Question

完形填空

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________  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 ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________  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. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n） ________  .

We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a   ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we   ________  the social ladder（梯子）And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on   ________ we are than what we do!

1.A. window      B. garage          C. door          D. yard

2.A. park        B. stop           C. check         D. repair

3.A. knew       B. understood     C. asked         D. wondered

4.A. for        B. out of         C. without       D. from

5.A. business   B. national       C. personal     D. public

6.A. wasteful    B. useful          C. wonderful     D. careful

7.A. appeared    B. happened       C. expected     D. intended

8.A. broken      B. closed         C. shut          D. open

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

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

11.A. experience B. earning        C. life         D. position

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

13.A. family     B. company         C. team         D. whole

14.A. build      B. climb          C. stand         D. lay

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

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.D

5.C

6.A

7.B

8.D

9.C

10.C

11.C

12.B

13.A

14.B

15.A

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述的是作者通过邻居的工作生活方式，意识到了我们在对待工作和家庭生活时候应当采取的态度

1.B考查名词辨析A. window窗户；B. garage 车库；C. door门；D. yard院子。根据后文的 he did not park it in the garage可知，他家里有一个大的车库，但是他还把车停在马路上，故选B项。

2.2】A考查动词辨析A. park停车；B. stop停止；C. check 检查；D. repair修理；根据后文的why he did not park it in the garage可知，他把车停在了路上，作者就在想为什么不停在车库里,故选A项。

3.3】D考查动词辨析A. knew知道；B. understood 明白；C. asked问；D. wondered想知道；他把车停在了路上，作者就在想为什么不停在车库里，故选D项。

4.4】D考查介词辨析及语境理解A. for 为了；B. out of出来；C. without 没有；D. from来自。根据In the afternoon可知，他是下班回来，故选D项。

5.5】C考查名词辨析A. business生意；B. national 国家的；C. personal个人的；D. public公共的；下班后就可以去处理他的私人事务了，即personal affairs，故选C项。

6.6】A考查形容词辨析A. wasteful浪费的；B. useful有用的；C. wonderful精彩的；D. careful小心的；作者看到他回家后，处理私人事务还换了一辆车开，认为这太浪费了，故选A项。

7.7】B考查动词辨析A. appeared出现；B. happened发生；C. expected期望；D. intended打算；我一直对他的私车很好奇，一直没有看到，直到两周后的一个晚上，我碰巧在外面 happen to do意为碰巧干某事，故选B项。

8.8】D考查动词辨析A. broken 打碎；B. closed关上；C. shut关上；D. open打开；根据后面的he drove out in his “own” car可知，车库门打开，他开车出来，故选D项。

9.9】C考查连词辨析A. once一旦；B. before之前；C. when当。。时候；D. until直到；当我意识到那意为着什么的时候，我彻底震惊了，故选C项。

10.0】C考查名词辨析A. driver司机；B. engineer 工程师；C. father父亲；D. son儿子；根据后面的but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce可知，他是一个孩子的父亲，故选C项。

11.1】C考查名词辨析A. experience 经历；B. earning收入；C. life生活；D. position位置；全世界看到他的出租车，会叫他出租车司机，但是对他来说，出租车是为了谋生，而劳斯莱斯是为了生活，故选C项。

12.2】B考查动词短语辨析A. stay up熬夜；B. wake up醒来；C. take up从事；D. warm up温暖；句意：每天晚上睡觉早上醒来，根据 语境可知选B项。

13.3】A考查名词辨析A. family家庭；B. company公司；C. team团队；D. whole整个；句意：我闪跟朋友去聚会或与家会度假，根据语境可知选A项。

14.4】B考查动词辨析A. build建设；B. climb爬；C. stand站；D. lay放置；句意：我们会把我们的幸福和成功归结于我们的社会关系有多高，根据语境可知选B项。

15.5】A考查宾语从句引导词，我们应当把中心放在我们是谁上面，而不是我们做什么工作，故选A项。

考点 ：人生百味类短文。