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  3. 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

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 storm-y 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.
The writer uses the word "monster" (para. 5) to refer to ________.
选项 A、the bad experience
B、the heavy furniture
C、the guy at the base
D、the vehicle he drove
答案D
解析 推断题。由文章的第五段第二句“Wanting only to escape the monster，I drove the Van back to its base on the Edgware Road. ”可知，当时作者想要逃离这个“恶魔”，A项意为“这段糟糕的经历”，但是经历是抽象的东西，并且储存在脑海中，所以不需要逃离；B项意为“笨重的家具”，在文中给作者造成困扰的是开货车，并不是家具；C项意为“在站点的那个男人”，此时这个人还没有出现，所以也不是指人；D项意为“他开的货车”，符合题意，综观全文，是这巨大的货车给他造成了困扰，故选D。
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