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 stem 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.

B-46. The writer felt regretful that he had ______.

A、hired someone to drive for him

B、asked his son to do the delivery

C、rented a small van for his goods

D、delivered the furniture himself

学生答案：D

47、阅读B-46题干中Passage Four材料，完成本题。

B-47. On his way to Charlotte Street, the writer felt______.

A、Frightened

B、Annoyed

C、Relaxed

D、Excited

学生答案：A

48、阅读B-46题干中Passage Four材料，完成本题。

B-48. In the parking lot, the writer_______.

A、saw a disabled man

B、ran into his friends

C、hit another vehicle

D、examined his van

学生答案：C

49、阅读B-46题干中Passage Four材料，完成本题。

B-49. The writer uses the word “monster” ( para.5) to refer to _______.

A、the bad experience

B、the heavy furniture

C、 the guy at the base

D、the vehicle he drove

学生答案：D

50、阅读B-46题干中Passage Four材料，完成本题。

B-50. Watching the hire man drive, the writer felt _______.

A、doubtful

B、grateful

C、ashamed

D、worried

学生答案：B