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2021届高考英语模拟题之书面表达精选精析(一)13
读后续写类25篇(四)
1.(2020·江苏连云港市·高三期中)阅读下面的材料,根据其内容和所给的段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I was six years old and my sister, Sally Kay, was a submissive(顺从的)three. For some reason,I thought we needed to earn some money.I decided we should "hire out" as maids. We visited the neighbors, offering to clean houses for them for a quarter cents.
Reasonable as our offer was,there were no takers. But one neighbor telephoned Mother to let her know what Mary Alice and Sally Kay were doing.Mother had just hung up the phone when we came bursting through the back door, into the kitchen of our apartment. “Girls,” Mother asked, “ Why were you two going around the neighborhood telling people you would clean their houses?”
Mother wasn't angry with us. In fact, we learned afterwards, she was amused that we had come up with such an idea. But, for some reason, we both denied having done any' such thing. Shocked and terribly hurt that her dear little girls could be such“bold-faced(厚颜无耻的)liars,"Mot