题目内容
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
It was a cold and cloudy afternoon.I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain.I realized this would mean a wet walk home 1 the bus stop.
Home was only two blocks away 2 it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy fast asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself.A pick-up truck passed us on the road and, a few minutes later, I saw it 3 (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down.“Hey, here’s an umbrella for you --- please take it.” He called out.
I stood there 4 (astonish), barely believing that the man, 5 existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so 6 (thought).“Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son.I gratefully accepted the offer, 7 (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.
This man might have needed the umbrella for 8 later during the day but preferred to give it to me.It was a lesson to me 9 it’s possible to give without expecting anything 10 return.
1.from 2.but 3.pulling 4.astonished 5.whose
6.thoughtful 7.thanked 8.himself 9.that 10.in