第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
20 years ago, I drove a cab for a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a ___36__ up at a building that was dark ___37___ a single light in a ground floor window. After a long pause, a small woman in her 80’s stood before me.
“Would you carry my bag out to the car?” she said. I took her small suitcase to the cab, and then returned to ___38____ the woman. She kept thanking me for my kindness. “ It’s nothing.” I told her. “I just try to treat my passengers the ___39___ I would want my mother treated.”
“Riverside Street, please. But could you drive through downtown?”
“ It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.
“Oh, I don’t mind,” She said.“ I’m in no ____40__. I am on my way to a hospice.” I looked in the back view mirror. Her eyes were full of ___41___. “ I don’t have any family __42___.” She continued. “The __43___ says I don’t have very long.” While we were driving through the city, she showed me the building where she had once worked. Sometimes she asked me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would ___44___into the darkness, saying ___45___. Not until the first ray of the sun ___46___up the sky did we get to the address she had given me.
“ How much do I ___47___you ?’ she asked.
“ Nothing,” I said. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She ___48____ onto me tightly, saying “ You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.” Then she walked into the hospice.
Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the ___49__ of a life. I don’t pick up any more passengers for the rest of the day. I drove ___50____, lost in thought. ___51___ I had refused to take the run? On a quick ___52___, I don’t think I have done anything more __53___ in my life. We are conditioned to think that our lives ___54___ on great moments. But great moments often catch us _55___ ----beautifully hidden in what others may consider a small one.
36．A．visit B．pick C．business D．appointment
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38．A．take B．bring C．accompany D．assist
39．A．attitude B．manner C．way D．means
40．A．trouble B．hurry C．time D．danger
41 A．puzzlement B．excitement C．eagerness D．sadness
42．A．gone B．stayed C．left D．remained
43．A．lawyer B．doctor C．neighbor D．relative
44．A．stare B．wander C．disappeared D．step
45．A．much B．nothing C．anything D．none
46．A came B．appeared C．showed D．lit
47．A．charge B．owe C．give D．cost
48．A．kept B．held C．caught D．seized
49．A．beginning B．symbol C．sign D．closing
50．A．aimlessly B．deliberately C．intentionally D．carefully
51．A．How come B．So what C．What if D．How about
52．A．review B．pause C．rest D．memory
53．A．troublesome B．important C．enthusiastic D．worthless
54．A．depend B．rely C．look D．center
55．A．sudden B．unaware C．conscious D．expected