题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
宁夏银川一中2018-2019学年高一上学期英语期末考试试卷
In mid-January the weather stayed clear and cold for several days. Jess had to 1 a week of school to stay home and2 his father to manure(给……施肥) the fields. This was his bad3, for he would have to make up his lessons as best as he could. It wasn't4, though. All the boys and girls at Pumpkin Hollow School were often kept home when they were needed.
Jess5 manuring, but he couldn't get out of it. Filling the wagon(马车) with heavy manure was a tiring 6. With a full load(装载), his father drove over the fields; Jess stood in the back and spread the manure.
After several days at this job, both Jess and his father grew7 and impatient. It seemed as though life was too8 to stand. They fell into bed at night worn out, with nothing to 9 but another day of the same hard work. Jess was even 10with it. "Why does brother Ben stay in a warm prison while I myself tried to do his work? It's 11!" Jess thought.
His mother watched him 12. "You're looking thin," she said. Then she turned to Jess's father and said," Joseph, couldn't we hire(雇)somebody to help13the manuring is done?"
Mr. Wright didn't 14, and Jess guessed why. His father couldn't15 to hire a man. The hundred dollars he had paid for Ben's fine had wiped out the family's savings. Jess said, "No, Ma, we don't 16 to hire anybody. Pa and I can manage.17 I'm tired, and so is Pa. We'll18 it in a few days."
The19 look his father gave him for understanding the problem was reward enough. When they went to the fields and were silently working together, Jess was 20 he'd spoken up.
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