I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  21  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-age children. At the end of the day, he would  22  his taxi on the road. I  23  why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  24  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  25  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was  26 . 
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I  27  to be outside one evening two weeks  28  ,when the garage door was  29   and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（勞斯萊斯）! It shook me completely  30  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 31   inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）32  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and  33   him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a（n）34  . 
We go to bed every night and  35   every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  36   as close friends or go for a vacation as a  37 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we  38   the social ladder—how much bigger and better a  39 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  40  we are than what we do! 
小題1:
A．window B．garage C．door D．yard
小題2:
A．park B．stop C．check D．repair
小題3:
A．knew B．understood C．a(chǎn)sked D．wondered
小題4:
A．for B．out of C．without D．from
小題5:
A．business B．national C．personal D．public
小題6:
A．wasteful B．meaningful C．wonderful D．plentiful
小題7:
A．a(chǎn)ppeared B．intended C．expected D．happened
小題8:
A．later B．more C．a(chǎn)go D．before
小題9:
A．broken B．fine C．shut D．open
小題10:
A．once B．before C．when D．until
小題11:
A．far B．deep C．long D．little
小題12:
A．driver B．engineer C．father D．son
小題13:
A．called B．made C．elected D．turned
小題14:
A．experienceB．earning C．life D．position
小題15:
A．stay up B．wake up C．stay home D．go home
小題16:
A．competitionB．performance C．debate D．party
小題17:
A．family B．company C．team D．whole
小題18:
A．build B．climb C．stand D．lay
小題19:
A．house B．garage C．car D．taxi
小題20:
A．who B．what C．which D．Where

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C
小題5:C
小題6:A
小題7:D
小題8:A
小題9:D
小題10:C
小題11:B
小題12:C
小題13:A
小題14:C
小題15:B
小題16:D
小題17:A
小題18:B
小題19:D
小題20:A
文章講述的是作者通過鄰居的工作生活方式，意識到了我們在對待工作和家庭生活時候應當采取的態(tài)度。
小題1:上下文，根據(jù)后文的 he did not park it in the garage可知，他家里有一個大的車庫，但是他還把車停在馬路上。
小題2:上下文，根據(jù)后文的why he did not park it in the garage可知，他把車停在了路上，作者就在想為什么不停在車庫里。
小題3:同上，作者只是心里在納悶，并沒有真正去問他
小題4:根據(jù)In the afternoon可知，他是下班回來，out of work是失業(yè)
小題5:句意理解，下班后就可以去處理他的私人事務了，即personal affairs
小題6:句意理解，作者看到他回家后，處理私人事務還換了一輛車開，認為這太浪費了
小題7:句意理解，我一直對他的私車很好奇，一直沒有看到，直到兩周后的一個晚上，我碰巧在外面 happen to do意為碰巧干某事
小題8:同上
小題9:上下文，根據(jù)后面的he drove out in his “own” car可知，車庫門打開，他開車出來
小題10:句意理解，當我意識到那意為著什么的時候，我徹底震驚了
小題11:句意理解，但是在他的內(nèi)心深處，他把自己看作是另外一個。
小題12:上下文，根據(jù)后面的but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce可知，他是一個孩子的父親
小題13:句意理解，全世界看到他的出租車，會叫他出租車司機，但是對他來說，出租車是為了謀生，而勞斯萊斯是為了生活
小題14:同上
小題15:根據(jù)every morning可知，早上起床
小題16:根據(jù)as close friends 可知，跟朋友在一起是參加聚會
小題17:跟家人一起去度假
小題18:常用搭配，跟ladder搭配的是ladder，意為爬梯子，這里指的是社會關系的梯子
小題19:上下文，根據(jù)后面的And we ignore our Rolls-Royce可知，這里對應的是上面講到的鄰居的出租車和他的勞斯萊斯，所以此處講的是taxi'
小題20:句意理解，我們應當把中心放在我們是誰上面，而不是我們做什么工作。
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I was  40  about my first meeting with his children. My worries melted away when I realized that they  41  me and were more than willing to bring me into their family. And when his daughters  42  me if their children could call me “Mimi,” I was excited, Tom was divorced, and  43  I was also concerned about the  44  that the children already had two grandmothers. Would the little ones understand  45  I fit into the family？
At our first extended family gathering, I  46  our six-year-old grandson Jim staring at me with a  47  look. He seemed to be thinking about something serious.  48  sporting a big grin(咧嘴笑)，he jumped and said, “I know who you are! You are our  49  grandma!” At that moment, I know it was time to just relax and enjoy my new  50 .
People say when a door close, God opens a window. Now I know what that  51 . I lost so much joy when Sid died,  52  now I have a new happy life. I am enjoying so many things I  53  got to experience before like reading bedtime stories. My refrigerator is covered with drawings, and my walls are  54  with photos of the kids. I may be an instant “extra” grandma in Jim’s eyes, but I am just as  55  any other “regular” grandma I know.
小題1:
A．disappearedB．deepenedC．improvedD．worsened
小題2:
A．diedB．returnedC．recoveredD．divorced
小題3:
A．dreamedB．foundC．forgotD．regretted
小題4:
A．unwillinglyB．merelyC．naturallyD．surely
小題5:
A．excitedB．crazyC．curiousD．a(chǎn)nxious
小題6:
A．doubtedB．praisedC．likedD．changed
小題7:
A．challengedB．a(chǎn)skedC．promisedD．tested
小題8:
A．a(chǎn)s a resultB．in other wordsC．from then onD．in the end
小題9:
A．troubleB．behavior C．choiceD．fact
小題10:
A．whenB．whereC．whatD．why
小題11:
A．a(chǎn)llowedB．noticedC．ignoredD．hated
小題12:
A．frightenedB．sadC．happyD．confused
小題13:
A．GenerallyB．EventuallyC．GraduallyD．Suddenly
小題14:
A．newB．extraC．distantD．great
小題15:
A．causeB．partnerC．roleD．job
小題16:
A．containsB．determinesC．meansD．matters
小題17:
A．a(chǎn)ndB．butC．orD．so
小題18:
A．everB．stillC．onceD．never
小題19:
A．decoratedB．replacedC．coveredD．filled
小題20:
A．proudB．busyC．carefulD．healthy

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After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I was only a four-year-old girl at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom’s attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn’t walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldn’t go to summer camp because what if something happened to me?
As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into “things you should avoid”, and “things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life.” I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job — disasters big and small, real and imagined.
The funny part is that you’d never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I’ve developed a rule for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I’ve done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I’ve ridden a motorcycle; I’ve traveled —a lot. I’ve performed stand-up comedy, and I’m planning my second wedding.
There’s something else I don’t usually talk about, but it’s a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom’s funeral I remember making a choice. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be “safe” or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life.
I worry that I may have betrayed(背叛) my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn’t a natural character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do.
Even though I inherited (繼承) my mother’s cautious nature. I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we face it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place.
小題1:In the writer’s childhood, the limits and rules were used to ______.
A．improve her behaviorB．develop her independence
C．be in memory of her dead brotherD．protect her from possible danger
小題2: How does the writer deal with the things that frighten her?
A．She just ignores them.B．She faces up to them.
C．She turns to her mother for help.D．She does them with her friends.
小題3:From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A．the writer failed in her first marriage
B．nothing can make the writer afraid now
C．frightening things made the writer lose her self-confidence
D．the writer’s mother felt annoyed with her
小題4:What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Mothers influence their children much.
B．Fear is in fact not a bad thing.
C．Facing fear bravely produces courage.
D．The world is not as scary as people expect.

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