Unit 4 Global warming using language课时作业
完型填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A letter to Mum and her mince (肉末) pies
When I was a little girl, you and I loved decorating the living room and Christmas tree. After ___1___, we would bake cakes. “Make enough mince pies, because Santa (圣诞老人) likes them,” you would tell me.
Christmas Eve came and you would put me on my neatly made___2___. I’d fall asleep until Christmas ___3___. I’d wake up and thrill at the ____4____ before me. At the bottom of my bed would be loads of presents. I’d scream in delight, ____5____ tearing the paper open. Running downstairs, I would ____6____ that Santa hadn’t just stopped in the ___7___: there were also lots of ____8____ around the Christmas tree.
Many years later the ____9____ continued. The only thing that _____10_____was the presents at the end of the bed — I’ve already grown up.
One afternoon while we were _____11_____extra mince pies as usual, it _____12_____hit me that the extra wasn’t for _____13_____. I said, “Those extra mince pies were never for Santa, were they? They were for you!” You never said a word — a smile was your only _____14_____.
Christmas changed in 1986, when you suffered a ____15____brain disease. After _____16_____throughout Christmas, you passed away on the 29 December.
Only now am I starting to enjoy Christmas again, and while I don’t do the _____17_____any more, I do have mince pies in the house. I leave one out just for you, as if you were _____18_____a part of my Christmas. And I make sure I put up the decorations ____19____you, and us. Thanks for the _____20_____ memories of Christmas, Mum.
1. A. cooking B. decorating C. living D. resting
2. A. bed B. chair C. sofa D. room
3. A. Eve B. morning C. dinner D. vacation
4. A. pies B. mess C. decorations D. sight
5. A. violently B. deliberately C. excitedly D. casually
6. A. discover B. witness C. describe D. imagine
7. A. apartment B. lounge C. bedroom D. kitchen