I was in the queue for the supermarket checkout（付款台） earlier today．All of the checkouts were
46 , and the woman behind me was not happy! Every word that came from her mouth was a（n）
47 ! She wasn’t happy with the number of checkouts
48 ; she wasn’t happy with the amount of shopping some people had in their baskets; she wasn’t happy because this supermarket didn’t have a stand where she
49 scan her own shopping．
I listened to her
50 looking around as I loaded（装） my stuff onto the conveyor belt （传送带）．I didn’t want
51 to do with that kind of attitude, and if ever I’d felt like letting someone go
52 of me, it wouldn’t be such a woman!
But then I
53 back．Standing beside the woman was a five-year-old girl,
54 her granddaughter．The girl’s part of the shopping
55 some comic books．
I couldn’t
56 it．I pushed my shopping back to the end of the conveyor belt,
57 a space．“After you,” I said to the woman and the girl, and
58 them to a big
59 ．The woman was delighted, and even
60 to complain ---- until she was walking away．
So,
61 bother（麻烦，费事） having helped? It was because that little girl was probably taking in her granny’s complaint like a sponge（海绵）．She was learning how to
62 situations like that by listening to her granny．I’d seen that I could interrupt that complaining, and put a smile and some
63 into the middle of it．We can all complain; we can all react
64 , but it doesn’t have to be like that．And, even if only for a few
65 , I wanted to leave that little soul with just a glimpse of another way．
| 小题1: | | A．busy | B．big | C．free | D．empty |
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| 小题2: | | A．cry | B．argument | C．shout | D．complaint |
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| 小题3: | | A．opened | B．closed | C．left | D．done |
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| 小题4: | | A．would | B．need | C．could | D．must |
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| 小题5: | | A．beyond | B．without | C．with | D．by |
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| 小题6: | | A．something | B．nothing | C．everything | D．anything |
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| 小题7: | | A．ahead | B．behind | C．beside | D．back |
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| 小题8: | | A．went | B．looked | C．turned | D．jumped |
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| 小题9: | | A．only | B．surely | C．possibly | D．luckily |
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| 小题10: | | A．got | B．included | C．conclude | D．made |
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| 小题11: | | A．think | B．help | C．believe | D．forget |
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| 小题12: | | A．taking | B．leaving | C．bringing | D．keeping |
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| 小题13: | | A．returned | B．pleased | C．treated | D．served |
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| 小题14: | | A．smile | B．meal | C．joke | D．room |
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| 小题15: | | A．thanked | B．paid | C．checked | D．forgot |
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| 小题17: | | A．face | B．meet | C．handle | D．improve |
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| 小题18: | | A．truth | B．kindness | C．courage | D．money |
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| 小题19: | | A．actively | B．correctly | C．negatively | D．patiently |
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| 小题20: | | A．hours | B．chances | C．years | D．seconds |
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