Question

 (福建省厦门外国语学校2009届高三最后一次模拟)

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  39   work, 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（n）  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 for a（n）  49  .

We go to bed every night and   50  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  51  as close friends or go for a vacation as a  52  . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  53  the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  54  we have. And we ignore 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. for                     B. out of                     C. without                  D. from

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. stay up               B. wake up                 C. stay home               D. go home

51. A. competition         B. performance           C. debate                    D. party

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

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

54. A. house                 B. garage                    C. car                         D. taxi

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

Answer 1

答案  36.B   37.A  38.D  39.D  40.C  41.A  42.D  43.A  44.D  45.C  46.B  47.C  48.A  49.C  50.B  51.D  52.A  53.B  54.D  55.A