题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
江苏省淮安市2018-2019学年高二上学期英语期末考试试卷
In the early days of reality television(电视真人秀),I would get emails about competitions . In 2005, one arrived named Country Pub .It offered a(n)1 for couples to compete to run a pub.
My partner, Monica, and I filled in the 2, and luckily we were invited to a filmed interview,But at Christmas I got a call saying we weren't going to be 3 and would be kept on the reserve list .We forgot all about it. 4 a few months later we were told the first couple had5 out and they wanted us to step in.
On voting night, we won after a close game. But the producer told me the lease (租约), in fact,6 to someone else. Towards the end of filming, we were 7 with a contract(合同)offering us 8 as pub managers for salary of £18,000. We wanted it so badly that we 9 .
The show called Nobody's Inn was 10 on ITV several months later, in June 2006. Many people 11 it, which made the pub more popular .
However, the leaseholder never wanted us there at all. 12, we conflicted . He sent me to work behind the 13 at another of his places. Seven months later, we 14 . At the locals in Plymouth saw us off and some 15 couldn't hold back tears.
By then, we had found somewhere else and 16 there at Christmas 2006. It was everything we wanted the 17 experience to be: we even won a Campaign for Real Ale award. In 2009, we moved to Monica's village. Nowadays we still run it, and keep in touch with some of the 18 from Plymouth.
The dream we were chasing might have gone 19, but we wouldn't be where we are now20 a few months behind the bar of Nobody's Inn.
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