完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large
1 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would
2 his taxi on the road. I
3 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
4 work, leave his taxi and go out for his
5 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was
6 . I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I
7 to be outside one evening two weeks
8 , when the garage door was
9 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely
10 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But
11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）
12 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and
13 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）
14 .
We go to bed every night and
15 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a
16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a
17 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we
18 the social ladder—how much bigger and better a
19 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on
20 we are than what we do!
| 小题1: | | A．window | B．garage | C．door | D．yard | |
| 小题2: | | A．park | B．stop | C．check | D．repair | |
| 小题3: | | A．knew | B．understood | C．asked | D．wondered | |
| 小题4: | | A．for | B．out of | C．without | D．from | |
| 小题5: | | A．business | B．national | C．personal | D．public | |
| 小题6: | | A．wasteful | B．useful | C．wonderful | D．plentiful | |
| 小题7: | | A．appeared | B．intended | C．expected | D．happened | |
| 小题8: | | A．later | B．more | C．ago | D．before | |
| 小题9: | | A．broken | B．fine | C．shut | D．open | |
| 小题10: | | A．once | B．before | C．when | D．until | |
| 小题11: | | A．far | B．deep | C．long | D．little | |
| 小题12: | | A．driver | B．engineer | C．father | D．son | |
| 小题13: | | A．called | B．made | C．elected | D．turned | |
| 小题14: | | A．experience | B．earning | C．life
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