江苏省泰兴市第三高级中学高三英语一轮复习 限时训练6.docVIP

限时训练 第一部分 完形填空 Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about eighty miles. It was late and I was in a hurry. However, if anyone asked me how fast I was 1 , I’d say I was not over-speeding. Several times I got 2 behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road, and I was holding my fists tightly with 3 . At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroad with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I 4 the light, it turned red and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no 5 of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to 6 , the only human being for at least a mile in any direction. I started wondering why I 7 to run the light. I was not afraid of being 8 , because there was obviously no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no 9 in going through it. Much later that night, after I met with a group of my friends in Lewisburg and climbed into bed near midnight, the question of 10 I’d stopped for that light came back to 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 11 , but it’s an arrangement we have, and we trust each other to 12 it: we don’t go through red lights. Like most of us, I’m more likely to be 13 from doing something bad by the social custom that disagrees with it than by any law 14 it. It’s amazing that we ever 15 each other to do the right thing, isn’t it? And we do, too. Trust is our first 16 . We have to make a deliberate effort to mistrust someone. The whole thing we have going for us would 17 apart if we didn’t trust each other most of the time. It happens often that we don’t act in a 18 manner, but we all consider it unusual, and we’re angry or 19 with the person or organization that violates(侵犯) the trust we have in them. I was so 20 of myself for stopping for the red light that night. 1. A. thinking B. driv