Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It 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. No 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 someone.
| 小题1: | | A．fast | B．slowly | C．carefully | D．hard |
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| 小题2: | | A．late | B．alone | C．worried | D．afraid |
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| 小题3: | | A．green | B．yellow | C．red | D．dark |
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| 小题5: | | A．return | B．change | C．start | D．continue |
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| 小题6: | | A．attention | B．background | C．direction | D．information |
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| 小题7: | | A．refused | B．decided | C．prepared | D．forgot |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardly | B．luckily | C．usually | D．clearly |
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| 小题9: | | A．danger | B．excuse | C．space | D．energy |
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| 小题10: | | A．moment | B．night | C．afternoon | D．morning |
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| 小题11: | | A．depended on | B．looked forward to | C．stayed away from | D．came back to |
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| 小题12: | | A．though | B．unless | C．because | D．until |
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| 小题15: | | A．tired | B．ready | C．proud | D．sorry |
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