2014高考英语突破完形填空训练(27)及答案
完形填空
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It was early September, 2009.Maybe 1∶00 a.m..I had been downtown with some friends, and they were going off somewhere else.I was __1__ money, and had to be up early the next morning, so I __2__ for home.I made my way to Bathurst station, and took the 7 bus.I chose my __3__ seat on a bus.On the back row was another fellow.Other than us, the bus was __4__.
The bus left the __5__ shortly after I got on, and began the journey.I noticed the driver looked __6__ when I got on the bus, but didn’t think twice about it.__7__, the names of the streets we __8__, recited over the intercom(内部通话设备), weren’t as dull as I was used to.Every stop was cheerfully __9__.Every name was cheerfully sung.
I wondered aloud, “Did he just __10__ the name of that stop?” My fellow traveler replied, “Yeah.” “I’ve __11__ heard that before.” “Oh, it __12__ all the time.Not just this driver, all of them.The weather is warm and all the windows are open, so the drivers get all the fresh air they could want.It’d be __13__ for a bus driver not to sing the name of the stops.” With that, the bus stopped, and the nameless __14__ stepped off into the night.