Unit 4 Wildlife Protection课时作业

Learning about language

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　In 1973, I was teaching elementary school. Each day, 27 kids__1__ "The Thinking Laboratory." That was the__2__students voted for after deciding that "Room 104" was too__3__．

　　Freddy was an average__4__， but not an average person. He had the rare balance of fun and compassion (同情). He would__5__the loudest over fun and be the saddest over anyone's__6__．

　　Before the school year__7__， I gave the kids a special __8__， T－shirts with the words "Verbs Are Your__9__"on them. I had advised the kids that while verbs (动词) may seem dull, most of the__10__things they do throughout their lives will be verbs.

　　Through the years, I'd run into former students who would provide__11__on old classmates. I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his__12__ from high school and remained the same__13__person I met forty years before. Once, while working overnight at a store, he let a homeless man__14__in his truck. Another time, he__15__a friend money to buy a house.

Just last year, I was__16__a workshop when someone knocked at the classroom door. A woman__17__the interruption and handed me an envelope. I stopped teaching and__18__it up. Inside were the "Verbs"