Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg，distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I became increasingly impatient.
At one point along an open road, I came to a crossing with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I drove near the light, it turned red and I made a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of car lamps, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.
I started wondering why I refused to run the light I was not afraid of being caught, because there was clearly no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it.
Much later that night, the question of why I'd stopped for that light came back to me. I think I
stopped because it's part of a contract(契约)we all have with each other. It's not only the law, but it is an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don't go through red lights.
Trust is our first inclination(倾向).Doubting others does not seem to be natural to us. The whole construction of our society depends on mutual(相互)trust, not distrust. We do what we say we'll do; we show up when we say we'll show up; and we pay when we say we'll pay. We trust each other in these matters, and we're angry or disappointed with the person or organization that breaks the trust we have in them.
I was so proud of myself for stopping for the red light that night.
【小题1】Why did the author get impatient while driving?

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　　The office and small factory of Belton and Son, maker of Butifix furniture and especially of armchairs and tables, were at Number 7, in a street of old- fashioned houses standing behind the beautiful fence. The street was full of tragic, and dust flew into one’s eyes from the road. The doorstep of Number 7 was the only clean one in the street. I had imagined I was going to work in a large factory, where hundreds of workers were labouring under a big glass roof, but Belton and Son used only the ground floor of this old house. A number of small businesses-a tailor or two, a lamp maker, and agents (代理商) for leather goods and shop-fittings-worked in single rooms above. There were packing cases stored in the hall.

　　On the ground floor there was a small room, made by glass dividing-walls, where a typist sat. She was a large boned, round-shouldered girl of seventeen, with fine yellow hair, who was in a green woolen coat. This office smelled of gas, paint and tea. Next door was the room used by Mr. Thomas Behon and Mr. John Behon, and beyond was the large workroom, from which one could hear the noise hammering and machinery. Patterns of cloth and examples of plastic coverings were on a large desk where the two managers sat in their office. And there, I waited alone, listening to the typewriter. It was an old-fashioned (过时的) one, and it crashed up and down as the typist worked.

1．Where was the Butifix furniture factory?

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2．At Number 7, Behons had ________.

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A．a factory with a large glass roof

B．a factory with a lot of workers

C．the entire house

D．only part of the house

3．The room where the typist worked was ________.

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A．part of a larger one

B．a store room for packing cases

C．shared with her manager

D．a long way from Mr. Belton’s

4．What did the writer notice about the typist?

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A．She was a young girl with dark hair.

B．She was an old woman.

C．She was a well-dressed girl.

D．She was working on an old machine.

When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it．But just as I am about to do so, I find the article on the   36  side is as much interesting．It may be a discussion of the way to  37  in good health, or  38  about how to behave and conduct oneself in society．If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to  39   damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 40  the title．Therefore, the scissors would  41  before they start,  42   halfway done when I find out the  43   result．

Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your  44 ．You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be  45  up．

But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 46  ．Thus you are  47   in a difficult position and feel sad．How  48  that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life   49  greatly on your preference of one choice to the other．

In fact that is what  50  is like: we are often  51   with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting．It often occurs that your attention is drawn to one thing only  52   we get into another．The  53  may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided mind．I  54   remember a philosopher's remarks: "When one door shuts, another opens in life．" So a casual  55   may not be a bad one．