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期末考前完形填空专练 1 Once upon a time, a young farmer named Sei was preparing his fields for the coming winter. His mother had recently died, and now he was all __(1)__ in the world, with no one to help him. He was thinking about his many __(2) __ and his great loneliness __(3)__ suddenly he saw a snake moving across the ground. Sei watched it walk slowly towards some flowers where a spider（蜘蛛）was hanging by a thread（细丝）from her web. The spider __(4)__ him to think of his mother so Sei ran forward and drove the snake away. __(5)__ by the young man’s courage and kindness, the spider stared up at him. But Sei never __(6)__ and returned to his work. A few days later, a lovely young woman came to Sei’s house and asked him whether he __(7)__ someone to weave（织布）his cloth. Sei was __(8)__. He did need __(9)__ but had told nobody. “How could you know?” he asked. The girl looked shyly at her feet. “I just know,” she said. “And I will be very pleased if I can help.” Sei led her to his mother’s weaving room. “You can work here,” he said, “while I am in the fields.” That evening when he returned from work, he didn’t __(10)__ the girl had finished much, yet the young woman showed him a dozen beautiful pieces of cloth. “__(11)__,” he said. “How could you finish so much work?” But the young woman put a __(12)__ to her lips. “__(13)__ you will never ask me that or come into the weaving room while I am working.” “All right,” Sei said. Day after day, he returned from the fields to find still more beautiful pieces. But one day Sei couldn’t help asking once again about her __(14)__. Again the woman said no. After many weeks, Sei became more and more __(15)__. One afternoon, he tiptoed to the window of the room and looked in. He nearly fell over at the sight that met his __(16)__. __(17)__ , before the loom（织机）, stood not the young weaver woman __18)__ an enormous __(19)__ with eight legs, weaving from an endlessly long silver __(20)__ she produced. 1. A. himself B. friendless C. lonely D. alo