Twenty years ago I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 AM. When I
21 -，I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor
22 I walked to the door and knocked “Just a minute” answered a weak elderly
23After a long pause the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood
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me by her side was a small suitcase. I took the suitcase to the car and then
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to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked
26 toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It’s nothing” I told her. “I just try to
27 my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.” “Oh you’re such a good man.” She said. When we got into the taxi she gave me an address and then asked“Could you drive
28 downtown”
“It’s not the shortest way” I answered quickly.
“Oh I’m
29 ” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice临终医院. I don’t have any
30 left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I quietly reached over and
31 the meter计价器.
For the next two hours we drove through the city. She
32 me the building where she had once worked the neighborhood where she had lived and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone
33 as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a
34 building and would sit staring into the darkness saying nothing.
At
35 she suddenly said” I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the
36 she had given me. “How much do I
37 you” she asked. “Nothing.” I said. “You have to make a living” she answered. “Oh there are other
38 ” I answered. Almost without thinking I
39 and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark“You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.”
I walked into the
40 morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.
| 小题1: | | A．waited | B．stopped | C．arrived | D．wandered |
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| 小题2: | | A．window | B．house | C．door | D．glass |
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| 小题3: | | A．sound | B．whisper | C．sign | D．voice |
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| 小题4: | | A．beneath | B．before | C．behind | D．over |
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| 小题5: | | A．walked | B．left | C．returned | D．stepped |
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| 小题6: | | A．calmly | B．hurriedly | C．quietly | D．slowly |
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| 小题7: | | A．receive | B．collect | C．treat | D．drive |
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| 小题8: | | A．through | B．from | C．to | D．towards |
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| 小题9: | | A．out of work | B．in no hurry | C．on no purpose | D．out of danger |
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| 小题10: | | A．hope | B．money | C．time | D．family |
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| 小题11: | | A．turned on | B．shut off | C．switched over | D．covered up |
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| 小题12: | | A．showed | B．pointed | C．indicated | D．forgot |
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| 小题13: | | A．working | B．growing | C．playing | D．dancing |
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| 小题14: | | A．memorial | B．significant | C．particular | D．similar |
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| 小题15: | | A．dawn | B．sunset | C．noon | D．night |
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| 小题16: | | A．house | B．address | C．direction | D．destination |
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| 小题17: | | A．pay | B．owe | C．promise | D．save |
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| 小题18: | | A．cars | B．buildings | C．passengers | D．chances |
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| 小题19: | | A．nodded | B．landed | C．swung | D．bent |
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| 小题20: | | A．dim | B．colorful | C．bright | D．black |
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