隆昌县高考英语一轮复习完形填空专练1 (2017·马鞍山市高中毕业班第一次教学质量检测) A certain good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years.She__1__immediately and would have done anything to have taken the words back.__2__she said hurt the friend so much that this good woman was herself hurt__3__the pain she caused.__4__to cancel what she had done,she went to an older,wiser woman in the village,explained her situation,and asked for__5__. Listening to her,the older woman__6__the younger woman’s distress and knew she must help her.She also knew she could never__7__her pain,but she could teach.She knew the__8__would depend only on the character of the younger woman.She said,“Tonight,take your best feather pillows and put a single feather on the doorstep of each house in the town__9__the sun rises.” The young woman hurried__10__to prepare for her chore,even though the feather pillows were very__11__to her.All night long,she labored alone in the cold.Finally the sky was getting__12__,she placed the last feather on the steps of the last house.Just as the sun rose,she returned to__13__. “Now,” said the wise woman,“Go back and__14__your pillows with the feather you have put on the steps.Then everything will be__15__it was before.” “You know that’s__16__!The wind blew away each feather as fast as I placed them on the__17__!” The younger woman was surprised. |