单选题
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.
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, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I
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to see—or look at—on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter
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the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On
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days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime
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out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.
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, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I
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all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how
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I expected to see her each morning. You might say I
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her.
"Did she have an accident? Something
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?" I thought to myself about her
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Now that she was gone, I felt I had
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her. I began to realize that part of our
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life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar
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: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who
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walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are
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markers in our lives. They add weight to our
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of places and belongings.
Think about it.
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, while walking to work, we mark where we are by
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a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though
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, person?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 固定搭配
take...for example是固定用法，“拿…做例子”。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 固定词组的用法
used to do表示过去习惯性的动作，暗示现在已经不做了。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 固定句式的用法
What is the weather like?是询问天气的句式。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 形容词辨析
由后半句wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves可知天气很冷。四个选项中，只有snowy“下雪”时才会很冷。故本题选D。