第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所

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第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C.D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

The English are often considered as unfriendly people who don't talk to strangers, but not London taxi drivers. I once asked a cabbie to describe his life to me and he didn't stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them: “Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. When we got to her house she found that she'd lost her key. So, I waited in the cab with the dog while she climbed up the window.” “I waited … and waited … After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb up the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought that I was trying to rob the house! Luckily, the woman came downstairs, she'd gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare(车资，车费).”

56.In the writer’s opinion, London taxi drivers are _____________.

A. unfriendly      B. talkative           C. helpful        D. strange enough

57. From the passage we guess that the writer ______.

A. is the driver of the taxi                                B. often travels by taxi

C. is a foreigner visiting London                        D. lives in London

58. What does the underlined word “cabbie” mean in this passage?

A. Conductor.        B. Stranger.           C. Taxi driver.               D. Porter.

59. The man was waiting outside the woman's house because ______.

A. he began to like the woman and her dog at the first sight

B. the woman had not paid him

C. he wanted to know what would happen when the police came

D. he was trying to go on talking with her