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江苏 高二上学期 英语 2018--2019 10月 月考分类汇编---完型(含答案)
江阴南菁中学
During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California. I went to live there in order to be ___16___ him. I hated the place. I had never ___17___ been so unhappy. My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was ___18___ — almost 125°F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌). ___19___ a soul to talk to. The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were ___20___ with sand, sand, sand!
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was ___21___ and coming back home. I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I ___22___ be in prison! My father answered my ___23___ with just two lines — two lines that will always sing in my ___24___— two lines that completely changed my life:
Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
I read those two lines ___25___. I was ashamed of mysel