I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large    36    acr

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large    36    across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would    37    his taxi on the road. I    38    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 from    39   , leave his taxi and go out for his    40    affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was    41   .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I    42    to be outside one evening two weeks    43   , when the garage door was    44    and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce (劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely    45    I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But    46    inside, he saw himself as something else: A Rolls-Royce owner and a an   47   . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and    48    him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove or a an    49   .

We go to bed every night and wake up every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a    50    as close friends or go for a vacation as a    51   . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we    52   the social ladder―how much bigger and better a    53    we have. And we    54  our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on    55    we are than what we do!

 

36. A. window       

B. garage          

C. door            

D. yard

37. A. park         

B. stop             

C. check           

D. repair

38. A. knew         

B. understood      

C. asked          

D. wondered

39. A. park         

B. factory           

C. road          

D. work

40. A. business         

B. national      

C. personal        

D. public

41. A. wasteful      

B. meaningful     

C. wonderful        

D. plentiful

42. A. appeared      

B. intended        

C. expected       

D. happened

43. A. later         

B. more           

C. ago            

D. before

44. A. broken        

B. fine           

C. shut            

D. open

45. A. once         

B. before           

C. when          

D. until

46. A. far         

B. deep            

C. long           

D. little

47. A. driver        

B. engineer       

C. father          

D. son

48. A. called        

B. made           

C. elected         

D. turned

49. A. experience    

B. earning         

C. life            

D. position

50. A. competition   

B. performance     

C. debate         

D. party

51. A. family        

B. company        

C. team           

D. whole

52. A. build         

B. climb           

C. stand           

D. lay

53. A. house         

B. garage           

C. car             

D. taxi

54. A. reject  

B. boycott

C. ignore

D. value

55. A. who         

B. what           

C. which          

D. where

答案

36-40 BADDC     41-45 ADADC     46-50  BCACD   51-55 ABDCA

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