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I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. A taxi driver lived in a house with a large garage across the road. He’s single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would _______ his taxi on the road. “ Why he did not park it in the garage?” I asked myself.

Then, one day I _______that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home _______ work, leave his taxi and go out for his _______ car, not in his taxi. I felt it was _______.

I was curious to see his personal car but did not _______ it until I happened to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was _______ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce(劳斯莱斯)! It shook me completely_______ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a(n) ________. He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and called him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was _______something he drove for a life.

We go to bed every night and _______ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a _______ as close friends or go for a vacation as a family. We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and _______ on how high we climb the social ladder(梯子)—how much bigger and better a_______ we have. And we fail to notice Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should pay more attention to _______ we are than what we do!

1.A. park B. drive C. check D. repair

2.A. learnt B. understood C. told D. remember

3.A. for B. at C. without D. from

4.A. another B. other C. third D. first

5.A. useful B. careful C. wasteful D. painful

6.A. get B. make C. buy D. have

7.A. broken B. closed C. painted D. open

8.A. once B. before C. when D. until

9.A. father B. son C. driver D. engineer

10.A. yet B. never C. just D. still

11.A. stay up B. wake up C. take up D. warm up

12.A. Competition B. Performance C. test D. party

13.A. success B. plans C. beauty D. wishes

14.A. garden B. garage C. car D. taxi

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

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