Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors课时作业

　　learning about language

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　(2018·广东佛山模拟)Years ago, feeling tired and frustrated，I began to doubt whether teaching was worth it anymore.__1__， a ridiculous moment in class lit my way out of the darkness.

　　I was teaching a chemistry lesson, and the students were__2__ about working with alcohol lamps.But a girl couldn't get her wick (灯芯) to burn. She was one of the kids who always seem to be the __3__ one picked for the team, who appeared to have__4__ that she could never be special.

　　Normally I do not interfere with science projects, because__5__ can be part of the learning process.Yet this was simply a matter of faulty equipment；the wick was not as __6__ as it should have been.I needed to __7__.

　　The girl had tears in her eyes, and I felt__8__ of myself for ever having felt like giving up. For that one moment, the only thing that__9__ to me was that this girl should have a successful experiment.She was going to go home that day with a __10__ on her face.I bent over her alcohol lamp, and with a long kitchen match tried to reach the wick.I was so __11__ to the match that I could feel the flame.Finally the wick caught fire, and I looked up triumphantly (得意扬扬地), __12__the smile on the girl's face.

　　__13__， she took one look at me and began screaming in fear.I did not understand why the kids were all pointing at me__14__ I realized that the flame had lit my hair.Several kids ran to me and __15__at my head.Talk about a dream come true - they got to hit their teacher on the head and say they were__16__ her.

　　A few minutes later, all was well and I watched the kids__17__ the experiment. I felt like an idiot, and yet for the first time in weeks, I felt how much I __18__ about teaching. I had tried hard to help someone; though not particularly well, but the __19__ was there. From that moment, I determined to always teach like my hair was__20__.

语篇解读：作者是一名化学老师，在过去的某段时间里，她开始厌倦教学。但一次化学实验课上发生的小事故让她重新燃起了对教学的热情。

　　1．A.Instantly　　　　　　　 　B．Fortunately

　　C．Hopefully D．Absolutely

　　解析：选B　上文提到作者开始感到疲惫和沮丧，并质疑教学的价值，下文提到班级里的荒唐时刻引导她走出了阴暗，这种转变对作者而言是幸运的。所以B项符合语境。

　　2．A.excited B．embarrassed

C．skeptical D．particular