Ⅰ.完形填空
(2021年八省联考)
This happened when I was ten. On a normal Sunday, I went to the barber shop where I always went. That day, along with the barber there was an assistant, who had recently __1__ the shop.
So I sat for the haircut. The uncle asked me how __2__ I wanted it. I answered, “Just do as my dad had __3__ you the last time. ”
He smiled. Before starting the __4__ , he added, “What if I keep it long?”
I __5__ he was joking. So I joked too. I said, “I can’t __6__ what would happen to your shop then!”
The moment I said it, the assistant __7__ from behind. “How dare do you say that! Who are you to take us down, eh?”
I admit I was too __8__ at that moment and the uncle standing beside me was giving me an __9__ look.
From that day on, I __10__ stopped joking about anyone’s profession and works. It is one of the most __11__ incidents in my life, which taught me to __12__ the profession and works of a person, no matter how __13__ they are.
I’m __14__ that the assistant responded in a way that made me rethink the power of my words. Words do make a __15__.
( )1.A.left B.opened
C.joined D.visited
( )2.A.much B.long
C.often D.soon
( )3.A.instructed B.invited
C.promised D.convinced
( )4.A.discussion B.journey
C.training D.haircut
( )5.A.agreed B.heard
C.hoped D.knew
( )6.A.forget B.tolerate
C.guarantee D.understand
( )7.A.urged B.shouted
C.laughed D.helped
( )8.A. angry B.proud
C.scared D.curious
( )9.A.anxious B.appealing
C.encouraging D.awkward
( )10.A.suddenly B.completely
C.temporarily D.regularly
( )11.A.important B.exciting
C.strange D.interesting
( )12.A.learn B.enter
C.change D.respect
( )13.A.hard B.small
C.good D.complex
( )14.A.sorry B.confident
C.grateful D.embarrassed
( )15.A.difference B.mistake
C.choice D.joke