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① The past year, which is fast becoming just a memory, is the year I drove through the car wash at fifty miles an hour. At least, it felt like fifty miles an hour.
② That day I followed the attendant’s instructions, drove to one of those do-it-yourself car washes. I forgot that my car was a bit moody. I’d been meaning to have it checked, but it didn’t happen often enough to rush me to the garage. Anyway, then unexpectedly, suddenly we picked up speed before the astonished eyes of the attendant. The car shot through the wash cycle, the wax（蜡）cycle, and the dry cycle at a ridiculous rate of speed, and then aimed for the street at the end of the tunnel. We shot through the tunnel with what seemed like the speed of sound and rushed out into the street while I was relieved to see that no cars were approaching. The water and the wax had not yet dried — the car looked as if it had caught some terrible disease.
③ “What happened then?” Bobbie asked after I had told my family the story at an evening meal.
④ “Nothing,” I said.
⑤ “Didn’t you go back to the car wash?”
⑥ “Of course not,” I replied.
⑦ “I don’t blame you,” Peter said. “They might have arrested you for speeding in a car wash.”
⑧ We all laughed. It was a nice moment. We were relaxing after the dishes had been taken away, the pleasant smell of coffee filling the air. We had been talking about the past year and, without pausing to think of the possible consequences, I had told them about my experience with the car wash.
⑨ The story delighted the children — who are no longer children. Peter and Bobbie are married, in fact, and I realized I had given them a sort of philosophy of life for the future. I could imagine them, years from now, when they gather together and one of them will say, “Remember the time Dad drove through that car wash …?”
⑩ Other things happened last year, too, because each year has its events, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sorrowful, the ordinary and the terrific. The milestones and the small incidents stand side by side, fundamentally different in quality or kind, perhaps, but making a sweet kind of harmony.
66. The description of the second paragraph brings up images of _______.
A. disorder B. diseases C. storms D. conflict
67. Which of the following is NOT included in Paragraph 8?
A. The subject of the discussion. B. The atmosphere of the family talk.
C. The time when the talk occurred. D. The reason for the car to lose control.
68. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?
A. A reflection on car trade B. A memory of the past year
C. A lesson on driving cars D. A car accident at a car wash
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