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. __1 _, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I __2 _ to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter __3 _ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On __4 _ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime __5 _ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. __6 _, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I __7__ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how __8__ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I __9__ her.

"Did she have an accident? Something __10 ?" I thought to myself about her _11 _.  Now that she was gone, I felt I had __12   her. I began to realize that part of our _13 _ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar _14 _: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who _15 _ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are _16 _ markers in our lives. They add weight to our _17   of place and belonging.

Think about it. _18 _ while walking to work, we mark where we are by _19__ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though _20 _ person?

答案

1-5: BCADB

6-10: ACDBB

11-15: A CDBA

16-20: CDBCA

考点名称：故事类阅读

故事类阅读是初中英语经常遇到的考试题型，这类题目规律性很强，同学们只要多练习就可以很快掌握故事类英语阅读题目。

故事，可以解释为旧事、旧业、先例、典故、花样等涵义，同时，也是文学体裁的一种，侧重于事情过程的描述，强调情节跌宕起伏，从而阐发道理或者价值观。

故事类阅读理解选材来源于日常生活，给人以似曾相识的感觉。体裁一般是记叙文，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。写作手法多采用时间、空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终。命题以细节为主，推理为辅。应特别注意对人物的外貌、语言、动作和思想的描写，从而把握人物性格特点和作者的情感态度。若是叙述性的文章，要读懂起因、经过、结果。若是故事性文章应读懂故事的发生、发展、高潮、结局。