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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

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Kate said “Hello” to Mr Patel as she entered. She picked up a wire basket and walked towards the back of the store 1_____ the rice was kept. The room was quite large and divided by three long aisles(过道), with rows of shelves full of 2_____. Besides her and Patel there were only two boys in the store. They were both wearing 3_____ overcoats. They looked rather 4_____ because the overcoats were too big for them. “5_____”, she heard one of them whisper to 6_____. She walked on to the next aisle and found the 7_____ she was looking for. Then she heard something else. It 8_____ like a box dropping on the floor. She looked through the small open space 9_____ goods on the shelf and saw one of the boys picking up a box. But 10_____ putting it in the basket, he dropped 11_____into the inside pocket of his overcoat. Kate looked back and 12_____ see Mr Patel at the door checking through a list. Then she looked through the 13______ in the shelf again. The boys still had their backs to her. They were putting something 14_____into their inside pockets and then one of them said, “Let’s get out of here.” They moved away from her.
When she got to the door the two boys were 15_____ her. She watched them 16_____ for the few lings in their 17_____. They had both 18_____ their overcoats. Mr Patel did not seem to know what they had done. He even 19_____ at them as they were about to 20_____. Now Kate decided to stop them.
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A．which B．that C．there D．where

A．books B．baskets C．goods D．magazines

A．dirty B．long C．grey D．tight

A．strange B．young C．nervous D．excited

A．Look up B．Listen to me C．Watch out D．Put it down

A．him B．her C．the boy D．the other

A．book B．rice C．bag D．magazine

A．looked B．heard C．showed D．sounded

A．between B．of C．around D．at

A．instead of B．before C．without D．as if

A．something B．it C．one D．that

A．would B．should C．might D．could

A．spot B．space C．goods D．books

A．important B．new C．else D．extra

A．looking at B．talking to C．in front of D．behind

A．paying B．looking C．asking D．reaching

A．hands B．pockets C．box D．basket

A．thrown out B．put on C．buttoned D．hidden

A．shouted B．smiled C．looked D．laughed

A．leave B．pay C．speak D．apologize

When dawn came, they realized that the boat was blocked in ice. The captain had 1_____ asleep but the rest of the crew hurriedly woke him. He took a small axe(斧), and 2_____great care, so as to 3_____ a hole in the ice on the deck（甲板）, he began to knock. From time to time a wave burst over the boat and swept over him but he kept working for ten minutes 4_____ the others looked on 5_____. By this time he was 6______ cold that he could no longer trust what he was doing.
Each member of the crew took it in 7_____ to cut the ice away as long as he could 8_____it.
First, they had to knock off enough ice to get down on their 9_____. Standing on that rolling deck meant 10_____, because a man who had fallen into the sea could not have been rescued.
Then the captain discovered that ice was forming inside the cabin(船舱). He called 11_____ one of the crew and together they managed to get the stove alight, hoping that it would 12 _____enough heat to warm the cabin above 13_____ point. Unless the ice in the bottom could be melted enough so that the 14_____ could be raised, they were in 15_____.
It took an hour’s 16_____ before the boat began to float better. But by this time they had succeeded in 17_____ most of the ice.
Throughout the afternoon, the coating of ice began to build up again 18_____ their work. In the face of this danger, Captain Slater 19______ the crew to clear the ice so that the boat would 20_____ until the next morning. Then they settled down to wait for anther day.
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Bob and Annie had not known each other long before they became eager to get married:Bob because he wanted Annie and she because she could at least lead a life away from her1_____. When Mrs.Thompson 2_____ that they marry and live with her until they could get a 3 _____ of their own, Annie hesitated. Her idea of 4_____ had been something which 5 _____her a husband and an orderly, well-furnished home all at once. 6_____ she soon saw the 7_____ of this arrangement. She would, first of all, 8_____ from her present life into a house which was quiet and well run, not 9_____ her own; and she would be able to go on walking so that she and Bob could 10____ up all the more quickly for their own house. She would also get Bob, a good enough husband for any working-class 11_____:good-natured and 12_____ to be bent her way whenever it was 13 _____for her ends.
Things went well until her mother-in-law’s 14_____, when Annie had to give up her 15_____ and was at home all day. Her father-in-law became just a 16_____ figure in the house and 17____Bob became used to him, Annie began to find the old man’s constant 18_____in the house a source of growing annoyance(烦恼).
“He gets on my nerves, Bob,” she said. “And he hardly says a word all day.”
“Well, I suppose he has a 19_____ to do as he likes,” Bob said mildly. “It’s his house not ours.” But to Annie, now looking after the house 20_____ it were her own, it was beginning to seem the other way about.
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A．city B．family C．room D．company

A．learned B．thought C．heard D．suggested

A．stay B．child C．house D．world

A．marriage B．life C．future D．expectation

A．give B．found C．brought D．searched

A．But B．So C．Instead D．Besides

A．difficulty B．advantage C．trouble D．result

A．leave B．make C．change D．escape

A．of B．on C．like D．for

A．earn B．save C．build D．set

A．home B．character C．custom D．girl

A．easy B．ready C．kind D．lovely

A．necessary B．right C．important D．helpful

A．illness B．arrival C．death D．appearance

A．job B．idea C．decision D．dream

A．active B．funny C．strange D．silent

A．until B．although C．before D．when

A．rest B．work C．presence D．cough

A．right B．way C．wish D．freedom

A．because B．if C．even though D．as if

I ran across an old photo of him the other day, thinking of some old things. He’s been dead for 25 years. His name was Rex.
1_____ was his favorite recreation(娱乐). He had so much 2_____ in the water as any person I have known. You didn’t have to throw a stick in the water to 3_____ him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you 4 _____ throw one in.
That 5 ____ me of that night, 6_____ he brought back a small box that he found somewhere--- how 7_____ nobody ever knew. Since it was Rex, it 8_____ easily have been half a race. The box wasn’t a god one. It was just a 9______ old piece that somebody 10______. Still it was something he wanted, probably 11_____ there was some difficulty in transportation（运输）. And that he thought could test his courage. We first knew about his achievement when, deep in the night, we 12 _____ him trying to get the box up onto the porch(门厅). It sounded 13_____ two or three people were trying to tear the house 14 _____. We came downstairs and turned on the 15_____ light. Rex was on the top step trying to pull the thing up, but it had 16_____somehow. And he was just holding his own(坚持着). I suppose he would have held his own 17_____ dawn if we hadn’t helped him. The next day we carried the box miles away and threw it out. If we had thrown it out in a 18____ place, he would have brought it home again, as a small token(象征)of his strength in such matters. 19____, he had been taught to carry heavy wooden objects about and he was 20_____ of his skill.
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