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____.”
A.call in B.show around C.pick up D.bring back
A.discover B.collect C.send D.offer
A.window B.room C.taxi D.door
A.in B.of C.about D.on
A.nothing B.worthless C.unimportant D.useless
A.treated B.had C.received D.commanded
A.hand B.hug C.address D.map
A.for B.across C.from D.through
A.quickly B.calmly C.nervously D.quietly
A.shut off B.take out C.put down D.break down
A.including B.concerning C.containing D.regarding
A.where B.what C.that D.there
A.beautiful B.normal C.unusual D.particular
A.At dawn B.At night C.At noon D.At dusk
A.How many B.Why C.How much D.Which
A.should B.must C.have to D.would
A.people B.travellers C.customers D.passengers
A.bent B.rose C.stood D.turned
A.cared about B.hold onto C.gave in to D.kept away from
A.pity B.fun C.joy D.freedom