Question

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（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 for a（an） 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

36--40 BADDC   41―45 ADADC   46―50 BCACB   51―55 DABDA