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高考英语一轮总复习精选创新小测试系列北师大版必修三unit 9 b卷 ⅰ.完形填空 (2012•江苏南通第一次调研)i've been in the taxicab business for thirtyfive years, and i know there is a lot about it that is not so good. taxicab drivers have to be __1__fellows to be able to work in new york. you've got to fight the new york __2__eight hours a day these days, so people get the wrong __3__that they are bad. actually, taxi drivers are just like other people. most of them will __4__as honest fellows. you read in the __5__almost every week where a taxi driver turns in money or jewels or bonds that people __6__in their cabs. if they weren't honest, you wouldn't be reading those stories in the papers. one time in brooklyn, i found a diamond ring in my cab. i__7__helping a lady with a lot of packages that day, so i went back to where i had __8__her. it took me almost two days to trace her in order to return the ring to her. i didn't __9__as much as “thank you”. still i felt good __10__i had done what was right. i think i felt better than she did. i was born and __11__in ireland and lived there until i was nineteen years old. then i came to this __12__in 1913 where i held several jobs to earn a few dollars before enlisting(参军) in world war i. after being discharged (退役), i had a family and bought my own cab. life hasn't been too __13__at times, but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bit __14__ for a rainy day. when i __15__driving a cab, park av