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八年级英语阅读竞赛训练试题 5 完形填空 I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large 1 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would 2 his taxi on the road. I 3 why he did not park it in the garage. Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home 4 work, leave his taxi and go out for his 5 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was 6 . I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 7 to be outside one evening two weeks 8 , when the garage door was 9 and he drove out in his “ own” car: a Rolls-Royce （劳斯莱斯） ! It shook me completely 10 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 11 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a （n） 12 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 13 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n ） 14 . We go to bed every night and 15 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 16 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 17 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we 18 the social ladder— how much bigger and better a 19 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 20 we are than what we do! 1. A. window B. garage C. door D. yard 2. A. park B. stop C. check D. repair 3. A. knew B. understood C. asked D. wondered 4. A. for B. out of C. without D. from 5. A. business B. national C. personal D. public 6. A. wasteful B. useful C. wonderful D. plentiful 7. A. appeared B. intended C. expected D. happened 8. A. later B. more C. ago D. before 9. A. broken B. fine C. shut D. open 10. A. once B. before C. when D. until 11. A. far B. deep C. long D.