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 We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears.  36 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 37  to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.

     For three years, no matter  38 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On   39   days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime  40   out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.  41   , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I  42   all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how  43  I expected to see her each morning. You might say I   44   her.

“Did she have an accident? Something  45 ?” I thought to myself about her  46  .  Now that she was gone, I felt I had  47  her. I began to realize that part of our  48   life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar 49 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who  50   walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are   51   markers in our lives. They add weight to our  52   of place and belonging.

Think about it.   53   , while walking to work, we mark where we are by  54  a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though  55  , person

36. A. Make	B. Take	C. Give	D. Have
37. A. happened	B. wanted	C. used	D. tried
38. A. what	B. how	C. which	D. when
39. A. sunny	B. rainy	C. cloudy	D. snowy
40. A. took	B. brought	C. carried	D. turned
41. A. Clearly	B. Particularly	C. Luckily	D. Especially
42. A. believed	B. expressed	C. remembered	D. wondered
43. A. long	B. often	C. soon	D. much
44. A. respected	B. missed	C. praised	D. admired
45. A. better	B. worse	C. more	D. less
46. A. disappearance	B. appearance	C. misfortune	D. fortune
47. A. forgotten	B. lost	C. known	D. hurt
48. A. happy	B. enjoyable	C. frequent	D. daily
49. A. friends	B. strangers	C. tourists	D. guests
50. A. regularly	B. actually	C. hardly	D. probably
51. A. common	B. pleasant	C. important	D. faithful
52. A. choice	B. knowledge	C. decision	D. sense
53. A. Because	B. If	C. Although	D. However
54. A. keeping	B. changing	C. passing	D. mentioning
55. A. unnamed	B. unforgettable	C. unbelievable	D. unreal

Answer 1

解析:

本篇作者通過個人的經歷，指出許多人都犯的一個通病：對我們常見到的人成事物熟視無睹，直到有一天這個人或事物突然不見了，我們才發覺我們失去了什么。從而呼吁人們多關注我們周圍的人。

36．B

37．C 解析：前句說了人常犯的毛病：對習慣了的東西視而不見，本句便拿一個過去上班途中常看到的婦女作例子。Take…for example（拿……作例子）是固定用法，故36空選B，提到的婦女是作者過去常見的，現在看不到了。篇章第一句及下文均有線索，用used to。

38．A 解析：what是代詞，作like的賓語。我們常用“what's the weather like?”來詢問天氣。

39．D 解析：本句后半部分說她穿著厚重的衣服，戴著毛線手套，天氣一定很冷，所以要填snowy／cold／winter才合理，晴朗、下雨及多云都不必如此穿著。

40．B 解析：本句屬擬人用法。這位女士夏天會穿著棉布連衣裙，戴上（遮陽）帽子及太陽鏡，就像夏天把這一切帶到外面似的，故填brought。

41．A 解析：上文得知，這位女士穿著整潔、守時、坐公共汽車，她應該是一個普遍的工作女性，這一點是很清楚的，顯而易見的。

42．C 解析：緊扣首句和下文。再也見不到這位女士了，才記起了這一切。天天見到她的時候，卻不曾真的留意。

43．D 解析：much作狀語，表程度，是I expected very much to see her…改成的感嘆結構，作realize的賓語，整句意思是：直到那時（我再也見不到那位女士時）我才意識到我多么想每天早上都見到她。其余選項都表時間和頻率，均不妥。

44．B 解析：上句作者說非常盼著見到那位女士，那么也就是想念她了。

45．B

46．A 解析：作者以前天天見到那位女士，卻從不真正留意。現在她再也沒有出現，作者便對此（她的消失）產生猜測，而這些猜測都應是足以讓那位女士不再出現的（壞）事。故45空填worse，46空填disappearance。

47．C 解析：now that表一種原因及一件事的后果。全句意為：她不見了（結果）我倒感覺著我認識她了，（天天見她時卻很陌生）

48．D

49．B

50．A 解析：本句較長，空也多，難度就增加了，那位女士對于作者來說是一個“熟悉的陌生人”所謂熟悉是因為常見，所謂陌生，是因為彼此不了解，從未交談過。這樣的人在生活中不少，所以由于這位女士的突然不見，作者悵然若失，才開始意識到日常生活包括了這樣一些個“熟悉的陌生人”，然后舉了一些例子，這些例子都是日常生活中常見的人，所以48填daily，49填stranger，50填regulahy（有規律地，經常地，因而對作者來說才是familiar。）

51．C

52．D 解析：上文提到的那些“熟悉的陌生人“增加了我們對某些地方及環境的感覺份量（沒有這樣的人，我們不會對這些地方及環境有這么深的感情和印象），故52空填D。既然這些人起到這樣的作用，那么他們也就重要了，所以51空填important。

53．B 

54．C

55．A 解析：結合上文，通讀最后一段，可知作者設問：走路上班時，我們會借助建筑物來標識（判斷）我們走到那里了，為什么我們不該借助那些常見的人來判斷一下我們走到那里了呢（還不只是走路吧）？答案不言而喻。55空較易：一個熟悉（常見）的但又不了解（包括姓名）的人，unnamed是“未命名或未被知道名字的”，54空填passing也合理，經過某個建筑，我們就知道走到什么地方了。53空填if，表條件，結合全句可知。