填空题 This is an amusing short story which illustrates how little people sometimes know about their mother tongue. The narrator is a woman, a p 1 in a taxi whose driver is a Pakistani man e 2 to learn English by asking his passengers about new words. Struggling to e 3 the meanings of a proverb and an idiom, she realizes how little she really knows about the v 4 of her native language and also w 5 what kind of answers other, probably equally i 6, native passengers might give. In the end she is left hoping that the driver has a d 7 and that he will use it to teach himself rather than depend on the native speakers for e 8.