完形填空(共20小题,每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large
1 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would
2 his taxi on the road. I
3 why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home
4 work, leave his taxi and go out for his
5 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was
6 .I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I
7 to be outside one evening two weeks
8 , when the garage door was
9 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce(劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely
10 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But
11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a(n)
12 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and
13 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n)
14.
We go to bed every night and
15 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a
16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a
17 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we
18 the social ladder—how much bigger and better a
19 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on
20 we are than what we do!
小题1: | A.window | B.garage | C.door | D.yard |
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小题2: | A.park | B.stop | C.check | D.repair |
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小题3: | A.knew | B.understood | C.asked | D.wondered |
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小题4: | A.for | B.out of | C.without | D.from |
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小题5: | A.business | B.national | C.personal | D.public |
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小题6: | A.wasteful | B.useful | C.wonderful | D.plentiful |
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小题7: | A.appeared | B.intended | C.expected | D.happened |
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小题8: | A.later | B.more | C.ago | D.before |
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小题9: | A.broken | B.fine | C.shut | D.open |
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小题10: | A.once | B.before | C.when | D.until |
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小题11: | A.far | B.deep | C.long | D.little |
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小题12: | A.driver | B.engineer | C.father | D.son |
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小题13: | A.called | B.made | C.elected | D.turned |
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小题14: | A.experience | B.earning | C.life | D.position |
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小题15: | A.stay up | B.wake up | C.stay home | D.go home |
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小题16: | A.competition | B.performance | C.debate | D.party |
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小题17: | A.family | B.company | C.team | D.whole |
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小题18: | A.build | B.climb | C.stand | D.lay |
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小题19: | A.garden | B.garage | C.car | D.taxi |
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小题20: | A.who | B.what | C.which | D.where |
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