加载中…【原创】英语美文与完形填空:The Hottest Day
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【原创】英语美文与完形填空：The Hottest Day
【博主按语】小男孩出于天生的一颗爱心去呵护奄奄一息的小鹿，感动了上帝，突降甘霖...
It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a
month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving
milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It
was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was
through.
Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of trying to get water to the fields. Lately this process had involved taking a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we didn't see some rain soon...we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes.
I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn't walking with the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could only see his back. He was obviously walking with a great effort ... trying to be as still as possible.
Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came
running out again, toward the house. I went back to making
sandwiches; thinking that whatever task he had been doing was
completed. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in
that slow purposeful stride toward the woods. This activity went on
for an hour: walking carefully to the woods, running back to the
house.
Finally I couldn't take it any longer and I crept out
of the house and followed him on his journey (being very careful
not to be seen...as he was obviously doing important work and
didn't need his Mommy checking up on
him).
He was cupping both hands in front of him as he
walked, being very careful not to spill the water he held in them
... maybe two or three tablespoons were held in his tiny hands. I
sneaked close as he went into the woods. Branches and thorns
slapped his little face, but he did not try to avoid them. He had a
much higher purpose.
As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site. Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. A huge buck with elaborate antlers was dangerously close. But the buck did not threaten him...he didn't even move as Billy knelt down.
And I saw a tiny fawn lying on the ground; obviously
suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion, lift its head with
great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy's hand.
When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house
and I hid behind a tree.
I followed him back to the house to a spigot to which
we had shut off the water. Billy opened it all the way up and a
small trickle began to creep out. He knelt there, letting the drip,
drip slowly fill up his makeshift "cup," as the sun beat down on
his little back.
And it came clear to me: The trouble he had gotten
into for playing with the hose the week before. The lecture he had
received about the importance of not wasting water. The reason he
didn't ask me to help him. It took almost twenty minutes for the
drops to fill his hands. When he stood up and began the trek back,
I was there in front of
him.
His little eyes just filled with tears. "I'm not
wasting," was all he said.
As he began his walk, I joined him...with a small pot
of water from the kitchen. I let him tend to the fawn. I stayed
away. It was his job. I stood on the edge of the woods watching the
most beautiful heart I have ever known working so hard to save
another life. As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit
the ground, other drops...and more drops...and more suddenly joined
them. I looked up at the
sky.
It was as if God, himself, was weeping with
pride.
Some will probably say that this was all just a huge
coincidence. Those miracles don't really exist. That it was bound
to rain sometime. And I can't argue with that... I'm not going to
try.
All I can say is that the rain that came that day
saved our farm just like the actions of one little boy saved a
life.
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完形改编：
It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen __1__ in almost a month. Every day，my husband would __2__ the process of trying to get water to the fields.__3__ we saw some rain soon，we would lose everything.
On this day I learned the true lesson of __4__ and witnessed(见证) the only __5__ I had ever seen. I was in the kitchen when I saw my son，Billy，walking toward the __6__.He was walking with effort，trying to be as __7__ as possible. Minutes after he __8__ into the woods，he came running back. I went back to make sandwiches，__9__ that whatever he had been doing was completed. Moments later，__10__，he was once more walking slowly toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour.__11__，I couldn't help following him and saw the most amazing __12__.
I stood on the edge of the woods，watching the __19__ boy working so hard to save another life. As my tears began to hit the ground，they were suddenly joined by other drops. It was as if the God himself was __20__ with pride. The rain that day saved our farm just like the actions of one little boy who saved another.
1.A.water
2.A.take over
3.A.Before
5.A.miracle（奇迹）
B．lesson
6.A.fields
7.A.quiet
8.A.jumped
9.A.thinking
B．wondering
10.A.although
11.A.Actually
12.A.sign
13.A.screamed
14.A.lovely
15.A.And
16.A.thirst
17.A.lost
18.A.upset
19.A.kind
20.A.raining
B．appearing
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