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20 years ago, I drove a cab
1 a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pickup at a
building that was dark
2 a single light in a ground floor window. After a long pause, a small woman in her 80's stood before me.
"Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said. I took her small suitcase to the cab, and then
returned to
3 the woman. She kept thanking me for my kindness. " It's nothing." I told her. "I just try to
treat my passengers the
4 I would want my mother treated."
"Riverside Street, please. But could you drive through downtown?"
"It's not the shortest way," I answered quickly.
"Oh, I don't mind," She said." I'm in no
5 . I am on my way to a hospice." I looked in the back view
mirror. Her eyes were full of
6 . "I don't have any family
7 ." She continued. "The
8 says I don't have
very long." While we were driving through the city, she showed me the building where she had once
worked. Sometimes she asked me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would
9 into
the darkness, saying
10 . Not until the first ray of the sun
11 up the sky did we get to the address she
had given me.
" How much do I
12 you?" she asked.
" Nothing," I said. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She
13 onto me tightly, saying "You gave an old woman a little moment of joy." Then she walked into the hospice.
Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the
14 of a life. I don't pick up any more passengers for
the rest of the day. I drove
15 , lost in thought.
16 I had refused to take the run? On a quick
17 , I
don't think I have done anything more
18 in my life. We are conditioned to think that our lives
19 on
great moments. But great moments often catch us
20 ----beautifully hidden in what others may consider
a small one.
( )1. A. at
( )2. A. except for
( )3. A. take
( )4. A. attitude
( )5. A. trouble
( )6. A. puzzlement
( )7. A. gone
( )8. A. lawyer
( )9. A. stare
( )10. A. much
( )11. A came
( )12. A. charge
( )13. A. kept
( )14. A. beginning
( )15. A. aimlessly
( )16. A. How come
( )17. A. review
( )18. A. troublesome
( )19. A. depend
( )20. A. sudden |
B. for
B. but for
B. bring
B. manner
B. hurry
B. excitement
B. stayed
B. doctor
B. wander
B. nothing
B. appeared
B. owe
B. held
B. symbol
B. deliberately
B. So what
B. pause
B. important
B. rely
B. unaware |
C. of
C. far from
C. accompany
C. way
C. time
C. eagerness
C. left
C. neighbor
C. disappeared
C. anything
C. showed
C. give
C. caught
C. sign
C. intentionally
C. What if
C. rest
C. enthusiastic
C. look
C. conscious |
D. in
D. instead of
D. assist
D. means
D. danger
D. sadness
D. remained
D. relative
D. step
D. none
D. lit
D. cost
D. seized
D. closing
D. carefully
D. How about
D. memory
D. worthless
D. center
D. expected |