Unit 4 Sharing grammar课时作业

第一节 完形填空

　　There is something graceful about a well-made hurricane lamp, especially the antique ones. Mom had an affection for them.

　　I can remember　1　 through countless flea markets for hurricane lamps, which are 　2　 to keep their light lit through the 　3　 moments. Mom tried hard to buy the lamps in 　4　, as her favorite of all the lamps had no mate.

　　The spring after Mom's first　5　 with cancer, we went to a local craft fair to pass the time, to keep 　6　. We were still waiting to hear from the doctors on the 　7　 of her follow-up tests. 　8　 to search something for my mom, I bounded ahead of her and baby brother as they 　9　 along the tables. I didn't 　10　it far before something caught my eye. Standing proud on the display table sat a lamp.

　　I was excited, and I　11　 back through the crowd to my mom. "Mom! You have to see something!" I shouted. "　12　. I think I'm going to get these lamps. What do you think?" She 　13　 so I could see them but I didn't even look at them. "You've got to see what I found first," I 　14　 her through the fair. When she saw the lamp, she picked it up 　15　, running her fingers over the bowl, over the hurricane glass, and 　16　it closely. "See this?" she pointed at a very small mark in the glass. "The one at home has the same mark." She smiled. It was the first time I had seen her　17　 smile since the doctors first found the cancer.

　　When the lamp　18　 in our house, next to its mate, she cried. She went to light the lamps and sat on their glow until she could sleep. Years later, I understood her 　19　 for those lamps, through the darkest moments of her life. Mom was my hurricane lamp. She was inextinguishable (永不熄灭的)-through the darkest moments. She lit my way without 　20　. She still does.

1.A.seeing B.finding C.living D.searching

2.A.designed B.allowed C.decided D.evolved

3.A.happiest B.coldest C.busiest D.hardest

4.A.group B.double C.pairs D.packs