Twenty years ago I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 AM. When I­­­­­­­­­­­­   21  -，I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor    22 
I walked to the door and knocked “Just a minute” answered a weak elderly      23
After a long pause the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood    24    me by her side was a small suitcase. I took the suitcase to the car and then  25to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked   26 toward the car.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It’s nothing” I told her. “I just try to   27  my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.” “Oh you’re such a good man.” She said. When we got into the taxi she gave me an address and then asked“Could you drive   28 downtown”
“It’s not the shortest way” I answered quickly.
“Oh I’m   29 ” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice临终医院. I don’t have any   30  left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I quietly reached over and   31  the meter计价器.
For the next two hours we drove through the city. She   32  me the building where she had once worked the neighborhood where she had lived and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone  33  as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a   34 building and would sit staring into the darkness saying nothing.
At  35  she suddenly said” I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the   36 she had given me. “How much do I   37 you” she asked. “Nothing.” I said. “You have to make a living” she answered. “Oh there are other   38 ” I answered. Almost without thinking I   39  and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark“You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.”
I walked into the  40 morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

单词拼写（5分）

The sights of the city never fail to make a strong  i­­­­­­­­­­_______________ on foreign tourists.

She graduated from college just last year, so she was an  i_________________ teacher.

It is a great  h_______________ for a journalist to be sent to Beijing to cover the Olympic Games.

The scientist made great ___________________ (贡献) to the film industry.

Although I am quite busy this month, I don't want to miss my cousin’s wedding __________(典礼).

According to the spokesman, he is not ________________ (牵涉) in the event.

I want to be one of the _______________（志愿者）to work for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

In our school, all teachers and students have free  a_____________ to the library.

_______________(不幸)，we didn't succeed in preventing the river from being polluted by these factories.

His progress is far away from his parents’  s__________________, so he will go on working hard.

I told Sally how to get here, but perhaps I ­­­­_________ for her.

A．had to write it out         B．must have written it out

C．should have written it out  D．ought to write it out

---John, why are you so upset?
---I­­­      my cell phone all morning but it is nowhere to be found.

---John, why are you so upset?

---I­­­      my cell phone all morning but it is nowhere to be found.

A．am looking for                          B．have looked for

C．have been looking for                    D．had looked for