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I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout(付款台) earlier today. All of the checkouts were
1 , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a(n)
2 !
She wasn't happy with the number of checkouts
3 ; she wasn't happy with the amount of shopping
some people had in their baskets; she wasn't happy because this supermarket didn't have a stand where
she
4 scan her own shopping.
I listened to her
5 looking around as I loaded my stuff onto the conveyor belt (传送带). I didn't
want
6 to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I'd felt like letting someone go
7 of me, it
wouldn't be such a woman!
But then I
8 back. Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl,
9 her granddaughter. The
girl's part of the shopping
10 of some comic books.
I couldn't
11 it. I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt,
12 a space. "After you,"
I said to the woman and the girl, and
13 them to a big
14 . The woman was delighted, and even
15 to complain - until she was walking away.
So,
16 bother having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny's
complaint like a sponge(海绵). She was learning how to
17 situations like that by listening to her
granny. I'd seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some
18 into the middle of
it.
We can all complain; we can all react
19 , but it doesn't have to be like that. And, even if only for
a few
20 , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way
( )1. A. busy
( )2. A. quarrel
( )3. A. opened
( )4. A. would
( )5. A. beyond
( )6. A. something
( )7. A. ahead
( )8. A. went
( )9. A. merely
( )10. A. contained
( )11. A. think
( )12. A. taking
( )13. A. returned
( )14. A. smile
( )15. A. thanked
( )16. A. how
( )17. A. face with
( )18. A. truth
( )19. A. actively
( )20. A. hours |
B. big
B. argument
B. closed
B. need
B. without
B. nothing
B. behind
B. glanced
B. surely
B. included
B. help
B. leaving
B. pleased
B. meal
B. paid
B. what
B. put with
B. kindness
B. correctly
B. chances |
C. free
C. praise
C. left
C. could
C. with
C. everything
C. beside
C. focused
C. possibly
C. consisted
C. believe
C. bringing
C. treated
C. joke
C. checked
C. why
C. deal with
C. courage
C. negatively
C. years |
D. empty
D. complaint
D. hired
D. must
D. by
D. anything
D. back
D. jumped
D. luckily
D. made
D. forget
D. occupying
D. served
D. room
D. forgot
D. who
D. do with
D. money
D. patiently
D. seconds |