题型:完形填空 题类:模拟题 难易度:困难
广东省湛江市2019届高三上学期英语第一次调研考试试卷
As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her1face.
Frustrated and wet, my husband gave up his attempt to hail a taxi. I knew the feeling. Just after her first birthday, we were told our daughter Katie has a2brain illness. Since that moment, Doung and I felt like3in a marathon race where the finish line kept disappearing. We knew Katie was running out of4. It had taken months before we finally had a name for the5, but we were told only a few specialists in the world knew how to6it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to7our girl, we were in a strange city in the cold rain.
Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman8and said, “Pardon me? May I offer you a(n)9?
Before we could say10, she continued, “It's really no11for me. Just get in.”
It was then that I noticed her thick Irish12, which13me up like hot soup. We14said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please,” as we got in her car for the ride.
“Are you going for the baby?” she asked us.
I nodded my head, holding back my15.
At the hospital, we16her a dozen times for the ride. As the woman hugged me, I noticed her face was17with tears. She promised to pray for us before she left.
After three more visits to New York and two more18surgeries (手术), Katie is cured. But the voice of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant19of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our20days.
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