(2017·合肥质检一)
Recently divorced and unemployed, I was on my way downtown to do the rounds of the employment offices.I had no umbrella, for my old one had__36__, and I could not__37__another one.
I sat down in the__38__and there against my seat was a(n)__39__silk umbrella with a silver handle.I had__40__seen anything so lovely.I examined the handle and saw a carved__41__.The procedure would have been to__42__the umbrella to the conductor, but an idea__43__to me.I decided to take it with me and find the owner myself.
I got off the bus in a downpour and__44__opened the umbrella to protect myself.Then I__45__a telephone book for the name on the umbrella.I called and a lady__46__.
Yes, she said __47__, that was her umbrella, which her parents, now dead, had given her as a birthday present.But, she__48__, it had been stolen__49__her doorstep a month before.
She was so excited that I__50__I was looking for a job and went directly to her house.She took the umbrella, and her eyes were filled with__51__.She wanted to give me a__52__, but – though twenty dollars was all I had in the world—her happiness at regaining this__53__possession was beyond words and I believed accepting her money would have__54__something.We talked for a while and I left.
A week later, I got a job as a sales manager__55__.It might be my kindness that paid off.But who knows?
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