【2013浙江杭州】Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that ________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light ________ me. I think I stopped ________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow ________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do ________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so ________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
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A.fast |
B.slowly |
C.carefully |
D.hard |
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A.late |
B.alone |
C.worried |
D.afraid |
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A.green |
B.yellow |
C.red |
D.dark |
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A.return |
B.change |
C.start |
D.continue |
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A.attention |
B.background |
C.direction |
D.information |
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A.refused |
B.decided |
C.prepared |
D.forgot |
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A.hardly |
B.luckily |
C.usually |
D.clearly |
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A.danger |
B.excuse |
C.space |
D.energy |
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A.moment |
B.night |
C.afternoon |
D.morning |
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A.depended on |
B.looked forward to |
C.stayed away from |
D.came back to |
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A.though |
B.unless |
C.because |
D.until |
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A.what |
B.how |
C.why |
D.that |
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A.tired |
B.ready |
C.proud |
D.sorry |
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