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第七节 完形填空之他人经历类
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(2021·全国甲卷)It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada.
Burchill was __1__ at the hotel on business and planning to __2__ some friends in the area. They had asked him to __3__ some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he __4__ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was __5__ that it would be too warm, he __6__ it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was __7__ and well chilled (冷却) and he __8__.
That's when things went __9__. “I remember walking down the long __10___ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls,” Burchill said in a recent letter of __11__ to the 4star hotel. “The seagulls immediately went __12__. They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to __13__ at the same time, and pepperoni — everywhere. The curtains were falling down, the lamps were falling down. It was a real __14__.”
Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).
“I have __15__ and I admit responsibility of my __16__,” he said in the letter. “I come to you, __17__, to apologize for the damage I had __18__ caused and to ask you to __19__ my lifetime ban from the hotel.”
His letter __20__. Banned from the hotel since 2001.Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.
1.A.studying B.staying
C.looking D.packing
2.A.visit B.help
C.follow D.make
3.A.sell B.have
C.bring D.taste
4.A.filled B.locked
C.abandoned D.lost
5.A.surprised B.pleased
C.excited D.worried
6.A.dug B.cleared
C.cut D.laid
7.A.delicious B.safe
C.soft D.ready
8.A.left B.nodded
C.waited D.regretted
9.A.far B.funny
C.wrong D.blind
10.A.beach B.driveway
C.hall D.table
11.A.application B.apology
C.request D.invitation
12.A.hungry B.dead
C.missing D.wild
13.A.wake up B.get out
C.take off D.break in
14.A.mess B.puzzle
C.fight D.challenge
15.A.recovered B.retired
C.escaped D.mature