题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
重庆市南开中学2015-2016学年高一下学期期末考试英语测试
My grandfather dug water wells in Indiana and started his business during the great depression.
Although nearly everyone was out of work, people still needed 1, so he didn't lack jobs. 2, in those days, it was awfully hard to get paid for what you did. One morning, a farmer showed up with a 3—a whole side of fresh beef on his shoulder. “I 4 this ought to make us equal on that digging, ”he said to my grandfather．Grandfather 5.
It was wintertime, so the beef stayed fresh under damp cloth on the cold back porch(门廊). Each day, Nana stepped out onto the porch, 6 good piece of the meat, and carried it into the kitchen 7 it were pure gold.
After a few days, Nana noticed the 8 had been moved. She asked grandfather if he had touched the beef. He hadn't. “Well, then. ”she said, “somebody's been eating our meat. Do you always lock the back door?” My grandfather told her not to 9. She probably had moved the cloth herself, and had 10 forgotten.
This 11 for many days. Nana was 12 that someone was taking their meat, and grandfather just insisted she was 13 things. It wasn't until much later that we learned the real story.
On the morning after grandfather set the meat out on the back porch door, he 14 some footprints near the door. He 15followed the footprints to where they began. Soon the footprints in the snow led my grandfather to a house he instantly 16. It was the home of a poor single mother with two young children. Grandfather 17 turned around and walked back home. He didn't say a word about it to anyone.
From then on, Nana would carefully 18 the lock on the porch door each night to make sure it was 19. Then grandfather, after waiting for Nana to go to bed, would return to the porch and 20 the lock again. Nana never knew about the family they were helping to feed that winter.
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