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A smiling face at the store
I need to get some things to clean the house this week-end, so I headed over to a local store. While walking around, I realized that I wasn’t ______ at anyone. That was out of character. I almost always smile at strangers with the _______ that it might brighten their day a bit. But in that particular moment, I was thinking of what had _______ me earlier in the day, not really in the mood(心情) to smile.
When I went to check out my things, I met _______ a very long line. People were buying Christmas gifts. To shorten the first line, a second register (收银台) opened up. I _______ turned to it. After a few moments, I began to _______ that all the people before me had lots of things to check out. I wasn’t ______ any longer, so I returned to the first line. After a short while, all the people in the second line checked out. I was _______ standing in the first line.
At last, it was my _______ to check out. I found that the man behind the register seemed so ______! He greeted me with a huge smile.
“It’s nice to ______ see a smiling face in this store,” I commented.
He replied, “I love to smile, _______ you never know what people are going through.” At that moment, he made me think of _______.
Something in me changed, and we began _______ kindness—about how it goes a long way. There was no one behind me, so we talked and laughed for a while. What a ______ it is, to be cheered up by this kind young man! I suddenly had all the time in the world.
1. | A.shouting | B.pointing | C.smiling | D.knocking |
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2. | A.hope | B.plan | C.suggestion | D.decision |
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3. | A.pleased | B.troubled | C.relaxed | D.treated |
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5. | A.slowly | B.quickly | C.actually | D.easily |
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6. | A.remember | B.suppose | C.notice | D.imagine |
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7. | A.patient | B.nervous | C.polite | D.silent |
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8. | A.just | B.ever | C.once | D.still |
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9. | A.turn | B.dream | C.duty | D.courage |
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10. | A.serious | B.calm | C.happy | D.clever |
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11. | A.especially | B.naturally | C.firstly | D.finally |
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13. | A.himself | B.yourself | C.myself | D.herself |
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14. | A.thinking about | B.talking about | C.worrying about | D.learning about |
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15. | A.gift | B.pity | C.chance | D.surprise |
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