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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项。
I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ 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 ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce(劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a(n) ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n) ________ .
We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder(梯子)And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ we are than what we do!
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A.window |
B.garage |
C.door |
D.yard |
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A.park |
B.stop |
C.check |
D.repair |
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A.knew |
B.understood |
C.asked |
D.wondered |
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A.for |
B.out of |
C.without |
D.from |
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A.business |
B.national |
C.personal |
D.public |
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A.wasteful |
B.useful |
C.wonderful |
D.careful |
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A.appeared |
B.happened |
C.expected |
D.intended |
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A.broken |
B.closed |
C.shut |
D.open |
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A.once |
B.before |
C.when |
D.until |
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A.driver |
B.engineer |
C.father |
D.son |
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A.experience |
B.earning |
C.life |
D.position |
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A.stay up |
B.wake up |
C.take up |
D.warm up |
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A.family |
B.company |
C.team |
D.whole |
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A.build |
B.climb |
C.stand |
D.lay |
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A.who |
B.what |
C.which |
D.where |
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