2 . One evening I was resting in a café. I______ a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then a boy came to me.
He was in a(n) ______ shirt, looking pale and about eleven. No sooner had I begun to speak than he opened the ______ in his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He _______ down, took off my leather shoes, and began to shine them.
He was busy doing his work ______ heavy rain began to pour down. People rushed to the café for ______ from the rain. More and more people crowded _______and gradually separated the boy from me.
Hours passed, and it turned _______. I had no shoes on my feet and ______ where the boy had been. I thought he would not ______ my shoes, and I would have to go home on my bare feet.
When it was near midnight the ______ ended, and there were fewer and fewer people in the café. The café was to be ______ . I had to move to the door, head _______. Just as I went to the gate, I ______ found that a boy of about eleven, looking very familiar, was sleeping at the ______ with his head leaning against a box and his upper body being ______. He held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms.
I shook him slightly and woke him up. He ______ up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he recognized me. Then he opened the package ______ , gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly. I ______ him and wrapped him with his unfit shirt, which had wrapped my leather shoes. On my way home, the boy’s image(形象)stayed in my ______.
1. A.took | B.wore | C.mended | D.owned |
2. A.old | B.dirty | C.small | D.unfit |
3. 4. A.seated | B.bent | C.put | D.looked |
5. A.when | B.after | C.because | D.since |
6. A.preparation | B.rest | C.hide | D.protection |
7. 8. A.dark | B.light | C.dim | D.bright |
9. A.thought | B.wondered | C.guessed | D.imagined |
10. A. shine | B.keep | C.return | D.carry |
11. A.work | B.coffee | C.time | D.rain |
12. A.opened | B.locked | C.stopped | D.closed |
13. A.lowered | B.nodded | C.raised | D.held |
14. A.shortly | B.surprisedly | C.sadly | D.immediately |
15. 16. 17. A.stayed up | B.kept off ![](https://img.xkw.com/dksih/QBM/2017/7/4/1722913827340288/1726538685775872/STEM/96d58e6d81c447d18a7eb5700c1ac26a.png?resizew=3) | C.jumped up | D.looked into |
18. A.finally | B.suddenly | C.unfriendly | D.hurriedly |
19. A.recognized | B.forgave | C.paid | D.inspired |
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