完型填空。（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项.
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to 31 a passager at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to 32 the passager, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the 33 and knocked,“Just a minute,”answered a weak ,elderly voice. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman 34 her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.
I took the suitcase to the car,and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness.“It’s 35 ,”I told her,“I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother 36 .”
“Oh, you’re such a good man,”she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an 37 ,and then asked,“could you drive 38 downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,”I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,”she said,“I’m on my way to a hospice(临终医院).I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I 39 reached over and 40 the meter(计价器)
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the buildings, 41 the manufactory where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived , and the furniture shop 42 had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to solw down in front of a 43 building and would sit staring into the darkness, say nothing.
44 , she suddenly said,“I’m tired, Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
“ 45 do I owe you?”she asked.
“Nothing,”I said.
“You 46 make a living,”she answered. “Oh, there are other 47 .”I answered.
Almost without thinking. I 48 and gave her a hug. She 49 me. Our hug ended with her remark,“You gave an old woman a little moment of 50 .”
【小题1】A．call inB．show aroundC．pick upD．bring back【小题2】A．discoverB．collectC．sendD．offer【小题3】A．windowB．roomC．taxiD．door【小题4】A．inB．ofC．aboutD．on【小题5】A．nothingB．worthlessC．unimportantD．useless【小题6】A．treatedB．hadC．receivedD．manded【小题7】A．handB．hugC．addressD．map【小题8】A．forB．acrossC．fromD．through【小题9】A．quicklyB．calmlyC．nervouslyD．quietly【小题10】A．shut offB．take outC．put downD．break down【小题11】A．includingB．concerningC．containingD．regarding【小题12】A．whereB．whatC．thatD．there【小题13】A．beautifulB．normalC．unusualD．particular【小题14】A．At dawnB．At nightC．At noonD．At dusk【小题15】A．How manyB．WhyC．How muchD．Which【小题16】A．shouldB．mustC．have toD．would【小题17】A．peopleB．travellersC．customersD．passengers【小题18】A．bentB．roseC．stoodD．turned【小题19】A．cared aboutB．hold ontoC．gave in toD．kept away from【小题20】A．pityB．funC．joyD．freedomC【小题1】B【小题1】D【小题1】A【小题1】A
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(答案→)C【小题1】B【小题1】D【小题1】A【小题1】A
解析：
【小题1】C pick up有“（用车）接（人或物）”的意思，根据句意，作者是去接一个乘客。
【小题1】B 考查词义辨析。collect“接走”。
【小题1】D 根据“…and knocked”知，作者走到门前并敲门。
【小题1】A 考查固定搭配。in her eighties译为“80多岁”。in one’s +基数词的复数表示“某人……岁”。
【小题1】A 表示“不用谢”可以说“it’s nothing.”
【小题1】A “the way I would want my mother 36 .”是一个定语从句，先行词是the way，意思是“我按我想让别人对待我妈妈的方式来对待（这个乘客）”。
【小题1】C 根据句意，老人给乘客一个地址，并让作者从市中心走。
【小题1】D 根据句意可知，从内部“穿过”用through。
【小题1】D 作者悄悄地伸手关掉了计价器。用quietly。
【小题1】A shut off“关掉，切断”。
【小题1】A including 介词“包括”，因为前面提到“buildings”，下文具体介绍了一些建筑物。所以用A。
【小题1】C the furniture shop是先行词且指物，定语从句用that引导，且在定语从句中作主语。
【小题1】D particular“特别的，独特的”，强调独一无二。
【小题1】A 练习上下文可知，作者带老人转了一夜，故应该是黎明时分，即“At dawn”向那个地址出发。
【小题1】C 根据文意，老人是问“我欠你多少（车钱）？”，故用C。
【小题1】C 考查情态动词，只有C项有“不得不”的意思，表示客观原因。
【小题1】D 联系作者的工作可知，选D. passengers“乘客”。
【小题1】A bent“弯腰”，作者和老人拥抱时，弯腰表示礼貌。
【小题1】B hold onto“紧紧抓住”。
【小题1】C 根据文意，只有C项“欢乐”最合题意。