题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
福建省长泰县第二中学2015-2016学年高二下学期期中考试英语测试
John was very shy. He hated being with others and always kept quiet, 1 what might happen if he opened his mouth.
One day, when some people were visiting, John felt so ashamed that he 2 in a bedroom. Suddenly, a little elf (小精灵) came to him. The elf shouted 3. "Please! Stop screaming (尖叫) like that."
The boy was 4. He forgot his shyness and asked, "Who screamed?"
"Is there anyone else here?"
The boy looked around. They were 5.
"6 I never say anything," he replied, trying to 7 himself. "How can I shout without opening my mouth?"
Then the elf's 8changed from anger to surprise. "Don't you know? Nobody told you that your eyes, your hands and your whole body 9 all the time?" The elf began to 10 that each part of the body speaks its own 11 and does so without stopping and how each 12 we make says something. The elf gave John a little bottle and dropped some magic water into his 13 and told him, "Now, you'll hear with your ears what people are saying without opening their mouth."
It was 14. He could hear how everyone 15 two or three conversations, even when completely silent. But what surprised him most was on his birthday when he met a shy girl. His magic ears could hear her loud 16. "I don't want to be here! I don't want to play with anyone!"
John wet the girl's ears with some magic drops from his bottle. Together, they set out to 17 which gestures to make to ensure their bodies were quieter and more pleasant. And they 18 that smiling, looking into people's eyes and 19 saying "Hello" meant their bodies stopped yelling, and so they became 20 children.
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