课时规范训练(十二)
Ⅰ.完形填空
(2017·河北唐山联考)Lunch hour is crazy at SAME Cafe, the 40seat restaurant my husband and I run in Denver.
A woman in a(n)__1__ suit stepped in.“Hi, Libby，”she said. Wow, what a __2__！ The first time she came to the cafe two years ago, she had no money to pay.__3__ many customers, she volunteered to wash dishes and __4__. Look at her now: confident and hopeful. Wasn't this what we'd hoped for?
In 2003, we'd __5__ this crazy dream: start a restaurant with a donation box instead of a cash register (收款台). Right away we hit hurdles (阻碍)．“There is no such thing as a __6__ lunch，” one potential landlord (房东) sniffed. I met brokers, bankers and suppliers, only to watch them __7__， shaking their heads. No bank would lend us the money to open a restaurant with no
