(江苏省盐城中学2007届高三第三次模拟考试)
When Nancy Lublin got $ 5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans. 36 , the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing 37 faced by most of today's low-income women: "If she goes for a job interview 38 dressed, she won't get the job," Lublin says. "But without a job, she can't 39 proper clothing."
A few weeks later, Lublin 40 Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to give away 41 business clothes that were 42 in good condition. She asked the members of diet centers to give away clothes that no longer fit. At first Lublin 43 the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment, but finally she found 44 in Greenwich Village church basement, which now 45 as the organization's main office.
Today, when women arrive at the office for help with job-hunting, they 46 a dress, shoes, a bag, stockings and jewelry, and self-confidence as well. Some are trying to enter the work 47 after being on welfare for years.
48 Dress for Success fitted its first person who got help a year ago, more than 1,000 women have received dresses and many have won 49 . Yarit Polanco was recently 50 as a law-firm office manager. "Thanks to Dress for Success, I made a good impression and was accepted," she says.
Donations are now 51 in, including jewelry and 6,000 pairs of trousers and $ 40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lublin is opening Dress for Success 52 in other cities. "Many women have clothes 53 around that they'll never wear again," says a volunteer. "Nancy's 54 is simple and practical and the 55 has proved so important to those women who are in great need of it."
36．A．Anyway B．Instead C．Fortunately D．Meanwhile
37．A．condition B．direction C．design D．plan
38．A．poorly B．well C．better D．worse
39．A．make B．find C．wear D．afford
40．A．reached B．called C．founded D．visited
41．A．used B．needed C．new D．torn
42．A．yet B．already C．almost D．still
43．A．hid B．stored C．discovered D．hanged
44．A．space B．employers C．work D．office
45．A．regards B．serves C．looks D．lies
46．A．buy B．sell C．receive D．watch
47．A．office B．victory C．wealth D．force
48．A．When B．Once C．Although D．Since
49．A．jobs B．shoes C．business D．prizes
50．A．fired B．hired C．interviewed D．considered
51．A．giving B．pouring C．showing D．sending
52．A．schools B．trades C．races D．branches
53．A．lying B．appearing C．collecting D．coming
54．A．promise B．belief C．idea D．opinion
55．A．help B．work C．shop D．money