Unit 2 English around the world 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）

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A 16-year-old in foster care has finally found a home. His adoption caseworker (社会工作者) who has known him since he was 7, will become his adoptive mother this month.

　　In October 2013, Davion Only spoke in front of a church congregation (会众）in St. Petersburg, Florida, and made an ___1___ for adoption. He had recently learned that his ___2___ mother, who'd been in jail since Only was born, had died. He had spent years bouncing between foster homes. "My name is Davion and I've been in foster care since I was born," he said. "I know God hasn't given up on me, so I'm not giving up either."

　　The ___3___ plea (恳求）went viral, and Only's foster agency___4___calls from more than 10,000 people, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Only ___5___ traveling to Ohio to live with a minister's family. But after Only got into a physical ___6___ with one of his older would-be siblings (兄弟姐妹),the minister and his wife changed their minds.

　　Back in Florida, Only passed through four different ___7___ homes over the next year, until he called Connie Going, his adoption caseworker, to make a special ___8___.

　　Only had known Going for nearly ten years, and had asked every year if she would adopt him but she always 49. "I always believed there was a better family than us out there," Going tells Yahoo Parenting. " He ___9___so much in this world."

　　But this past July, when Only called and asked again if she might adopt him, Going says something felt___10___. "In adoption there is a 'claiming moment,' when you know someone is your child. When he called me to ask, in that moment, I just knew," she says. "When he asked me, my heart felt this ___11___ and I just knew he was my son."

　　So Going ___12___ invited Only to start spending time ___13___ the rest of her family - the other four children who she also adopted out of foster care. ___14___, Going managed to rent a bigger home, got a lawyer, and started adoption ___15___.

Only will officially join Going's family on April 22, when the adoption ___16___. "Today, I