易错题型集训十二

一、完形填空

Every Friday night, Winston would stand at the gate of the railway station to play his violin happily. He smiled to everyone and many people put money into the __1__ in front of him. One day, Winston __2__ and put his hat on the ground as usual. But __3__ from what he always did in the past days, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground.

It said: Last night, a gentleman named George Miller left an important thing __4__ my hat by mistake. Please come back, Mr. Miller. About half an hour later, a middle­aged man rushed to Winston in a hurry and said, “It is you! I know that you are an honest man and will __5__ be here.”

Winston asked, “Are you Mr. Miller? Did you lose anything yesterday？” “Yes, a lottery (彩票) ticket！” answered the middle­aged man quickly. Winston then __6__ it to the man. When the man knew that his __7__ was worth $500,000 yesterday, he was so excited that he threw some money into the young man's hat. Later he __8__ that he threw the ticket together with the money!