阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I 1 a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 a.m. and I found the building was dark except for the only light in a first floor window.

    Many drivers would just shout once or twice and then drove away, but I thought this 2 might need my help. So I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a 3, elderly voice. After a long time, the door opened. A small old man showed up before me, 4a small bag. He kept thanking me for my 5. “It's nothing,” I told him.

     “Oh, you're such a good man.” He said. When we got into the taxi, he gave me a (an) 6, and then asked, “Could you drive through the city center?”

     “But it wasn't the 7way.” I answered quickly. “Oh, I'm in no hurry.” He said. “I'm on my way to a hospital. I don't have any family left. The 8 says I don't have much time left.

    I 9 started the taxi and shut off the meter(计程器). For the next two hours, we drove through the city center. He showed me the building where he once worked. We drove 10 the church where he got married. He would never forget that happy moment. Sometimes he'd ask me to slow down in front of a building and would sit 11the darkness for a long time, saying nothing. When the sun began to rise, we drove in silence to the address he had given me. When we arrived,12 without thinking, I gave him a big hug. “You gave an old man a little moment of 13. Thank you!” He said with tears in his eyes.

    I was completely lost in thought for the rest of the day. What would happen if I had refused to do14 I did? We always think that there are no 15 moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may think small and unimportant ones!

    Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered and never gave way to 1.

    One day the father decided to ask some friends to dinner in his house. He 2his son to buy some meat in town. When the son got what his father wanted, he turned 3 and walked towards the town gate. Just then a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn't 4enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But 5of them would give way to the other. They 6straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. "What shall I do? My son hasn't 7yet. I can't wait any longer." He wanted to know what was the 8with his son. So he left his friends at home, and he himself went to town to look for his son.

    "You may first take the 9 home for my friends. Let me stand here against him10." He said to his son when he knew what had happened.

Few families in the United States do not have either a radio or a television set. Both of them have become a necessary part of our daily lives, keeping us filled with the news of the day, teaching us in many fields of interest, and making us happy with songs, dances and other performances.

Marconi, the Italian inventor, gave us the radio. He probably didn't know how much his great invention would have done for the world in the years to come. Radio had perhaps done as much as any other communication tool. Things of the world can be reported to people everywhere a few seconds after they happened. Travellers in out-of-the-way places, ships at sea, even astronauts around the earth are able to keep in touch with each other by radio.

Television is another important invention. It lets us see as well as hear the actor. Since its

appearance, TV has done a great deal in the daily lives of people everywhere. Many programmes are now televised in colour.

Perhaps the most modern invention is the "Telstar", a"star"moving around the earth. It makes it possible for the people all over the world to be closer than ever before. Now a family in Chicago can watch a motor car race in Italy on TV, a table tennis competition in Beijing or a volleyball match in Japan as these events are actually happening!

Henry is a tall and strong man. But he used to be very thin when he was in middle school. Because of this, he 1 by some schoolboys. They made fun of him. His parents were worried 2 him. So he decided to do something 3 this situation in college.

Henry joined a sports club in his college. He stayed in 4 sports club from 6:00p. m. to 8:00  p. m. every day. He lifted light weights (哑铃) at first and then moved on to heavier ones. Every three weeks, he increased the weight he lifted by five 5 . He swam, ran or played basketball every morning. 6 he took exercise, he always drank some milk. It helped him get a lot of energy.

Henry also changed his eating habits. He 7 eating foods such as beef, chicken, eggs and brown rice. Eating these foods made him become healthy and worked 8 .

One year later, Henry wasn't thin any longer. He was strong and 9 laughed at him in college. He felt much 10 than he used to be.

Henry's change encouraged him a lot. He created a program teaching middle school students how to get stronger. He also joined talk shows and wrote books about his experience.

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