完形填空（共20小题，20分）

完形填空（共20小题，20分）
The sun was shining when I got on No. 151 bus. We passengers sat jammed in heavy clothes. No one   36  . That’s one of the unwritten rules   37  we see the same faces every day, we prefer to   38  behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using them to keep   39  distance.
As the bus came near the Mile, a   40  suddenly rang out, “Attention! This is your   41  speaking.” We looked at the back of the driver’s head. “Put your   42  down, all of you.” The papers came down. “Now, turn and   43  the person next to you.”
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an old woman. I saw her   44  every day. We waited for the next   45  from the driver. “Now repeat after me. Good morning, neighbor!”
But our voices were a little   46  . For many of us, this was the   47  word we had spoken that day. When we said them together, like   48  to people beside us, we couldn’t help   49  . There was the feeling of relief. Moreover, there was the sense of ice being   50  . To say the three words was not so   51  after all.
The bus driver said nothing more. He didn’t   52  to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard laughter, a   53  sound I had never heard before in this bus.
When I   54  my stop, I said goodbye to my seatmate, and then   55  the bus. That day I was starting happily.
36. A. spoke         B. said          C. stood        D. told 
37. A. as            B. because       C. when        D. although
38. A. read          B. sit            C. talk         D. hide 
39. A. ours          B. your          C. their         D. its
40. A. call           B. noise         C. sound        D. voice
41. A. conductor      B. driver        C. neighbor     D. seatmate
42. A. papers        B. bags          C. books        D. clothes
43. A. see          B. meet           C. face         D. greet
44. A. still          B. nearly         C. even         D. hardly
45. A. turn         B. talk           C. order         D. remark
46. A. loud         B. neat          C. slow          D. weak
47. A. first         B. last           C. best          D. only
48. A. passengers    B. citizens        C. patients     D. school children
49. A. shouting      B. crying        C. smiling       D. wondering
50. A. formed       B. heated         C. broken        D. frozen
51. A. sad          B. hard           C. ordinary       D. shy
52. A. need         B. want           C. like          D. begin
53. A. different      B. warm          C. loud          D. happy
54. A. arrived       B. reached        C. left           D. found 
55. A. jumped off    B. left for         C. got on        D. waited for