长沙市望城区2017高考英语完形和阅理一轮练习8

　　[2017·河南省郑州市高中毕业班质量预测]

　　One summer I was driving from my hometown of Tahoe City, California, to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert,

　　I passed a young man standing by the roadside.

　　He had his

　　thumb out and held a gas can in his__1__hand.

　　I drove right

　　by him. There was a time__2__you'd be called a jerk for

　　passing by somebody in need. Now you are a fool for__3__.

　　“I don't want to get involved” seems to have become a national motto.

　　Several days__4__I

　　was still thinking about the hitchhiker(搭便车的人),

　　about how I didn't ever lifted my foot

　　off the accelerator for him.

　　“Does anyone stop any more？”

　　I wondered.

　　Blanche DuBois once said, “I have always depended on the__5__of strangers.” Is that possible these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey across the US without any__6__， just relying on the good will of others. What would happen? Would he find food, shelter and support?

　　The idea intrigued (激起兴趣) me.

　　The week I__7__37, I realized that I had__8__done something truly crazy.

　　So I decided to really do it: travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. I would only__9__offers of rides, food and places to sleep.

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