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完形填空（共12分，每小题1分） My wife and I became the parents of two lovely girls. I had a good job in San Jose and a beautiful home in San Carlos. Life was a pleasant dream. Then the dream ended and became one of those horrible nightmares that cause you to wake in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. I began to ___ 36___ a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves, affecting first my right arm and leg, and then my other side. You can imagine how I feel. But… It was raining when I started home that night, beating down hard on the car as I drove slowly down one of the less-traveled roads. Suddenly the steering wheel jumped in my hands as one of the tires burst with a bang. I __37__ the car to a stop and sat there as the terrible nature of the situation swept over me. It was impossible for me to change that tire! Utterly impossible! A thought that a passing motorist might stop was ___38___ at once. Why should anyone? I knew I wouldn’t! Then I remembered that a short distance up a little side road was a house. I started the engine and drove slowly along until I came to the house. Lighted windows welcomed me as I ___39___ the driveway and honked the horn.(按响喇叭) The door opened and a little girl stood there, peering (盯着) at me. I rolled down the window and called out that I had a flat tire and needed someone to change it for me because I had a crutch and couldn’t do it myself. She went into the house and a moment later came out bundled in raincoat and hat, followed by a man who called a cheerful greeting. I sat there comfortable and dry, and felt a bit ___40___ for the man and the little girl working so hard in the storm. Well, I would pay them for it. The rain seemed to be ___41___a bit now, and I rolled down the window to watch. It seemed to me that they were awfully slow and I was beginning to become impatient. I heard the little girls voice from the back of the car. “Here’s the jack-handle, Grandpa.” She was answered by the murmur of the man’s lower voice and the