If you’ve ridden any New York subway, chances are good that you’ve watched your cellphone clock tick while seated on an unmoving, delayed train. You wouldn’t wish to have such a ____1____ feeling of being stuck on public transportation anymore. No one knows the feeling as ____2____ as Jerich Marco Alcantara does particularly when he had ____3____ in his life to celebrate. He ____4____ his graduation ceremony at Hunter College’s Brookdale campus due to a delay.
There were two ____5____ ceremonies that day, but Alcantara specifically wanted to ____6____ the early ceremony, because students were only ____7____ two tickets for friends and family at the latter event. He wanted all of his family and friends in attendance.
Stuck on the train in full baccalaureate gown (学士服), Alcantara still got to experience a formal ____8____, sort of. Some friends and strangers improvised (即兴创作) a ceremony on the subway. ____9____ a cellphone, a friend presented Alcantara with a “diploma”; _____10_____ somebody else on the train played Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day. Another passenger _____11_____ the ceremony and posted the video to Facebook.
____12____ he wasn’t able to attend the full ceremony, in a way this will end up being a more memorable _____13_____ for Alcantara down the road. He will be able to point to his _____14_____ and not just think of the hard work it took to earn it, but the _____15_____ missing his real graduation ceremony created.
Moments like these help us get a little more _____16_____ of our fellow man during a _____17_____time. Although these aren’t all strangers, it’s still wonderful to see people _____18_____ to make sure someone feels the proper _____19_____, or at least their big achievement should be _____20_____. Though Alcantara missed his official graduation ceremony, he said his subway experience meant a lot.
1. A. rising B. sinking C. spinning D. floating
2. A. vividly B. casually C. plainly D. fiercely
3. A. milestones B. promotions C. festivals D. parties
4. A. spoiled B. quitted C. overlooked D. missed
5. A. separate B. continuous C. relevant D. contradictory
6. A. join B. make C. abandon D. ignore
7. A. appointed B. allocated C. approved D. accumulated
8. A. assembly B. situation C. occasion D. meeting
9. A. Via B. On C. In D. From
10. A. instead B. afterwards C. therefore D. meanwhile
11. A. filmed B. took C. interviewed D. reported
12. A. Since B. As C. Although D. When
13. A. exploration B. moment C. impression D. stage
14. A. video B. ticket C. diploma D. cellphone
15. A. pain B. inconvenience C. excitement D. memory
16. A. convinced B. tired C. reliant D. faithful
17. A. messy B. extreme C. acute D. disorganized
18. A. get together B. gather together C. put together D. band together
19. A. acquisition B. cooperation C. recognition D. evaluation
20. A. welcomed B. applauded C. calculated D. encouraged
