15.
D。发生冲突后应产生打闹的噪音，故选D 最恰当。
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It is a thousand
kilometers across that desert (沙漠).
The road is 1
nearly all the way.
Sometimes there is a deep sand. A driver must then put his foot down hard and
drive through! There are three small 2 along the way. Vick reached the first
place at ten o'clock p. m.
He had his 3 in a little restaurant (餐馆) there. It was a warm 4 in August. Vick wanted to 5 through the night. The nights are warm
enough in August, but the days are very, very 6 .
He left the
restaurant at 11: 30 and
drove over 7 hours. There wasn't a moon, but the 8 were wonderful. There was nothing else on
die road. Vick thought, "It's an empty desert. No tree, house, man. "
He could 9 the endless, white road in the car's
headlights(车灯). A million stars looked down on
him.
It was two o'clock in the morning. Vick
stopped the car. He was two hundred kilometers from the 10 town: "I'll light the cooker( 炊具)," he thought, "and make some tea.
" He got out of the car.
He heard some sounds,
ten or fifteen meters 11 . He could not see anything in the
darkness(黑暗). A man said, "Good morning.
It's a 12 morning, isn't it?" The man came
forward (向前),out of the darkness; out of the
desert. Vick did not move. The man said, "You are going to 13 some tea, aren't you? I often get a cup
of tea at this time. It’s two o’clock.
Cars always 14 near here at this time. Sometimes I get a
15 . Now listen, and I'll tell you a
story. Then you'll give me…"
