Question

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I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. A taxi driver lived in a house with a large garage across the road. He’s single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would _______ his taxi on the road. “ Why he did not park it in the garage?” I asked myself.

Then, one day I _______that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home _______ work, leave his taxi and go out for his _______ car, not in his taxi. I felt it was _______.

I was curious to see his personal car but did not _______ it until I happened 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. The world looked at his taxi and called him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was _______something he drove for a life.

We go to bed every night and _______ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a _______ as close friends or go for a vacation as a family. We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and _______ on how high we climb the social ladder(梯子)—how much bigger and better a_______ we have. And we fail to notice Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should pay more attention to _______ we are than what we do!

1.A. park         B. drive          C. check          D. repair

2.A. learnt        B. understood     C. told          D. remember

3.A. for          B. at            C. without       D. from

4.A. another      B. other          C. third          D. first

5.A. useful        B. careful       C. wasteful      D. painful

6.A. get           B. make           C. buy           D. have

7.A. broken       B. closed        C. painted       D. open

8.A. once         B. before        C. when           D. until

9.A. father        B. son            C. driver         D. engineer

10.A. yet         B. never         C. just          D. still

11.A. stay up     B. wake up       C. take up        D. warm up

12.A. Competition B. Performance   C. test          D. party

13.A. success     B. plans          C. beauty        D. wishes

14.A. garden      B. garage         C. car            D. taxi

15.A. who          B. what           C. which         D. where

Answer

1.A

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.C

6.B

7.D

8.C

9.A

10.C

11.B

12.D

13.A

14.A

15.D

【解析】

试题分析：

1.根据句意可知，司机在路边是停车，故选park.

2.根据后文得知，我得知他还有另外一辆车在车库里，得知故选learn.

3.根据句意可知，那个司机下班回家，故选from.

4.根据句意可知，那个司机出去办私人业务是用他的另外一辆车，一共两辆车，特指，故选other.

5.根据上文可知，那个司机出去办私人业务不开出租车，而是用他的另外一辆车，所有作者感觉这样浪费。故选wasteful.

6.根据句意可知，我很好奇想看到他私人的车，但是没能做到，故选make.

7.根据句意可知，直到两周后的一个晚上，他的车库门是打开的时候，我看到了他开出来自己的私家车, 故选open.

8.根据句意可知，当我意识到这件事的时候，我震惊了，故选when.

9.根据后文可知，从更深程度上看，他是劳斯莱斯的车主也是他孩子们的父亲，故选father.

10.根据句意可知，出租车从某种程度上来说不仅仅是他用来谋生的，而劳斯莱斯则是引领生活的，不仅仅故选just.

11.根据句意可知，我们每天晚上上床睡觉，每天早上醒来，故选wake up.

12.根据句意可知，我们去参加亲密朋友的派对或是作为家人一起去旅行，故选party.

13.根据句意可知，很多时候，我们基于我们的幸福和成功来定义我们可以爬上社会梯子的高度。故选success.

14.根据上文可知，我们可以爬上社会梯子的高度也就是我们所拥有工作上面的成就，暗指taxi的大小，而忽略生活中的劳斯莱斯。故选taxi.

15.根据上文可知，我们应该更多关注我们是谁而不是我们做的什么。故选who.