完形填空。
We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become
used to suddenly disappears.
1 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I
2 to see-or look at-on my way
to work each morning.
For three years, no matter
3 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00
am. On
4 days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime
5 out neat, belted cotton
dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.
6 , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I
7
all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how
8 I expected to see her each morning.
You might say I
9 her.
"Did she have an accident? Something
10 ?" I thought to myself about her
11 . Now that she was gone, I
felt I had
12 her. I began to realize that part of our
13 life probably includes such chance meetings with
familiar
14 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who
15 walks her dog along the street every morning,
the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are
16 markers in our lives. They add weight to our
17 of place and belonging.
Think about it.
18 , while walking to work, we mark where we are by
19 a certain building, why should
we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though
20 , person?
( )1. A. Make ( )2. A. happened ( )3. A. what ( )4. A. sunny ( )5. A. took ( )6. A. Clearly ( )7. A. believed ( )8. A. long ( )9. A. respected ( )10. A. better ( )11. A. disappearance ( )12. A. forgotten ( )13. A. happy ( )14. A. friends ( )15. A. regularly ( )16. A. common ( )17. A. choice ( )18. A. Because ( )19. A. keeping ( )20. A. unnamed |
B. Take B. wanted B. how B. rainy B. brought B. Particularly B. expressed B. often B. missed B. worse B. appearance B. lost B. enjoyable B. strangers B. actually B. pleasant B. knowledge B. If B. changing B.unforgettable |
C. Give C. used C. which C. cloudy C. carried C. Luckily C. remembered C. soon C. praised C. more C. misfortune C. known C. frequent C. tourists C. hardly C. important C. decision C. Although C. passing C. unbelievable |
D. Have D. tried D. when D. snowy D. turned D. Especially D. wondered D. much D. admired D. less D. fortune D. hurt D. daily D. guests D. probably D. faithful D. sense D. However D. mentioning D. unreal |