题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
山东夏津重点中学2021-2022学年高二下学期5月第五次周清英语试题
When I was a child my father taught me five words: stand porter to your mind. I've used it all my life—in my acting career, as a mother, and in my 1 activities. Nowadays this phrase might seem old-fashioned, but it still 2.
A porter is a gatekeeper, someone who stands at a door letting people in or out. Dad would get me to picture myself stopping 3 things—such as fear—at the door, but saying "Come in" to faith, love and 4.
As an actress, before I went on camera, I'd make sure anxiety stayed out and confidence in my ability 5. And as a mother, when I was anxious about my children, I would try not to let worry in but would fill my mind with 6 in them.
Of course, there were always times when I'd 7 those words. I remember one time 8. In 1972 my husband and I opened our own hotel. This was a new business venture (企业) for us, and it was more 9 than we had figured. Something was 10 going wrong. Once, a flu epidemic (流感) suddenly left us with no maids. Then there was the energy crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California 11. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept 12 money? Here I was at the front desk of the hotel, and those old uninvited guests, fear and worry, were sneaking in. But I 13 them just in time. I stood porter. I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.
These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to 14, I just smile and point to the 15 that reads No Vacancy (空房).
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