I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and relax. As I _36_ my car, I saw one of my _37_ standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _38_, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _39_ in January. I didn’t know where she lived, but I was _40_ I would be able to find my way back. We _41_ about our work as I drove and _42_ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _43_ looked familiar, but at first that didn’t _44_ me. But soon I _45_ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _46_. I was _47_ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _48_. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _49_ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _50_. Then I raised my head and saw a(n) _51_ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little _52_, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _53_ rolled his window down. I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I _54_ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _55_ my driveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on. Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart. 小题1: A．discovered B．approached C．parked D．searched 小题2: A．patients B．classmates C．students D．workmates 小题3: A．yet B．still C．but D．besides 小题4: A．night B．morning C．afternoon D．noon 小题5: A．afraid B．happy C．confident D．sorry 小题6: A．worried B．cared C．talked D．explored 小题7: A．before B．if C．as D．though 小题8: A．Everything B．Nothing C．Anything D．Something 小题9: A．attract B．delight C．bother D．enjoy 小题10: A．escaped B．existed C．imagined D．realized 小题11: A．quiet B．calm C．silent D．brave 小题12: A．across B．over C．within D．beyond 小题13: A．wheel B．engine C．watch D．seat 小题14: A．drove B．deserted C．washed D．stopped 小题15: A．helpless B．excited C．satisfied D．delighted 小题16: A．shadow B．truck C．lady D．animal 小题17: A．faster B．nervously C．closer D．back 小题18: A．unlikely B．slowly C．carefully D．equally 小题19: A．came B．mistook C．recognized D．missed 小题20: A．pulled into B．drove away C．ran across D．fount out