The English are often considered as unfriendly people who don't talk to strangers, but not London taxi drivers. I once asked a cabbie to describe his life to me and he didn't stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them: “Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. When we got to her house she found that she'd lost her key. So, I waited in the cab with the dog while she climbed up the window.”“ I waited … and waited … After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb up the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought that I was trying to rob the house! Luckily, the woman came downstairs, she'd gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare (车费).”
In the writer’s opinion, London taxi drivers are _____________.
A.unfriendly | B.talkative | C.helpful | D.strange enough |
From the passage we guess that the writer ______.
A.is the driver of the taxi | B.often travels by taxi |
C.is a foreigner visiting London | D.lives in London |
What does the underlined word “cabbie” mean in this passage?
A.Conductor | B.Stranger | C.Taxi driver | D.author |
The man was waiting outside the woman's house because ______.
A.he began to like the woman and her dog at the first sight |
B.the woman had not paid him |
C.he wanted to know what would happen when the police came |
D.he was trying to go on talking with her |