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上杭三中2024届培优班英语练习(第4周)
一、完型填空
The dead mother lay cold, leaving her daughter Maggie behind. Two years before, a fall from a window had injured Maggie, and she had been unable to leave her bed since.
Joe Thompson, a 1 shoe maker, happened to pass by.
“O, sir!” Maggie cried out, “Don’t leave me here 2 !”
Though Joe looked rough (粗野的), he was 3 . Lifting the motherless girl in his arms, he went home.
“What do you bring the sick girl here for?” shouted Mrs. Thompson.
Usually he got out of his cold wife’s way, kept silent when she 4 . “Be gentle, Jane!” cried the shoe maker, “It’s a small thing for us to keep this poor little one for a single night, to make her life comfortable for a single night!”
His voice 5 and he turned his head away, so that his wet eyes couldn’t be seen. Mrs. Thompson was shocked, without answering, 6 a soft feeling came to her heart.
Mrs. Thompson prepared some bread and softened it 7 milk for Maggie. The hungry child ate with great pleasure and gave the old woman a look of 8 that awoke her feelings which had been slumbering (沉睡) in her heart for years. Joe saw 9 of his wife’s usual coldness, or rudeness.
“I don’t mind keeping her a day or longer; she is so weak.” Mrs. Thompson said. She left all 10 of sending Maggie back. She carried Maggie in her arms as well as in her heart. An angel had come into their house, disguised(伪装) as a sick, helpless child, and filled the cold hopeless house with the sunshine of love.
1.A.fearless B.childless C.homeless
2.A.alone B.off C.out
3.A.kind-hearted B.open-minded C.strong-willed
4.A.cheered up B.fired up C.got up
5.A.dropped B.rose C.shook
6.A.and B.but C.so
7.A.with B.into C.from
8.A.coldness B.shyness C.thankfulness
9.A.something B.nothing C.anything
10.A.advice B.fear C.thought
二
Four students are talking about something during the break.
Alisa
I spent all my pocket money on my new guitar. Although I love it, now I don’t have any mo