阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项
I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.
As I __ my car, I saw one of my _ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _ , it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was __ I would be able to find my way back.
We __ about our work as I drove and __ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t __ me. But soon I __ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _ .
I was __ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my __ . It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I __ _ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, __ . Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _ _, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _ rolled his window down.
I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I __ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.
Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.
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A.discovered |
B.approached |
C.parked |
D.searched |
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A.patients |
B.classmates |
C.students |
D.workmates |
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A.yet |
B.still |
C.but |
D.besides |
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A.night |
B.morning |
C.afternoon |
D.noon |
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A.afraid |
B.happy |
C.confident |
D.sorry |
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A.worried |
B.cared |
C.talked |
D.explored |
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A.before |
B.if |
C.as |
D.though |
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A.Everything |
B.Nothing |
C.Anything |
D.Something |
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A.attract |
B.delight |
C.bother |
D.enjoy |
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A.escaped |
B.existed |
C.imagined |
D.realized |
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A.quiet |
B.calm |
C.silent |
D.brave |
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A.across |
B.over |
C.within |
D.beyond |
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A.wheel |
B.engine |
C.watch |
D.seat |
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A.drove |
B.deserted |
C.washed |
D.stopped |
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A.helpless |
B.excited |
C.satisfied |
D.delighted |
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A.shadow |
B.truck |
C.lady |
D.animal |
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A.faster |
B.nervously |
C.closer |
D.back |
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A.unlikely |
B.slowly |
C.carefully |
D.equally |
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A.came |
B.mistook |
C.recognized |
D.missed |
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A.pulled into |
B.drove away |
C.ran across |
D.fount out |
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