二、完形填空。（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（2025·江苏泰州期中）
Tina was angry. She didn't say goodbye to me, but turned around and left my home very
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. I really didn't know why. We are good friends. Everything seemed
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to me. I would take part in a speech contest next week, but I was not very good at
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speeches. So I asked Tina for help because she had a lot of
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with that. And we finished it a few minutes later. Just after I said “goodbye” to her, Tina seemed to get angry suddenly. She
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talking to me and went away.
“Honey, do you remember what you had talked about before you said goodbye?” my mother asked me.
I thought about it carefully. “Tina asked me to buy her an ice cream as a reward(奖励). I laughed and said she was only doing me a small favour(帮助) and should
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it herself.”
“Oh, dear, that might be the
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,” my mother said. “It was only a joke. I mean,
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Tina didn't help me, I would also buy her an ice cream.”
My mother
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softly, “Tina may be angry because you said what she did was a little favour, not because you didn't buy her the ice cream.”
After hearing my mother's words, I was really
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. “Wasn't it a small favour? Tina is very good at writing speeches.
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the time we met to the time she left, it only took about ten minutes.”
“I think you should
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some more time,” my mother said. “To help you check your speech, Tina might have been waiting for your call the whole
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. She didn't know when you would call her. And she had to change her
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for the day. Maybe she was going to the library or see her favourite movie.”
My mother was right. If I were Tina, I would be even
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. I must give Tina a call and thank her sincerely.
（
C
）1. A. happily B. bravely C. quickly D. carefully
（
B
）2. A. strange B. perfect C. useful D. similar
（
A
）3. A. writing B. reading C. watching D. learning
（
D
）4. A. chances B. hobbies C. information D. experience
（
A
）5. A. stopped B. forgot C. kept D. practised
（
B
）6. A. ask for B. pay for C. wait for D. look for
（
B
）7. A. time B. problem C. money D. difficulty
（
C
）8. A. so that B. while C. even if D. because
（
A
）9. A. spoke B. shouted C. suggested D. turned
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D
）10. A. bored B. excited C. funny D. surprised
（
C
）11. A. At B. Before C. From D. Until
（
C
）12. A. share B. add C. spend D. choose
（
D
）13. A. year B. month C. week D. day
（
C
）14. A. result B. course C. plan D. life
（
D
）15. A. calmer B. busier C. funnier D. angrier
