Unit 2 Cloning reading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)

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　Perhaps forty years ago Sadie left her drunk and violent husband.Needing shelter for herself and her young son she took a __1__ in a housing project for __2__ people.

　　Eventually, she got to know the residents.One redisent, Archie, didn't have a __3__ of his own but his nephew's wife and her kids would __4__ and help the old guy from time to time.

　　Sadie helped care for Archie as he battled __5__ and it was she who called the doctor who diagnosed his cancer.

　　Time passed.Sadie's son grew up, got __6__ and settled several hundred miles away.Sadie retired and __7__ into a nice little home of her own.To __8__ the loneliness she took in a series of __9__ over the years.

　　Her current dog, Muffin, with a bad temper, __10__ pulls at the end of his lead.So when a heavy fall of snow came a year and a half ago she was __11__ when a neighbour offered to __12__ the dog; just so she wouldn't be pulled off her feet and break a __13__.And each day he would spend a while talking to her, seeing if she was __14__， checking if she needed anything.But in all the time she's known him，Sadie never really thought to wonder what his last __15__ was.This morning she asked.His surname was the same as old Archie's.She was __16__ to discover the man who had been "caring" for her for the past year and a half had been one of the little kids who used to __17__"Uncle Archie"and tramp mud up and down the stairs she had to __18__.

　　She had cared for his family, now he was caring for her.Neither of them __19__ it until that moment but they were living proof of the old saying, What goes around comes around, and the circle of __20__ will not be broken!

　　语篇解读：四十年以前萨迪在贫困潦倒时到一家养老院工作，在那里结识了一位孤寡老人。萨迪给予了老人无微不至地关怀，而四十年后，老人的家人又帮助了萨迪，爱心得到了传递。

　　1．A.seat　　　　　　　　 B．job

　　C．picture D．trip

　　解析：选B　联系空前的"Needing shelter for herself and her young son"可知，她在一家养老院找到了一份工作以解决衣食居住问题。

　　2．A.elderly B．foreign

C．young D．foolish