必修二Unit 5 Music Grammar课时作业

Ⅰ.阅读理解(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)

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　　One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like"I was wrong about that，" and it is even harder to say，"I was wrong, and you were right about that."

　　I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (in many countries, eggs are sold by the dozen and are put in cartons). Then he related an incident (event, matter) and I began to remember unclearly the incident he was describing.

　　I was about eight years old at the time. I went into the store with my mother to do some shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.

　　There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there were lots of eggs in dozen and half­dozen cartons. The cartons were put three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of the piles of egg cartons. Just then a woman came by pushing her shopping cart and knocked off the cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the eggs back together, so I went to work.

　　The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees looking at some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the one who just did it. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, it is plain that the manager did not.

【语篇解读】　文章讲述了我八岁时，和母亲一起去商店。一位女士撞倒了蛋品包装纸盒，我把未破损的鸡蛋捡起来。经理却认为是我撞倒的，我怎么解释都没有用。十五年以后，这位经理向我道歉的故事。