完形填空。
It is a thousand kilometers across that desert (沙漠). The road is   1   nearly all the way. Sometimes
there is a deep sand. A driver must then put his foot down hard and drive through! There are three small
   2   along the way. Vick reached the first place at ten o'clock p. m. He had his    3   in a little restaurant
(餐馆) there. It was a warm   4   in August. Vick wanted to    5   through the night. The nights are warm
enough in August, but the days are very, very    6   .
He left the restaurant at 11: 30 and drove over    7   hours. There wasn't a moon, but the   8   were
wonderful. There was nothing else on die road. Vick thought, "It's an empty desert. No tree, house, man.
"He could   9   . the endless, white road in the car's headlights (车灯). A million stars looked down on him.
It was two o'clock in the morning. Vick stopped the car. He was two hundred kilometers from the  10  
town: "I'll light the cooker (炊具)," he thought, "and make some tea. " He got out of the car.
He heard some sounds, ten or fifteen metres   11   . He could not see anything in the darkness (黑暗).
A man said, "Good morning. It's a  12   morning, isn't it?" The man came forward (向前), out of the
darkness; out of the desert. Vick did not move. The man said, "You are going to   13  some tea, aren't you?
I often get a cup of tea at this time. It" s two o'clock. Cars always  14  near here at this time. Sometimes I
get a  15  . Now listen, and I'll tell you a story. Then you'll give me..."
(     )1. A. short
(     )2. A. cities
(     )3. A. tea
(     )4. A. night
(     )5. A. live
(     )6. A. cold
(     )7. A. two
(     )8. A. trees
(     )9. A. see
(     )10. A. home
(     )11. A. about
(     )12. A. noisy
(     ) 13. A. eat
(     )14. A. leave
(     )15. A. bread

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