题型：完形填空 题类： 难易度：普通
广东省揭阳市揭东区2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中测试英语试题
Last year, we took a trip to New York City. When we 1 our hotel, it was around 1 a.m. My son Joseph looked out at the lights of Times Square and said he wanted to go 2 . I told him it was too 3 to go out, but he kept looking out of the window and said, "Just for two minutes."
My wife and I just looked at each other, 4 and said "Two minutes". We got 5 and walked to the center of Times Square. When we got there, my son pointed at the lights and said "Dad, look!" and then started to fall asleep.
It took us 20 minutes to 6 the 20 seconds we spent outside, but it made our son happy and that meant a lot to us. That night, I learned a lesson about 7 . We sometimes can have happy moments (时刻) in our lives, 8 we often find an excuse to do something else.
Because of my son, I learned that I am the 9 enemy (敌人) to my own happiness. Happiness is a door that is always 10 . However, we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.
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Nowadays too many people have to work at weekends. Some people don't {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Others think it's terrible.
One woman thinks that working at the weekends can be dangerous. She is Kelly Smith. Mrs. Smith works in an office in Brighton, England. One Saturday, May 24, she went to the office to do some work. After she got into the lift, it stopped between the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Mrs. Smith couldn't get out of the lift. She began to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mrs. Smith {#blank#}3{#/blank#} that it was holiday in England. No one was going to work until Tuesday. With nothing to eat or drink, Mrs. Smith was very hungry and had to sleep most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning, her workmates came to work and found the lift {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. When the lift was opened, Mrs. Smith came out cold, weak and tried. She had been in the lift for more than 60 hours.
Now Mrs. Smith says, "I only use lifts if they have telephones in them!"
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