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Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a __
1__ of about eighty miles.It was late and I
was in a hurry.However, if anyone asked me how fast I was __
2__, I'd say I was not overspeeding.Several times I got __
3__ behind a slowmoving truck on a narrow road, and I was holding my fists tightly with
_
4__.
At one point along an open highway, I __
5__ a crossroad with a traffic light.I was alone on the road
by now, but as I __
6__ the light, it turned red and I braked to a stop.I looked left, right and behind me.
Nothing.Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to __
7__, the only
human being for at least a mile in any __
8__.
I started __
9__ why I refused to run the light.I was not afraid of being __
10_, because there was
obviously no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no __
11__ in going through it.
Much later that night, after I __
12_ a group of my friends in Lewisburg and climbed into bed near
midnight, the question of why I'd stopped for that light __
13__ me, I think I stopped because it's part of a
contract (合同) we all have with each other.It's not only the __
14__, but it's an arrangement we have, and we trust each other to __
15__ it: we don't go through red lights.Like most of us, I'm more likely to be
__
16_ from doing something bad by the social convention that
__17_ it than by any law against it.
It's amazing that we ever __
18__ each other to do the right thing, isn't it? And we do, too.Trust is our
__
19__ preference.
I was so __
20__ of myself for stopping for the red light that night.
( )1. A.flight ( )2. A.thinking ( )3. A.stopped ( )4. A.horror ( )5. A.ran off ( )6. A.passed ( )7. A.stop ( )8. A.way ( )9. A.wondering ( )10. A.abused ( )11. A.danger ( )12. A.met with ( )13. A.turned out to ( )14. A.virtue ( )15. A.honour ( )16. A.stopped ( )17. A.speaks of ( )18. A.suspect ( )19. A.only ( )20. A.sorry |
B. distance B. driving B. changed B.strength B. came to B. watched B. change B. side B. suspecting B. fined B. sign B. got over B. came back to B. suggestion B. solve B. protected B. stands by B. trust B. first B. doubtful |
C. road C. complaining C. stuck C. understanding C. passed by C. approached C. turn C. city C. struggling C. injured C. time C. got rid of C. referred to C. law C. break C. rejected C. takes in C. teach C. lucky C. sure |
D. length D. running D. lost D . impatience D. left behind D. found D. die D. direction D. regretting D. killed D. record D. called back D. occurred to D. order D. judge D. frightened D. disapproves of D. care D. living D. proud |