It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the 小题1: and take my seat. I 小题2: the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner. I start to take out my books, 小题3: full well that I will be 小题4: on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s 小题5: —for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be 小题6: . Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am 小题7: with the usual big hugs and smiles. 小题8: , the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home 小题9: the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and 小题10: new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our 小题11: home. During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 小题12: the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously 小题13: to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it. So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were 小题14: great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my 小题15: would improve. Right? Well…. But that’s not the 小题16: . I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information 小题17: the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is 小题18: about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as 小题19: to me as my Social Security number. Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the 小题20: free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves. 小题21: A．friends B．strangers C．regulars D．waiters 小题22: A．make B．take C．bring D．order 小题23: A．remembering B．knowing C．deciding D．learning 小题24: A．stuck B．focused . C．fixed D．turned 小题25: A．certain B．early C．late D．clear 小题26: A．washed B．cleaned C．filled D．covered 小题27: A．armed B．satisfied C．occupied D．greeted 小题28: A．Finally B．Suddenly C．Actually D．Particularly 小题29: A．away from B．similar to C．apart from D．close to 小题30: A．create B．play C．write D．hear 小题31: A．inner B．outer C．warmer D．smaller 小题32: A．answer B．talk C．mention D．mend 小题33: A．choose B．determine C．pretend D．expect 小题34: A．pretty B．that C．too D．rather 小题35: A．health B．friendship C．conditions D．grades 小题36: A．place B．benefit C．point D．view 小题37: A．relate B．requiring C．reflecting D．regarding 小题38: A．also B．still C． more D．even 小题39: A．available B．beneficial C．familiar D．encouraging 小题40: A．special B．occasional C．unusual D．natural