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 crossroad 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, I had to tell someone.
A.fast B.slowly C.carefully D.hard
A.late B.alone C.worried D.afraid
A.green B.yellow C.red D.dark
A.and B.or C.so D.but
A.return B.change C.start D.continue
A.attention B.background C.direction D.information
A.refused B.decided C.prepared D.forgot
A.hardly B.luckily C.usually D.clearly
A.danger B.excuse C.space D.energy
A.moment B.night C.afternoon D.morning
A.depended on B.looked forward to C.stayed away from D.came back to
A.though B.unless C.because D.until
A.me B.it C.him D.us
A.what B.how C.why D.that
A.tired B.ready C.proud D.sorry