2021年牛津译林版英语九年级中考考前冲刺阅读提升训练卷5

译林牛津英语九年级中考阅读训练卷5 完形填空。 Recently, I went to see my dentist. As I returned from my dentist’s office, I ___1__about the story about one of his patients. About to open his __2____, with the drill(钻头)lowered toward him, the patient said, “Be careful, I can stand anything but __3___.” Aren’t we all like that? We’ll do almost ___4_ to avoid pain. We always want to take the path of the __5__distance. We look for weight programs that don’t require us to count calories or ___6_ our favorite foods. We look for exercise programs that won’t make us too uncomfortable and tired. We avoid the ___7___ teachers and the tiring classes in school, ___8___ we don’t want to face the difficult tasks. We don’t like the hard work required to __9__ the goals we truly want in our lives. Why are we like this? Why can’t we naturally take the path we know is the _10___ for us? What might be the key reason is that our nature is to avoid the pain diet, exercise, difficult classes and hard work. If you realize that yo