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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large ________ across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would________ his taxi on the road. I________ 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 ________ work, leave his taxi and go out for his ________ affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was ________ .

I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I ________ to be outside one evening two weeks later, when the garage door was ________ and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely ________ I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But deep inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） ________ . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. For him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n） ________ .

We go to bed every night and ________ every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a party as close friends or go for a vacation as a ________ . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we ________ the social ladder（梯子）And we never use our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on ________ 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. careful

7.A. appeared B. happened C. expected D. intended

8.A. broken B. closed C. shut D. open

9.A. once B. before C. when D. until

10.A. driver B. engineer C. father D. son

11.A. experience B. earning C. life D. position

12.A. stay up B. wake up C. take up D. warm up

13.A. family B. company C. team D. whole

14.A. build B. climb C. stand D. lay

15.A. who B. what C. which D. where

Answer 1