内容正文:
辽宁省部分市
2022-2023学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷分类汇编
读后续写
辽宁省朝阳市2022-2023学年高二下学期7月期末英语试题
第二节 (满分25分)
47.阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。
“What’s that noise?” Meg asked her eight-year-old daughter, Haley. Looking down at Haley’s shoes, Meg realized that they were too old.
Meg and Haley were on their way home from school. It had just stopped raining, but water on the road had damaged the girl’s shoes.
Meg immediately took her daughter to a store to buy her a new pair of sneakers. Although she just had enough money for groceries, she thought getting Haley a new pair of shoes was more important.
“That one, yes, those pink shoes beside the blue shoes,” Meg instructed the shop assistant.
“How about these?” Meg heard Haley say.
Turning around, she saw Haley checking shoes in the section just for boys. Meg hesitated and approached her daughter.
“Mom, I want these limited-edition sneakers for Buddy. He always tells me how he wishes to wear such shoes,” Haley said.
Meg was shocked. Not only was she unable to afford two pairs of shoes, but she wondered why Haley was interested in getting her classmate Buddy a new pair.
“Buddy is from a very poor family. Poorer than us. His shoes are torn and ugly. Everybody laughs at him. Please, can we buy these shoes for him? You can buy mine later,” Haley added.
Meg thought for a while and decided it would be best if she bought her daughter shoes for now. “You will be sick if you keep wearing your wet, torn shoes. I’m sorry, honey, but you need a new pair,” Meg insisted.
Haley sighed heavily and agreed. She was not excited to see the new pair of sneakers her mom had bought for her.
As Meg and Haley left, Bob, the shoe store owner who knew Meg well, walked to the limited-edition sneakers and sighed, too. He had overheard everything and knew what it was like to be poor. When he was a little boy, he had also been laughed at for his ugly shoes and it was his own experience that had inspired him to own a shoe store that sold footwear for peo