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2022届河南省部分市高三三模英语解析版试卷分类汇编
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2022届河南省郑州市高中毕业班第三次质量预测(三模)英语试题
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There are young trees near my window, growing proudly around pink flowers. My little hill with the trees ___21___ me of my childhood best friend. The ___22___ of a best friend lasts even if the friendship does not.
I met my best friend Marianne when I was 14. She sat behind me in our Grade 9 classroom. I can still ___23___ her there with orange hair. She was thin and had bright eyes, a sweet smile and an inviting openness. Once she asked me over to her house after school. We first stopped at a bakery to satisfy our never-ending ___24___. We each bought two small cakes, and started ___25___ with mouths full of cake.
The laughter never ___26___. We laughed through elegant dinners and playing hide-and-seek in the dark. We were ___27___. We sucked all the childhood juices out of our young lives ___28___ there was no more childhood to suck up. And then we were ready to ___29___.
Marianne and I went in ____30____ directions. In our late 20s, we met up for one ____31____ lunch in a cafe after I bumped into her in Toronto. We became Facebook friends and glanced over pieces of each other’s ____32____.
I recently felt a longing to call Marianne. We chatted about old times and caught up on news about our kids and parents. A few days later, she ____33____ a story on Facebook. She is living with breast cancer. ____34____, she is sweet and full of that lovely energy I noticed in our classroom. She is ____35____ life, and she wants us to do the same. I called her after reading her post, and we talked like two schoolchildren ____36____ it was 46 years later.
I’m ____37____ for her inspiring philosophy (哲学) of life, which reminds me of when we were two silly girls ____38____ the unknown of our new lives with hope and love.
When I look out from my window, I can see the little hill with its trees. I think of those ____39____ as my childhood friends and see Marianne there, ____40____ and b