题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
湖北省仙桃、天门、潜江2019-2020学年高二下学期英语期末考试试卷（含小段音频）
Two Candles
Tom was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man, often 1 that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so 2 with the city that he had to leave.
So his family moved to another city. It was the evening of a weekend. When Tom and his wife were busily 3 up their new home, the light suddenly went out. They had to stop work. Tom was regretful to have forgotten to bring along candles and had to wait 4 in a low mood. Just then he heard slight knocks on his door that sounded clear in the 5 night.
"Who's it?" he wondered, since Tom was a 6 to this city. And this was the moment he especially hated to be disturbed, so he went to the door and opened it 7. At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, "Sir, do you have candles? I'm your neighbor." "No," answered Tom in anger and shut the door 8 "What a nuisance (讨厌鬼)!" he complained over it with his wife. "No sooner had we settled down than the neighbor came to 9 things."
After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the same girl outside. 10this time she was 11 two candles, saying, "My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles. She sent me here to give you these." Tom was very 12 by what he saw. When he became fully aware, he said, "Thank you and your grandmother. God bless you!"
At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his 13 in life. It was his 14 and harshness (刻薄) with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was actually nobody else but himself, for his life had been darkened by his unsympathetic 15.
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