A few years ago, I was given a wallet. A beautiful elephant was woven into its front panel. The wallet was ________ to me by a close friend on my birthday.
The wallet was not only beautiful; it had a personality: it loved to run away, as I told my parents over and over again, only to receive eye _________ in return. “Frances, really, you’ve lost it again?” they would say every time I ________ it. Fortunately,I would eventually find it in my own house.
One day, _______ , as I was leaving a football stadium at a school, the wallet once again ________ from my pocket. I discovered the ______ when I got home. I searched the house and I prayed, as usual. Nothing.
But then, around a week later, my parents received a ______ on their business voicemail. A complete stranger was calling with the ________ of my wallet. “I’m calling for Frances,” a ________ came from the stranger. This man, to find whom the wallet belonged to, looked inside of it, and found a _______ which my parents had written to me. It _______ have their business phone number on it. Upon getting my wallet back, I wrote a brief letter to the man expressing my ______, and remarking on what an amazing act of kindness he had committed and that he was truly a _______ person. I would be forever grateful to him. I _______ and emailed it off to him.
I don’t know if I believe in chance or luck, but I do know I believe in ______ and in the selfless acts of kindness.
【小题1】A.handed | B.lent | C.sold | D.gifted |
【小题2】A.glances | B.rolls | C.contacts | D.shadows |
【小题3】A.needed | B.abandoned | C.noticed | D.misplaced |
【小题4】A.otherwise | B.moreover | C.however | D.therefore |
【小题5】A.jumped | B.escaped | C.flew | D.stole |
【小题6】A.loss | B.event | C.failure | D.mistake |
【小题7】A.message | B.note | C.letter | D.card |
【小题8】A.thought | B.value | C.news | D.excitement |
【小题9】A.telephone | B.greeting | C.command | D.voice |
【小题10】A.check | B.passage | C.book | D.story |
【小题11】A.seemed to | B.used to | C.intended to | D.happened to |
【小题12】A.interest | B.gratitude | C.wishes | D.concerns |
【小题13】A.remarkable | B.generous | C.careless | D.serious |
【小题14】A.opened | B.rewrote | C.concluded | D.attached |
【小题15】A.theory | B.truth | C.humanity | D.principle |