Late last year, I needed to transport some furniture from our house in Sussex to my son’ s flat in central London. I should have

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问题    Late last year, I needed to transport some furniture from our house in Sussex to my son’ s flat in central London. I should have paid a man to do it for me, but foolishly confident in my driving ability , I decided to hire a van and drive it myself. It was a Ford Transit 280, long and wide: you couldn’ t see out of the back. You never really knew how close you were to anything else on the road.
   Reversing in my home yard, I crashed into a small shed, causing permanent damage. At least I owned the shed.
   I loaded up the furniture and set out. By now it was rush hour. My nerves broke down, as I steered the huge van through ever-shifting lanes, across oncoming vehicles, between distances of buses, at last to Charlotte Street.
   Here, I found an available parking space. As I reversed into it, I noticed three people at a pavement cafe waving to me. I got out, trembling violently, like one who has just endured a stormy Atlantic crossing. " You’ ve shifted the car parked behind you three feet," they said, and it belonged to a disabled person. I examined the car. There were white scratches along its front bumper. It bore a disabled sign. So., now I was a bad driver and a bad man. Under the stern gaze of the three, I left an apologetic note on the damaged car’ s windscreen, giving my phone number.
   I unloaded the furniture, dripping with sweat. Wanting only to escape the monster, I drove the van back to its base on the Edgware Road. On arrival, the hire man told me I must fill it up with petrol before returning it. "Just charge me," I cried, still shaking with fear. He gazed at me with understanding. No doubt he’ d witnessed others in this state before. " How about I drive you to a petrol station, you fill up, and I drive her back?" he asked.
   He danced the great van through the traffic so casually that it would have shamed me if I had not been so grateful.
Watching the hire man drive, the writer felt_________.

选项 A、doubtful
B、grateful
C、ashamed
D、worried

答案B

解析 细节题。根据题干内容可定位至最后一段,“He danced the great van through the traffic so casually that it would have shamed me if I had not been so grateful.”可知,作者当时是心怀感激的。A选项doubtful“怀疑的”,B选项grateful“感激的”,C选项ashamed“惭愧的,羞耻的”,D选项worried“担心的”,因此只有B选项符合题意,为正确答案。
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