I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large
16 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would
17 his taxi on the road. I
18 why he did not park it in the garage.
Then, one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home
19 work, leave his taxi and go out for his
20 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was
21 .I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I
22 to be outside one evening two weeks
23 , when the garage door was
24 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely
25 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But
26 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）
27 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and
28 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）
29 .
We go to bed every night and
30 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a
31 as close friends or go for a vacation as a
32 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we
33 the social ladder(阶梯)—how much bigger and better a
34 we have. And we ignore(忽视)our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on
35 we are than what we do!
| 小题1: | | A．window | B．garage | C．door | D．yard |
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| 小题2: | | A．park | B．stop | C．check | D．repair |
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| 小题3: | | A．knew | B．understood | C．asked | D．wondered |
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| 小题4: | | A．for | B．out of | C．without | D．from |
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| 小题5: | | A．business | B．national | C．personal | D．public |
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| 小题6: | | A．wasteful | B．meaningful | C．wonderful | D．plentiful |
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| 小题7: | | A．appeared | B．intended | C．expected | D．happened |
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| 小题8: | | A．later | B．more | C．ago | D．before |
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| 小题9: | | A．broken | B．fine | C．shut | D．open |
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| 小题10: | | A．once | B．before | C．when | D．until |
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| 小题11: | | A．far | B．deep | C．long | D．little |
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| 小题12: | | A．driver | B．engineer | C．father | D．son |
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| 小题13: | | A．called | B．made | C．elected | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．experience | B．earning | C．life | D．position |
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| 小题15: | | A．stay up | B．wake up | C．stay home | D．go home |
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| 小题16: | | A．competition | B．performance | C．debate | D．party |
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| 小题17: | | A．family | B．company | C．team | D．whole |
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| 小题18: | | A．build | B．climb | C．stand | D．lay |
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| 小题19: | | A．house | B．garage | C．car | D．taxi |
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| 小题20: | | A．who | B．what | C．which | D．where |
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