Unit 1 Living well grammar课时作业

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

　　My mother has spent the past 9 years working with Special Olympics. But her ___1 ___ of love, compassion and patience started 20 years ago when my younger sister, Natalie, was ___2 ___ . You see, my sister is mentally delayed and has always required ___3 ___ help; help that my mother never ___4 ___to give. My mother decided ___5 ___ after my sister was born that she would do whatever she could to give my sister as close to a(n) ___6 ___ life as possible. So Natalie's ___7 ___ was not going to stop her from living her life to the fullest. In the 20 years since my sister was born I've ___8 ___ my mom fight for my sister's rights, and the rights of those like her, in the schools and community.

　　When our family moved to Washington State in 2000, my mother got a job ___9 ___ a para-educator at one of the local middle schools. My mother has always said that is when her eyes were ___10 ___ opened to all the different things that were ___11 ___ to people with special needs.

　　It was November 2001 that my family was ___12 ___ forever. That is when my sister ___13 ___ Special Olympics. At first we would just go and watch my sister, ___14 ___ we quickly started to get more ___15 ___ . My mother and I started to ___16 ___ , and my dad was the driver. We were ___17 ___ involved in basketball, soccer, and softball.

　　When my family moved to Idaho State in August of 2012, we were sad to ___18 ___ that our small town didn't have Special Olympics teams. So what did my mother do? She took it upon herself to ___19 ___ teams in our small town. Now five years later my family is still in full Special Olympics ___20 ___ . My mother is not only my hero, but the hero of the over 30 Special Olympics athletes in Rigby, ID.

1. A. quality B. value C. hope D. story

2. A. hurt B. lost C. born D. raised

3. A. small B. extra C. kind D. mental

2. A. hesitated B. needed C. decided D. liked

5. A. later B. unwillingly C. quickly D. nervously

6. A. interesting B. special C. normal D. whole