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备战北京2024年英语中考训练之完形填空25篇其三
11.Joe got a bar of chocolate from his father for his cleaning work at home.(1) ______ he was ready to eat it,his elder brother Jack returned home from school.He (2) ______ the chocolate from Joe and put it in his mouth and ran away.Joe rushed to his room (3) ______ and locked the room from the inside and fell on his bed,with tears on his face,worrying about his lost chocolate.
Learning about it,his father carried a larger bar of chocolate to Joe's (4) ______ .He knocked at the door and asked Joe to open it.He even told that he had a larger bar of chocolate for him.But Joe (5) ______ to listen to his father.He lay on the bed,paying no attention to his father's knock and talk.He continued to cry,thinking about his small loss(损失).His (6) ______ stopped him from getting a much greater joy.
We may(7) ______ a lot of time,energy and chances worrying about the small losses that have happened in our lives,and blaming(责怪) the persons who we think are responsible for our losses.By doing this,we are actually refusing to receive (8) ______ gifts from life.It's really foolish action.
1.A. If B. When C. Though
2.A. ate up. B. took away C. gave out
3.A. carefully B. bravely C. angrily
4.A. room B. school C. yard
5.A. refused B. needed C. tried
6.A. hope B. secret C. worry
7.A. imagine B. waste C. notice
8.A. greater B. cheaper C. smaller
12.Be What's Missing
Where was that cashier ? Impatient, I quickly looked at my watch. I hardly had enough time to eat a sandwich and rush back to work.
I looked around the nearly empty 1 , but the cashier was nowhere in sight. A woman stood wiping the far end of the counter. She looked at me coldly with sad, dark eyes.
I 2 , getting angry. I'd been standing there for at least three minutes!
Controlling my anger, I remembered Mom's words. "Whenever you find yourself in an unpleasant situation, just think about what is missing. If someone is unkind, then kindness is missing. If someone is hateful, then