The sun was shining when I got on No. 151 bus. We passengers sat jammed in heavy clothes. No one spoke. That’s one of the
36 rules. Although we see the same faces every day, we prefer to
37 behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using those thin sheets of newsprint to keep their
38.
As the bus came near the Mile, a
39 suddenly rang out, “
40! This is your driver speaking.” We
41 the back of the driver’s head. “Put your papers down. All of you.” The
42 came down. “Now, turn and face the person next to you. Go
43.”
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an older woman, her head wrapped in a red scarf. I saw her
44 every day. Our eyes met. We waited for the next
45 from the driver. “Now repeat after me. Good morning, neighbor!”
Our voices were
46. For many of us, these were the
47 words we had spoken that day. But we said them together, like
48, to the strangers beside us. We couldn’t help
49. There was the feeling of relief(解脱) that we were not being robbed. Moreover, there was the sense of ice being
50. “Good morning, neighbor.” It was not so
51 after all. Some of us repeated it, others shook hands, and many laughed.
The bus driver said nothing more. He didn’t
52 to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard laughter, a warm sound I had
53 heard before in bus No. 151.
When I
54 my stop, I said goodbye to my seatmate, and then jumped off the bus. That day I was
55 off happily.
| 小题1: | | A．unwritten | B．strict | C．legal | D．important |
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| 小题3: | | A．ways | B．methods | C．respect | D．distance |
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| 小题4: | | A．message | B．warning | C．suggestion | D．voice |
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| 小题5: | | A．Attention | B．Mind | C．Help | D．Listen |
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| 小题6: | | A．found out | B．knocked at | C．cared about | D．looked at |
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| 小题7: | | A．papers | B．passengers | C．neighbors | D．tears |
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| 小题9: | | A．still | B．nearly | C．even | D．hardly |
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| 小题10: | | A．turn | B．talk | C．order | D．remark |
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| 小题12: | | A．first | B．last | C．best | D．only |
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| 小题13: | | A．teachers | B．citizens | C．patients | D．schoolchildren |
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| 小题14: | | A．shouting | B．crying | C．smiling | D．wondering |
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| 小题15: | | A．formed | B．heated | C．broken | D．frozen |
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| 小题16: | | A．sad | B．hard | C．ordinary | D．shy |
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| 小题17: | | A．need | B．want | C．like | D．begin |
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| 小题18: | | A．often | B．never | C．ever | D．always |
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| 小题19: | | A．stopped | B．reached | C．came | D．found |
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| 小题20: | | A．starting | B．seeing | C．taking | D．turning |
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