摘要：[答案]D. lay down.[详解]lay down制定.参阅Ⅲ.97注释.
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| I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large 1 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would 2 his taxi on the road. I 3 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 4 work, leave his taxi and go out for his 5 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 6 . I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 7 to be outside one evening two weeks 8 , when the garage door was 9 and he drove out in his "own" car: a Rolls-Royce (劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely 10 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a(n) 12 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 13 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) 14 . We go to bed every night and 15 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 17 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we 18 the social ladder (阶梯)-how much bigger and better a 19 we have. And we ignore(忽视)our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 20 we are than what we do! | ||||
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| It was black in the evening. Jason, a 12-year-old boy didn't want to go outside. But his mother, Branda, was worried about his father and 1 he go. That evening the man had to 2 his car, a Buick outside their house in the driveway. 3 enough, the wife hadn't heard a single 4 for at least one hour. "Go and find him," she told Jason. The kid stepped outside in the darkness and called into the shadows "Dad?" "Jason?" 5 was his father, but his voice sounded 6 . He spoke slowly, in a strange way. That evening, when the man had to get 7 the car to fix it, he used a forklift to lift the car. 8 , the man didn't place the blocks in front of the car' s front tires to keep it from 9 forward off the forks, which was exactly 10 it did afterwards. Little Jason saw his dad's feet 11 out from beneath the car. 12 to take a full breath, Old Jason sank into a sleepy, half-alive 13 . "Calm down. It will be OK." The boy 14 his mother. Now he couldn't afford to be scared. He climbed on and started up, the Buick started to come off the ground and 15 in the air. Minutes later, 911 policemen arrived. Old Jason 16 beneath the car, still breathing. It wasn't 17 his dad was loaded into an ambulance that the little boy 18 and sobbed. Little Jason says one happy change has come out of the 19 : he gets to spend more time with his dad. Old Jason, who hasn't touched a car 20 the Buick fell on him often spends evenings with his son playing. | ||||
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| My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to the 1 shelter to pick out a dog to keep her 2 . Grandma decided on a little dog with a reddish-brown spot above each eye 3 these spots, the dog was named Penny. Grandma and Penny quickly became very 4 to each other, but that attachment grew much stronger about three years later 5 Grandma had a stroke (中风). Grandma could no longer 6 , so when she came home from the hospital, she and Penny were 7 companions. After her stroke, it became a real 8 for Grandma to let Penny in and out because 9 was at the bottom of a flight of stairs. So a mechanism (机械装置) using a rope and pulley (滑轮) was 10 from the door to a handle at the top of the stairs. Grandma just had to pull the handle to open arid close the door. If the store was 11 Penny's favorite dog food, Grandma would make one of us 12 Penny browned beef with potatoes in it. I can remember 13 my grandmother by saying that she loved that dog better than she loved her family. As the years passed, it was not 14 for Grandma and Penny to separate each other. If Grandma went to take her nap (打盹), Penny stayed by her side until she 15 . As Penny aged, she could no longer jump up on the bed, so she 16 on the rug (垫子) beside the bed. If Grandma went into the 17 , Penny would walk along beside her, wait outside the door and accompany her 18 to the bed or chair. Grandma never went anywhere without her 19 companion by her side. The time came when both my grandmother's and Penny's 20 were failing fast. After fifteen years of loving companionship, Grandma and Penny passed away within a few hours of each other. | ||||
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| I tend to accept any idea put forward by experts on TV. One day, a sociologist proposed that the 1 society has been consuming modern humans little by little. For fear that I would become a victim of the consumer society, I 3 hurried to a bicycle shop in my neighborhood. 3 the shopkeeper Mr. Johnson was selling me the bicycle, he said, "This is the best thing you 4 have done. Life has become hopelessly 5 . A bicycle is simple, and it brings to you 6 things: fresh air, sunshine and exercise." I agreed. Happy as a child, I got on the bicycle and headed out onto the streets. After some time, I 7 at the other end of the town. I was 8 that this simple vehicle could let me 9 long distances in a fairly short time. But how 10 did I really go? Since I hated to be 11 , I went back to Mr. Johnson and asked him to 12 an odometer (里程表) on my bicycle. He agreed, but 13 , "An odometer without a speedometer (速度计) is like a 14 without a knife." I admitted he was right and in a few minutes, the two devices (装置) were 15 to the handlebars of my bicycle. "What about a horn?" he then asked. "Look, this horn is no larger than a matchbox and has many 16 ." Attracted by these functions, I bought the horn. "You can't leave the back part 17 ," noted Mr. Johnson. He fixed a metal box with buttons 18 the seat, and said, "Is there anything better than this oven when you feel 19 on your way? I can give you a special discount." I was not strong enough to 20 the offer. "I congratulate you once more; this is the best thing you could have done," said Mr. Johnson in the end. | ||||
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| Chen Guanming has been carrying his home with him for the past seven years. He has done everything a man would to make it cozy. The 53-year-old farmer has spent the hottest summers and severest winters cooking, eating and 1 in his mobile home: a shaky tricycle. Chen began his journey on the three-wheel rickshaw from his 2 Jiangsu province in 2001 after hearing the news that Beijing had won the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Of course, he did not forget to take his ID card, important 3 and some clothes before setting off on his mission (使命). Mission? What mission?"To promote awareness on health and the environment, just like what the Games has been doing," he says. It may 4 funny, but make no mistake that Chen is dead 5 about it. "I'm a poor farmer I can't do much. But I have a healthy body. I want to use it to show the 6 of the Chinese people and the spirit of the Olympics." He would have 7 all of China except Taiwan when he reaches Beijing tonight. He speaks lively about his experiences in all the places on the mainland, 8 about an incident in Chongqing in August 2003. "I was riding up a slope and my brakes failed my rickshaw and began sliding down and overturned," he says. He had his legs broken but did not go to a hospital. Instead, he used herbs to stop the bleeding. And he 9 quietly for some days for his legs to rejoin. Looking at the man, you wouldn't want to believe he has crossed so many mountains and 10 in his tricycle. But you look at the piles of evidence and become a silent admirer of this determined soul. | ||||
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