高考英语限时训练(23)-人教版高三全册英语试题.pdfVIP

word 2015 届高三英语限时训练 (23) (1) My 14yearold son， John，and I spotted the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. Whilethe other coats dropped 〔低垂〕，this one looked as if it were __1_.The coat had beautiful tailoring，a Fifth Avenue label and a〔n〕__2__ price of $28，which was popular just then with __3__，but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better，bearing that __4_ of classic elegance. John tried it on and the fit was perfect. John __5__ the coat to schoolthe next day and came home wearing a big smile “Did the kids like your coat ？〞 I asked. 〞 They loved it，〞 he said，__6__ folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks，a __7__ came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness 〔作对〕and reasoned discussion replaced fierce __8__.He became more mannerly and __9__，eager to please. He would generously loanhis younger brother his tapes and lecture him __10__ his behavior. When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and __11__ what caused the changes， she said laughing. 〞 It __12__ be his coat！〞 Another teacher told him she was giving him a good __13__ not only because he had earned __14__ but because she liked his coat. At the library，we ran into a friend “Couldthis be John？〞 he asked surprisingly，__15__ Johns new height，assessing the cut of his coat and extending his hand，one gentleman to another. John and I both know we should never __16__ a persons clothes for the real person within them.__17__ there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for __18__ what is on the inside to what is on the outside. For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to __19__ as it is to try on a coat. The whole world，the whole future is stretched out ahea