阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that _________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light _________ me. I think I stopped _________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’ s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow _________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do _________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so _________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.

A．fast B．slowly C．carefully D．hard

A．late B．alone C．worried D．afraid

A．green B．yellow C．red D．dark

A．and B．or C．so D．but

A．return B．change C．start D．continue

A．attention B．background C．direction D．information

A．refused B．decided C．prepared D．forgot

A．hardly B．luckily C．usually D．clearly

A．danger B．excuse C．space D．energy

A．moment B．night C．afternoon D．morning

A．depended on B．looked forward to C．stayed away from D．came back to

A．though B．unless C．because D．until

A．me B．it C．him D．us

A．what B．how C．why D．that

A．tired B．ready C．proud D．sorry