Demon老师首字母秘诀分享【六】：综合训练（一）
【2013年虹口区二模】
When I came out of my office, it was dark. In order to get home as soon as possible, I took a taxi. The car was flying along the road, but later it was in a traffic jam in darkness. I b_____1_____the silence for fear that the driver might be too tired to drive. “When do you go back home in the evenings?”
“Nine o’clock. I’ll go home after this t_____2_____.”
“Then when do you come out in the mornings?” I threw out another question.
“Nine o’clock, too. And I go home for lunch and dinner, just as if I worked at an office.” His words s_____3_____me, because every time I ride in a taxi, what I hear from the driver is only complaints. They complain that they have to work from morning till night, that it is hard to earn money, that they are bullied by the police, or that the leaders enjoy the fruits of their work. It s_____4_____they are not satisfied with everything. But this driver told me, “I find it tiring to be a section chief as I was before. I don’t like management work. I like driving, just out of pleasure. It’s lucky that I s_____5_____drive without a passenger. So I can earn three or four thousand yuan a month easily. Any trick? Yes, I never follow an e_____6_____taxi. If it goes southward, I go northward. If it goes along the highway, I turn into a narrow street. In this way I always get customers.”
His words showed his satisfaction with his life and the pride he took in his job. Such feelings are so rare among people nowadays just as oxygen in high mountains. How many people nowadays can show high ideals by s_____7_____living and go with a calm mind? I couldn’t help feeling moved when I found such a state of mind in a stranger on a cold winter night.
