2019学年度人教版选修七Unit 1Living well课时作业(一)Section Ⅰ Reading

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　Birthday celebrations are meant to be fun.__1__，they often turn into expensive nightmares with wasted food and__2__gifts.They also come year after year，which means the waste will__3__for years to come!

　　My older daughter__4__four last week. It was the first time ever that we had a real "birthday party" for her. Needless to say，I was incredibly__5__with a number of things to deal with. I planned for weeks and even lost a few nights of sleep over it. Fortunately it worked out really__6__in the end.

　　In order to have a simple birthday party，you need to plan early.By "plan"，I don't mean__7__the menu；this is more about sitting together with the birthday child to__8__about what he or she wants for a party. Planning early will give you time to__9__if problems arise.

　　A birthday party can be incredibly simple if we consider it as a "celebration"__10__a "party"．For my daughter，her birthday was about friends，fun，and__11__gifts with the sick kids in the hospital. She smiled with__12__every time I told a relative or a friend about her choice to give her own gifts to the kids in the hospital.

　　Having a simple birthday party could be hard if you are going against the__13__of friends and the extended family.__14__the rest of the family in the birthday discussion-this will make the process a little easier.__15__your plan to a few close friends，__16__if it needs their cooperation in some way.I had a__17__with a few friends when I planned for my daughter's birthday party.It helped them understand my idea，and it helped me feel__18__with my decision.

A celebration does not__19__with just the party. Afterwards，talk about why the day was so much fun with your child，and__20__the best parts for happier and more meaningful birthday parties in the future.