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四川资中县2017高考英语阅读类编练 完形填空。 Cure for Sorrow There is an old story telling about a woman whose only son died in an accident. In her__1__， she went to the wise man that is always__2__for his wisdom in her town and said, “What advice or what__3__ways do you have to bring my son back to life? I will__4__you with all I have if you can.” Instead of sending her away or__5__with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard(芥末) seed from a home that has never__6__sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in__7__of that magical mustard seed. She came first to a splendid apartment，__8__at the door, and said in a__9__voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a(n)__10__that I want? It is very important to me.” __11__， she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of__12__. They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to__13__all the tragic things that recently had happened to them. The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor，__14__people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own？” She__15__to comfort them till they__16__. Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But__17__she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one__18__after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so__19__in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for the special mustard seed, in fact, never__20__that it had driven the sorrow out of her life. | 
