It was a cold winter's night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work．I was tired and had a slight
21 ．
I worked in a
22 doctor's office and this was one of those days when the unexpected happened, making the schedule run
23 than usual．It seemed I was going to be late
24 home and my husband, being the
25 person, would be ready to pronounce me late once again． Maybe
26 I hurried, I could still make it home．
I was heading inside to
27 for my gas when I noticed an older couple at the counter, I heard them asking for
28 to the local hospital．It was the same hospital that I had just
29 a few minutes ago．
The young man at the counter was trying to be
30 in explaining how to get there, with two other people making
31 ．One of them was
32 trying to give them a whole different route back．It was then that I walked over to the couple and said, "Would you like to follow me to the
33 ?"
A look of
34 crossed the woman's face．
"I'm going right by there," I said, which wasn't a（ an）
35 since I had just made up my mind to do
36 that．
I got in my car and began the journey back．I was trying to watch to be sure they were right
37 me．I took only fifteen minutes to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to
38 ．I felt better than I had all day and my headache was
39 gone．
Later, as I arrived home, my husband teased, "So you aren't ever late any more．"
"Sometimes it's
40 to be late," I said, happy inside my heart．
| 小题1: | | A．cold | B．fever | C．stomachache | D．headache |
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| 小题2: | | A．foreign | B．regular | C．busy | D．noisy |
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| 小题3: | | A．earlier | B．later | C．easier | D．simpler |
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| 小题4: | | A．getting | B．cooking | C．calling | D．working |
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| 小题5: | | A．lazy | B．punctual | C．generous | D．careful |
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| 小题7: | | A．pay | B．change | C．wait | D．search |
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| 小题8: | | A．opinions | B．trouble | C．directions | D．money |
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| 小题9: | | A．reached | B．visited | C．called | D．left |
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| 小题10: | | A．skilled | B．helpful | C．experienced | D．active |
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| 小题11: | | A．comments | B．promises | C．surveys | D．offers |
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| 小题12: | | A．only | B．still | C．even | D．ever |
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| 小题13: | | A．station | B．office | C．hospital | D．hotel |
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| 小题14: | | A．panic | B．relief | C．sadness | D．peace |
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| 小题15: | | A．duty | B．fact | C．reason | D．lie |
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| 小题16: | | A．partly | B．properly | C．exactly | D．perfectly |
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| 小题17: | | A．across | B．before | C．beside | D．behind |
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| 小题18: | | A．go up | B．die down | C．speed up | D．turn down |
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| 小题19: | | A．nearly | B．hardly | C．possibly | D．luckily |
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| 小题20: | | A．possible | B．special | C．good | D．safe |
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