题型：选词填空（语篇） 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
山东省威海市文登区八校(五四学制)2016-2017学年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷
A. show me the building, B. was rising , C. make a living, D. could hardly sleep E. took my taxi F. pay you |
Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One time in the middle of the night, an old lady in her 80s . She gave me an address, and then asked, “Could you ?”
“It's not the shortest way,” I answered quietly .
“Oh, I don't mind,” she said. “I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice(临终医院). I The doctor says I don't have very long.”
I quickly reached over and shut off the meter(计价器). For the next two hours, we drove through the city. Shewhere she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, the place where she danced as a girl. As sun , we got to the hospice.
“How much should I ?” she asked, reaching into her purse.
“Nothing ” I said.
“You have to ” she answered.
“Oh, there are other passengers,” I answered.
“You gave an old woman some moment of happiness”. She said: “Thank you.”
I drove into the fine morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of closing of a life. I drove aimlessly, lost in thought. For the rest of the day, I . What if that woman had got an unfriendly drive, or one who was impatient to his shift? What if I had refused to take the run?
cut, wait, with, other, polite, happy, stand, rule, happen, feel |
Nowadays, we are in a modern society. Everybody should be polite in public. But sometimes some people like to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in line when they buy tickets or get on the bus or subway. They take {#blank#}2{#/blank#}places as well as time when they are in line, so it is {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. I can't {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that. Sometimes, I even get mad when I see them cut in line.
When this {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, I often say, "Would you mind {#blank#}6{#/blank#}in line?" But sometimes some of them are angry {#blank#}7{#/blank#}me and they say, "It's none of your business." So I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}angrier. Then I only tell it to the people who sell the tickets. At last the people who are breaking the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}of etiquette(礼数) don't get their tickets. So I am happy and the people who cut in line are {#blank#}10{#/blank#}
I, with, meet, shop, look, move, store, job, same, tell |
My name is Anna King and I come from a small town called Madison in Wyoming in the center of the USA. When I was twenty, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to the east coast (东海岸), to a town just south of New York, and started a(n){#blank#}2{#/blank#} in a big store. One day, a young man with short brown hair came to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in the store. He looked at {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and asked, "Are you Michelle Golden?"
"No," I said. "But do you mean Michelle Golden from Madison?" He said yes. I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} him that I was at the same school with Michelle. She wasn't much older than me and people often said that we {#blank#}6{#/blank#}like each other. Then the young man told me that Michelle and he were in the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} history class at university (大学).
Six months later, I got a better job with another big {#blank#}8{#/blank#}and moved to the west (西部的) coast to work in San Francisco. One day on my way home from work, a young man {#blank#}9{#/blank#} short brown hair saw me in the street and asked, "Are you Michelle Golden?"
"No," I answered. "You asked me that when we {#blank#}10{#/blank#}in a store thousands of (数以千计的) kilometers away, near New York" Then both of us laughed.
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