湛江一中2014届高三第一次综合检测英语试题
考试时间: 120分钟 满分: 135分
I.语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There is a small shop about 200 meters from where I live that sells groceries, meat and other basic necessities. About 10 years ago, there was a beggar who would go into the shop every day and ask the owner for a 1 . The owner, although he would love to help, simply didn’t have any jobs available, so he kept 2 the man’s request.
This situation continued 3 for a few months, until the owner 4 to give the homeless man a job which 5 sweeping outside the shop. Every single day from 5 am, the homeless man was there doing the very best he could for the 6 , and it did earn him some pennies. 7 , the owner saw how good a job the man was doing and gave him a job working as a cashier. He was watched closely to make sure that he didn’t 8 any of the money received from the sales. He was still homeless, after all. The homeless man did a/an 9 job as a cashier for over 2 years, and did such a good job that he was promoted to 10 the finance for the whole shop.
To my 11 , this was the arrangement up until 2 years ago, when the owner 12 . In his will, he only had one 13 , to give the whole shop to the now stable, “homeless” man. Now, I could walk into that shop and see him working as hard as ever, with his own business that is still 14 and active 10 years after
