Question

I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax.

As I _36_ my car, I saw one of my _37_ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _38_, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _39_ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _40_ I would be able to find my way back.

We _41_ about our work as I drove and _42_ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _43_ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _44_ me. But soon I _45_ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _46_.

I was _47_ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _48_. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _49_ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _50_. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _51_ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _52_, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _53_ rolled his window down.

I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _54_ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _55_ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.

Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.

1. A．discovered B．approached C．parked D．searched

2. A．patients B．classmates C．students D．workmates

3. A．yet B．still C．but D．besides

4. A．night B．morning C．afternoon D．noon

5. A．afraid B．happy C．confident D．sorry

6. A．worried B．cared C．talked D．explored

7. A．before B．if C．as D．though

8. A．Everything B．Nothing C．Anything D．Something

9. A．attract B．delight C．bother D．enjoy

10. A．escaped B．existed C．imagined D．realized

11. A．quiet B．calm C．silent D．brave

12. A．across B．over C．within D．beyond

13. A．wheel B．engine C．watch D．seat

14. A．drove B．deserted C．washed D．stopped

15. A．helpless B．excited C．satisfied D．delighted

16. A．shadow B．truck C．lady D．animal

17. A．faster B．nervously C．closer D．back

18. A．unlikely B．slowly C．carefully D．equally

19. A．came B．mistook C．recognized D．missed

20. A．pulled into B．drove away C．ran across D．fount out

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.D

4.A

5.C

6.C

7.A

8.B

9.C

10.D

11.B

12.D

13.C

14.D

15.A

16.A

17.C

18.B

19.C

20.A

【解析】略