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2023浙江中考英语逆袭冲刺 名校模拟真题特快专递
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(2023春·浙江金华·九年级校联考一模)When I was seventeen, I found a watch while walking down the hallway of my high school. As I picked it up, greed suddenly came over me and I decided to ____1____ it.
When I got home from school, I found my mother cooking dinner in the kitchen. I proudly held out my prize for her to see. Mom was ____2____ that I had kept the watch instead of turning it in. Mom then ____3____ me to drive straight back to the school and take the watch to someone at the office. I started to argue, ____4____ after taking a good look at the serious expressions on Mom’s face, I realised it would get me ____5____.
As time passed, I forgot all about the watch until four years later.
____6____ I was attending college, I had managed to get a job at a supermarket pushing carts off the parking place. One morning, I found a checkbook(支票簿)____7____ had been left in a shopping cart. Immediately, I gave it to the boss there so that the ____8____ who had lost it could pick it up.
Later, as I was outside pushing carts, a man ____9____ me and told me that his wife had left their checkbook in a shopping cart the night before. When he told me his ____10____, I realised he was the owner of the checkbook I had found. I explained to him that he could go ____11____ and get it back at the service desk.
The look on the man’s face was gratitude. He pulled out his wallet and offered me some money, but I ____12____. I was proud of myself, prouder than I had been in a long time, and I wasn’t about to let something like money destroy my ____13____.
____14____, the lesson my mom had taught me that day came into focus. Mom wanted to make sure that her son would always be ____15____. Because of her, I did the right thing when I found that checkbook. Because of her, I had got a feeling of self-worth that no amount of money could buy.
1.A.hide B.throw C.keep D.buy
2.A.surprised B.satisfied C.sad D.angry
3.A.ordered B.allowed C.told D.advised
4.A.and B.so C.be