2025年八年级英语阅读竞赛训练试题VIP专享

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 1 0 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 1 1 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） 1 2 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 1 3 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） 1 4 . We go to bed every night and 1 5 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 1 6 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 1 7 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how high we 1 8 the social ladder—how much bigger and better a 1 9 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by keeping it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 2 0 we are than what we do! 1. A. window B. garage C. doorD. yard2. A. park B. stopC. checkD. repair3. A. knew B. understo...