，手从保险锁上滑下来。匪徒紧张之下开打穿了他的手，接着又有三枚子弹正中他的腹部。别人打电话叫医生的时候，他躺在地板上奄奄一息。他们赶紧把他送到当地的伤疗中心，经过18个小时的手术和几个星期的悉心护理后，过了一个月，他终于出院了。体内还残留着子弹的碎片。
  六个月后我见到了杰里。我问他身体怎样了，他答道：”再好我就是双胞胎了。想不想看看我的伤疤？”我没看他的伤疤，但我问他在抢劫案发生的时候，他脑子里在想些什么。
  “我首先想的，”杰里回答，”是我要是把后门锁上就好了。接着躺在地板上的时候，我想到自己有两个选择：我可以选择生，或者选择死。我选择了生。”
∙A new supermarket put on a notice at the entrance. It said, "Remember, once a week, one of our customers will get __ 41   goods. This may be your lucky day. " All the housewives_42   went to the supermarket wanted to be the lucky customer.
In the following several weeks, Mrs. Black _43__ did shopping in the same supermarket. Unlike many other customers, she never __44   hope. Her kitchen was full of things that she did not need. She dreamed of the __45__ when the manager of the supermarket would come and say to her. “Madam, this is your lucky day and __46__ in your basket is free."
One Friday morning, after she finished her shopping and had taken all the things _47   her
car, she realized that she had forgotten to buy some tea. She went back to the __48__ to buy the tea. As she was waiting at the cashier(收银台), the manager of the supermarket came to __49 _ and said, “Congratulations. Madam! You are our lucky customer and all that you __50__ in your basket is free!"
41. A. bad  B. heavy   C. free    D. big
42. A. who  B. which    C. whose  D. whom

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