Unit 4 Wildlife Protection reading课时作业

I.完形填空

Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated ___1___ and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was __2____ it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper's eyes. These were a ___3___ woman's last words to her child. He had to ___4___ Bethany. "Whoever it is will ___5___ this," he thought. "You wouldn't ___6___ a letter like that."

He supposed if the ___7___ ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he ___8___ recognized the little girl's face. Even if she'd since left the area, there might be someone in town who would recognize the ___9___.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the ___10___ letter.

___11___, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n) ___12___ herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the ___13___. As she read her mother's ___14___, words she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be ___15___.

Gash was only 4 when her mother ___16___. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a