人教大纲版2011届高三二轮专题复习讲义完形阅读综合突破试题（一）（英语）

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(2010·常德高三模拟)

One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got the “Help Wanted Unskilled” section.A small advertisement held my   1  .It read,“Easy job.Good wages.No experience necessary.”It sounded like the job I was   2  .Easy job.Good wages.Those four words flashed now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the   3  .Easy job.Good wages.Easy job.Good wages.Easy...

When I got to the place I saw a series of large basins half filled with water,out of which I noticed   4   the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes.Around these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches.All had their   5   in the water of the basin,the left hand holding a bottle and the thumb (拇指) nail of the right hand   6   the labels (标签) on it.

I sat down on a bench beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle.As the minutes went by I noticed that the coldness of the water started to   7   from my hand to my body.But worse still,the delicate thumb of my right hand was   8   by the minute into a full­blown tomato­colored finger.A numb (麻木的) pain began to be felt   9   from my right thumb.Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body.[来源:学科网]

After three hours of this I told the manager I’d   10  .He figured I had   11   69 cents at 23 cents an hour.

With the money,I left the working place.“Easy job.Good wages...”came to my brain again.Looking at my hands,I   12   myself,“Can easy job get good wages？”