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专题09 时事热练一
1.(2022江苏扬州·高一扬州中学校考阶段练习)While washing dishes, I sometimes look into the kitchen window of our neighbor’s house. Our kitchen is always ___1___ but our neighbors, two young men whom I only know in passing, never seem to turn on their light. Once as I was washing apples, my eyes ___2___. Shadow gave way to shape. Then I ___3___ them—head bent, pouring the pickle (腌菜) juice from an empty jar.
On the first Saturday of the COVID-19 lockdown, I wanted to be a good ___4___ to them. The pandemic seemed to be getting worse. I ___5___ what the weeks and months ahead might look like. Our family have been trying to take the idea of “love the neighbour” ___6___, and sometimes that does literally mean the person living next door, ___7___ you’ve only met them from the kitchen window.
So I made a sign reading “Have a nice day!” and stuck it on my kitchen window. A while later, a sign appeared on their window with a ___8___ for us. “Thank you. You too!”
We went on like this for a few days and I thought of how this would be a nice story for us all: ___9___ by signs and moving from strangers to good friends. ____10____ around Day 5, I posted a line of a Mary Oliver poem, and that was the ____11____ of that. Maybe I was showing off, so I stopped. However, a week later, when I went out to quiet our yelling dog, I saw one of the guys. “Sorry, we didn’t find a ____12____,” he said. “We meant to,” he added. “And then we never ____13____.”“That’s okay,” I replied. And we both went back inside.
It is so ____14____ to be a good neighbour now. We can’t ____15____ and knock on a door, or even lend things. After this is all over, I have decided I will invite all our neighbors over for dinner. I can’t be a neighbour now, but I can be a neighbour then. The pandemic will have knitted us together like an old worn sock and we’ll stay that way.
1.A.mounted up B.lit up C.sprang up D.fixed up
2.A.adjusted B.glared C.choked D.closed
3.A.admired B.absorbed C.called D.saw
4.A.guide B.doctor C.