题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
湖北省大冶市第一中学2019-2020学年高二上学期英语10月月考试卷
It was a cold, rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up for two hours along the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she had1that I come to see something at the top of the mountain. So here I was, 2making the two-hour journey through the thick fog. Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I inched along the 3 highway.
"I'll stay for lunch, but I'm 4back home straight after that," I announced when I arrived.
"But I need you to drive me to the garage to5my car," Carolyn said. "Could we6 do that?"
Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out. To my7, the views before my eyes were 8 words.
From the 9 of the mountain, sloping for several acres across valleys, were rivers of flowers in bloom. A mass of 10 —from the palest ivory to the deepest lemon and then to the most vivid pink—shone like a carpet before us. It looked 11 the sun had spilled gold down the mountainside.
A series of questions 12 my mind. Who13 such beauty? When? How?
As we approached the house that14 in the center of the land, we saw a sign that 15: "Answers to the Questions; I Know You Are 16."
The first answer was: "One Woman—Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain." The second was: "One at a Time." The third: "17 in 1958."
As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen. The18of it would not let me go. "Imagine," I said, "if I'd had a vision and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have 19?"
Carolyn looked at me, smiling. "Start tomorrow," she said. "20 yet, start today."
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