活页综合提升练(二十二)
完形填空+阅读理解
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Ⅰ.完形填空
This was my grandmother’s first Christmas without grandfather,and before he passed away we had promised grandfather that we would make this her best Christmas ever.When my parents and I 1 at her house,we found she had waited up all night for us.The house did seem a little 2 without grandfather.
Grandfather had always said that the Christmas 3 was the most important decoration of all.So we immediately set to work on the beautiful artificial tree that was stored in grandfather’s closet (壁橱).Through our efforts,we finally stepped back to 4 our handiwork.It looked beautiful. 5 something was missing.
“Where’s your star?” I asked.
The star was my grandmother’s favorite part of the tree.
“Why,it 6 be here somewhere,” she said,starting to sort through the boxes again.“Your grandfather always 7 everything so carefully when he took the tree down.”
As we emptied the boxes and 8 no star,my grandmother’s eyes filled with tears.Grandfather