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北师大版必修三Unit 9 B卷 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2017·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. | 
