人教版2022高考英语读后续写精读精炼（十）含答案解析.doc

2022高考英语读后续写精读精炼（十）
一：原文重现
It had been one of those days when nothing goes right. I was due at work at 8 o’clock, but I was ten minutes late because I overslept. I went straight to my regular post – the toy department. It was two days before Christmas and the department was a mess. It caused me to think back to the time when I enjoyed Christmas. That was two years ago, before I went work here.
Somehow since that time, Christmas didn’t mean much anymore, except more work and headaches. The whole day, I was cursed, yelled at and stepped on. And I still had to finish my Christmas shopping that evening. I had just finished explaining to a man why we didn’t sell firecrackers, when I felt a tug on my arm.2-1-c-n-j-y
It was one of the two kids I had been keeping an eye on for a while --- security told us to watch kids for stealing. He and his little sister had been looking at the “discount” counter, where we had all the cheapest toys. Before I even bent down to listen to him, I checked around for his sister. I didn’t see her.
“Mister, do you think this would be a good present for my little sister?” he said in a broken accent, holding up a bottle of soap bubble liquid. “I don’t want her to know about it,” he whispered before I could even answer.
I just agreed with him. He stuck his hand in the pocket of his dirty jeans and pulled out a fistful of change, asking if he had enough