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.【C1】______ , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I【C2】______ to see—or look at—on my way to work each morning. For three years, no matter【C3】______the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a. m. On【C4】______ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime【C5】______ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.【C6】______ , she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I【C7】______ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how【C8】______ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I【C9】______ her. "Did she have an accident? Something【C10】______ ?" I thought to myself about her【C11】______ . Now that she was gone, I felt I had【C12】______her. I began to realize that part of our【C13】______ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar【C14】______ : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who【C15】______ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are【C16】______ markers in our lives. They add weight to our【C17】______ of places and belongings. Think about it.【C18】______ , while walking to work, we mark where we are by【C19】______ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though【C20】______ , person?
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：take…for example是固定用法，“拿…做例子”。
单选题
【C2】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：used to do表示过去习惯性的动作，暗示现在已经不做了。
单选题
【C3】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析：What is the weather like?是询问天气的句式。
单选题
【C4】
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：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。