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     “Hi!  How are you? ” A woman smiled as she took the seat beside me. She had to lower herself slowly, squeezing her fat body into the seat,    16    all available space. I    17    a little towards the window, feeling worried silently about the long hours of    18    I was going to experience with this monster（巨物）beside me.
     She said, “My name is Laura. I’m from Britain. If we’re going to spend six hours side by side on this    19   , we’d better be friends. ” Then she started a conversation with me and didn’t    20    my unfriendly reactions. She talked  21  about herself and her trip to Hong Kong.
     I gave her one-word answers to her questio ns about me. Not affected by my 22  , she nodded as she made    23    about my answers. She was warm and considerate,   24    that I had room to stretch in my seat.
I couldn’t help but let down my    25    slowly. L aura was an interesting conversationalist. During our conversation, Laura    26    to make every crew member on the plane who    27    us walk away laughing at her jokes.
     I asked Laura, “Have you ever    28    losing some weight? ”“No. I don’t trust the advertisements from slimming centers at all. ”“You aren’t worried about the diseases that come with being    29   ? ”“Not at all. You only    30    the diseases if you’re worried about your weight all the time. I eat    31    and walk regularly;  I’m this size    32    I was born to be big!  There is more to life than worrying about weight all day long. ” She drank her wine. “Besides, God gave me so much happiness that I need a    33    body to hold all of it!  Why would I lose weight to lose my happiness? ”
     34    by her unusual reasoning, I smiled. I suddenly    35    that Laura was the most beautiful woman I had ever met in my life.
16. A. filling  B. making  C. finding    D. clearing
17. A. walked  B. turned   C. moved    D. b acked
18. A. noise  B. pain                                C. silence   D. discomfort
19. A. bus  B. train                             C. flight    D. ship
20. A. look into   B. take notice of                   C. look for   D. take control of
21. A. excitedly  B. nervously                        C. angrily    D. sadly
22. A. doubt  B. disappointment                C. coldness    D. dissatisfaction
23. A. notes  B. comments                       C. predictions   D. conclusions
24. A. finding out  B. believing in                     C. making sure   D. feeling like
25. A. attention  B. attitude                           C. idea    D. guard
26. A. managed  B. pretended                       C. forgot    D. failed
27. A. charged  B. served   C. treated    D. warned
28. A. suffered from B. cared about                     C. benefited from   D. thought about
29. A. overweight  B. critical                            C. embarrassed                D. anxious
30. A. prevent  B. get                                 C. understand   D. remove
31. A. slowly  B. hardly                             C. healthily   D. probably
32. A. if   B. because  C. though    D. until
33. A. bigger  B. thinner   C. lower                 D. longer
34. A. Encouraged  B. Upset                              C. Exhausted   D. Surprised
35. A. hoped  B. imagined                         C. realized   D. remembered

【解析】

16. 选A。根据句中squeezing her fat body into the seat可知，这个女人占了所有可能获得的空间。
17. 选C。根据句中feeling worried silently. . . this monster beside me可知，作者往窗户边上移动了一点。
18. 选D。根据句中this monster beside me可知，作者感觉和这个胖女人在一起不舒服。
19. 选C。根据第四段中every crew member on the plane可得出答案。
20. 选B。根据第三段中Not affected by. . . 可知，这个女人并没有注意到作者不友好的反应。
21. 选A。根据第四段中Laura was an interesting conversationalist. 可得出答案。
22. 选C。根据I gave her one-word answers可知，作者比较冷淡。
23. 选B。根据语境可知，这个女人一边评论作者的回答一边点头。
24. 选C。根据句中She was warm and considerate可知，这个女人保证作者能伸展开。
25. 选D。根据后句中Laura was an interesting conversationalist. 可知，作者慢慢放松了警惕。
26. 选A。根据句中walk away laughing at her jokes可推断，这个女人能够使每个人笑着离开。
27. 选B。根据常识可知，机组人员是为顾客服务的。
28. 选D。根据后句中I don’ t trust the advertisements from slimming centers at all可知，作者问这个女人有没有想过减肥。
29. 选A。根据后句中you’re worried about your weight可得出答案。
30. 选B。根据上一问句句意可推断，此处指得病。
31. 选C。根据句中walk regularly可知，与之对应的是，饮食很健康。
32. 选B。根据前后半句内容可知，这里为因果关系，用because。
33. 选A。根据后句内容可知，这个女人不想减肥，因为她需要更大的身体来装下这些快乐。
34. 选D。根据句中her unusual reasoning可推断，作者很惊讶。
35. 选C。根据语境可推断，作者意识到这个胖女人是自己遇到过的最美的女人。