完形填空,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Two years ago, a restaurant had fallen upon hard times. Only five ________were left: the manager and four others, all over 60 years old.
In the town near the restaurant there ________ a successful businessman who was good at managing business, so the manager ________ to ask the businessman if he could offer any advice that might ________ the restaurant. The manager and the businessman talked for a long period of time, ________ when he was asked for advice, the businessman ________ for a while and then said, “I have no________to give. The ________ thing I can tell you is that the saver is one of you.”
The manager, returning to the restaurant ________ , told the other people what the businessman had said. In the months that followed, the old restaurant workers thought________ of the words of the businessman, “The saver is one of us?” They asked themselves. As they ________ about this possibility, they all began to treat each other with ________ respect. And thinking that each of themselves ________ be the saver, they also began to treat themselves with more care.
________ time went by, people coming to the restaurant ________that some respect and warm kindness were around the five old members of the small restaurant. Hardly knowing ________ , more people began to come back to the restaurant. They began to ________ their friends, and theirs brought more friends. Two years later, the small restaurant had once again ________a big food company, thanks to the businessman’s ________. They understood that it was they themselves that were the ________ .
1.A. members B. waiters C. cooks D. customers
2.A. lived B. stood C. lay D. sat
3.A. hoped B. decided C. allowed D. began
4.A. build B. change C. sell D. save
5.A. but B. and C. until D. so
6.A. rest B. laughed C. stopped D. wasted
7.A. money B. advice C. food D. clothes
8.A. least B. most C. simple D. only
9.A. hopefully B. angrily C. lively D. nervously
10.A. strangely B. angrily C. carefully D. excitedly
11.A. heard B. guessed C. worried D. thought
12.A. similar B. strange C. special D. strong
13.A. need B. might C. have to D. dare
14.A. With B. Since C. Before D. As