完型填空。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to ___31___ a passager at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to ___32___ the passager, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the___33___ and knocked,“Just a minute,”answered a weak ,elderly voice. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman ___34___ her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the car,and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness.“It’s __35____,”I told her,“I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother __36____.”
“Oh, you’re such a good man,”she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an ___37___,and then asked,“could you drive ___38___ downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,”I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,”she said,“I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院).I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I ___39____ reached over and__40____ the meter(计价器)
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the buildings, __41____ the manufactory where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived , and the furniture shop __42____had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to solw down in front of a __43____ building and would sit staring into the darkness, say nothing.
__44____, she suddenly said,“I’m tired, Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
“___45___ do I owe you?”she asked.
“Nothing,”I said.
“You ___46___ make a living,”she answered. “Oh, there are other ___47_____.”I answered.
Almost without thinking. I __48____ and gave her a hug. She __49____ me. Our hug ended with her remark,“You gave an old woman a little moment of __50____.”
| 小题1: | | A．call in | B．show around | C．pick up | D．bring back |
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| 小题2: | | A．discover | B．collect | C．send | D．offer |
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| 小题3: | | A．window | B．room | C．taxi | D．door |
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| 小题5: | | A．nothing | B．worthless | C．unimportant | D．useless |
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| 小题6: | | A．treated | B．had | C．received | D．commanded |
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| 小题7: | | A．hand | B．hug | C．address | D．map |
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| 小题8: | | A．for | B．across | C．from | D．through |
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| 小题9: | | A．quickly | B．calmly | C．nervously | D．quietly |
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| 小题10: | | A．shut off | B．take out | C．put down | D．break down |
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| 小题11: | | A．including | B．concerning | C．containing | D．regarding |
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| 小题12: | | A．where | B．what | C．that | D．there |
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| 小题13: | | A．beautiful | B．normal | C．unusual | D．particular |
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| 小题14: | | A．At dawn | B．At night | C．At noon | D．At dusk |
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| 小题15: | | A．How many | B．Why | C．How much | D．Which |
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| 小题16: | | A．should | B．must | C．have to | D．would |
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| 小题17: | | A．people | B．travellers | C．customers | D．passengers |
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| 小题18: | | A．bent | B．rose | C．stood | D．turned |
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| 小题19: | | A．cared about | B．hold onto | C．gave in to | D．kept away from |
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| 小题20: | | A．pity | B．fun | C．joy | D．freedom |
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