Twenty years ago I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 AM. When I   21   -，I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor    22 
I walked to the door and knocked “Just a minute” answered a weak elderly      23
After a long pause the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood     24     me by her side was a small suitcase. I took the suitcase to the car and then   25to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked   26 toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It’s nothing” I told her. “I just try to   27   my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.” “Oh you’re such a good man.” She said. When we got into the taxi she gave me an address and then asked“Could you drive   28  downtown”
“It’s not the shortest way” I answered quickly.
“Oh I’m   29  ” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice临终医院. I don’t have any   30   left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I quietly reached over and   31   the meter计价器.
For the next two hours we drove through the city. She   32   me the building where she had once worked the neighborhood where she had lived and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone  33   as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a   34  building and would sit staring into the darkness saying nothing.
At  35   she suddenly said” I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the   36  she had given me. “How much do I   37  you” she asked. “Nothing.” I said. “You have to make a living” she answered. “Oh there are other   38  ” I answered. Almost without thinking I   39   and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark“You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.”
I walked into the  40  morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

A．waited B．stopped C．arrived D．wandered

A．window B．house C．door D．glass

A．sound B．whisper C．sign D．voice

A．beneath B．before C．behind D．over

A．walked B．left C．returned D．stepped

A．calmly B．hurriedly C．quietly D．slowly

A．receive B．collect C．treat D．drive

A．through B．from C．to D．towards

A．out of work B．in no hurry C．on no purpose D．out of danger

A．hope B．money C．time D．family

A．turned on B．shut off C．switched over D．covered up

A．showed B．pointed C．indicated D．forgot

A．working B．growing C．playing D．dancing

A．memorial B．significant C．particular D．similar

A．dawn B．sunset C．noon D．night

A．house B．address C．direction D．destination

A．pay B．owe C．promise D．save

A．cars B．buildings C．passengers D．chances

A．nodded B．landed C．swung D．bent

A．dim B．colorful C．bright D．black