完形填空
Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man,
often__
_1___that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so__
_2___ with the
city that he had to leave.
So his family moved to another city. It was the evening of a weekend,when Terry and his wife were
busily _
_3___ in tidying up their new home, the light suddenly __
_4___. Terry was regretful to have
forgotten bringing along __
_5___ and had to wait _
_6__ in a low mood. Just then he heard light and
hesitant _
_7__on his door that were clear in the __
_8___night.
"Who' s it?" he wondered. Terry had no _
_9___ in the new city, and this was the moment he especially
hated to be __
10___. So he went to the door and opened it _
_11___ . At the door was a little girl, shyly
asking, " Sir, do you have candles? I'm your neighbor. " " No, " answered Terry in anger and shut the
door__
12___ . " What a nuisance(讨厌) ! " he complained over it with his wife. " No sooner had we
settled down than the neighbor came to__
_13____ things. "
After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the same girl outside___
14____this
time she was___
15____ two candles, saying, " My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might
need candles. She ___
16____ me here to give you these. " Terry
was ___
17____ dumb by what he saw.
At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his __
18___ in life. It was his __
_19____ and
harshness with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was _
_20___ nobody else but
himself, for his eyes had been blurred(蒙蔽) by his unsympathetic mind.
( )1 .A. complaining ( )2. A. inspired ( )3. A. abandoned ( )4. A. went on ( )5 .A. candles ( )6. A. happily ( )7. A. steps ( )8. A. dark ( )9. A. acquaintances ( )10. A. offered ( )11. A. cheerfully ( )12. A. gently ( )13. A. lend ( )14. A. And ( )15. A. holding ( )16. A. suggested ( )17. A. frightened ( )18. A. failure ( )19. A. warmth ( )20. A. doubtfully |
B. reflecting B. disappointed B. wasted B. went down B. matches B. patiently B. words B. quiet B. enemies B. disturbed B. intently B. deliberately B. sell B. But B. hiding B. forbad B. disturbed B. success B. coldness B. hardly
|
C. praying C. thrilled C. absorbed C. went out C. lights C. willingly C. knocks C. noisy C. neighbors C. embarrassed C. impatiently C. slightly C. purchase C. So C. fetching C. sent C. confused C. complaint C. kindness C. actually |
D. pretending D. encouraged D. occupied D. went through D. flashlights D. helplessly D. screams D. crowded D. bosses D. panicked D. relevantly D. abruptly D. borrow D. For D. seeking D. forced D. struck D. determination D. sympathy D. specifically |