2014高考英语突破完形填空训练(9)及答案
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(武汉四月调测)
Sally had been studying at an art college in London for a year and,like most students,she didn't have much money. It was going to be her mother's birthday soon, and she __1__what she could buy her as a present that would be nice but not too __2__.
Sally had been __3__ in the country for many years, so every day she had an hour's __4__ by train in the morning, and the same in the afternoon.
One day before her mother's birthday, she had a __5__ lunch instead of her usual meal, and then went shopping to find her mother a nice present. When she had been __6__ for an hour, she came __7__ a shop that was selling umbrellas cheap, and decided that one of those would solve her __8__,since her mother had __9__ hers the month before.
On her way back home in the train that evening she felt __10__ because she had had such a small __11__,so she went along to the buffet car(餐车). She had __12__ the black umbrella in the compartment(车厢), but when she got back, it had gone! There had been no other passengers in it a moment before, but __13__ there were three.