题型:完形填空 题类: 难易度:困难
广东省广州市花都区2023-2024学年七年级下学期英语期中测试
Have you ever been sad because you failed in something? If so, please remember achieving(实现) what you expect(期望) is not the most1 thing.
One day after watching a science program, a little boy 2 to dig a deep hole behind his house. As he was working, a couple of boys stopped to watch. "What are you doing?" asked one of them. "I want to dig a hole all the way through the 3 !" the boy answered excitedly. The older boys laughed and told him that it was 4 to do it. Then they left.
The little boy kept on digging and digging. Suddenly, a few small colorful stones caught his eyes.
He 5 them and put them into a jar and said 6 , "Maybe I can't finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I have found in the process(过程) of digging!"
The boy's goal was far too difficult, but it pushed him to7 . And that is what a goal is for—to push us to keep working!
Not every8 will be fully achieved. When you can't achieve your goal, maybe you can say, "Yes, but there are so many wonderful things that have come into my life 9 I have tried to do something!" It is the 10 joy on the journey that really has a true meaning. Just like the little boy, it is in the digging that life is lived.
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Bill Bird is a shoemaker in London. He makes shoes for people with feet of unusual. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}very large, very small, very fat or very thin. The shoes are as beautiful as those found in shopping centers. His shop is so popular that he {#blank#}2{#/blank#}he can't make shoes fast enough for his growing number of customers(顾客).
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