The cab went up on the footpath and 13 stopped centimeters away from a shop window.
答案：(C) finally
finally stopped（最終停了下來）表示計程車在驚險失控後，最終在距離櫥窗僅幾公分處停下，符合整段驚險過程後平息下來的敘事節奏（此為官方確認修正：原誤植為 hardly，正確答案為 finally）；hardly（幾乎不）與「有停下來」的事實矛盾，likely／mainly 均不符合語境。
四個選項都是 -ly 副詞，形態一樣，你會憑中文哪個順挑一個。
空格夾在 and 與 stopped 之間，修飾的是 stopped 這個動作。先看整句在講什麼：The cab went up on the footpath and ______ stopped centimeters away from a shop window（計程車衝上人行道，______停在離店面櫥窗幾公分的地方）。從「衝上人行道」到「停下來」是一段驚險的過程，車子是滑了一段之後才終於停住的，所以要的是講「最後、終於」的 finally。填進去讀成 and finally stopped centimeters away from a shop window。
hardly（幾乎不）是否定副詞，會讀成「幾乎沒有停下來」，與後面「停在離櫥窗幾公分處」矛盾；likely（可能）不單獨修飾動詞，要寫成 be likely to V；mainly（主要地）是在區分主要與次要，這一句只有一個停車的動作，沒有主次可分。
finally（最後、終於）、at last（終於）、hardly（幾乎不，否定副詞）、be likely to V（可能會）、centimeters away from（離……幾公分）、go up on（衝上）。
After a long day working in the office, Alexander hailed a taxi to take him home. Squeezing his body into the taxi, he noticed the shiny interior and the smell of brand new leather. After informing the driver of his 11, Alexander resorted to his reading of Dan Brown's intelligent thriller, The Da Vinci Code. Five minutes into the journey, he was on page 120: "…his Mona Lisa is neither male nor female…"
Suddenly, Alexander 12 and noticed that the driver had detoured from the familiar route. To redirect the driver, Alexander tapped him on the shoulder. Out of the blue, the driver screamed, lost control of the car, and almost hit a bus. The cab went up on the footpath and 13 stopped centimeters away from a shop window.
For a second, everything went quiet in the cab. Then the driver said, "Look, mate! Don't ever do that again. You scared the living daylights out of me!" Alexander apologized and said, "I didn't 14 that a little tap would scare you so much." The driver replied, "Sorry, sir. It's not really your 15. Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving a funeral van for the last 25 years."