Unit 4 Body language Language points课时作业

Ⅰ. 完形填空

　　阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　If our kids don't fall, they don't learn to get up.

　　One day in my high school, my mom 1 to pick me up from school. She had a(n) 2 day with my three naughty sisters and no doubt it had slipped her mind. After 3 at school for an hour, I walked the three miles home. I stormed into the kitchen 4 and screamed at my mom that she'd forgotten me.

　　Later that night, my dad told me I no longer had a 5 to school the next day. I 6 my mom would still take me. 7 , when the morning came, she 8 . It was the day for midterm tests, and being __9__ wasn't an option. In my mind, 10 these tests would've been the 11 of my academic career. I told her she was ruining my future and everything I'd worked 12 . But she stuck to her 13 , and that day, I walked to school. And I missed my tests.

　　My mom didn't rescue me from 14 . She let me suffer through it. She let me figure it out. She let me learn.

　　And now, I've 15 that I want my kids to experience failure because experiencing failure is 16 we grow, learn and think outside of ourselves. So, next time you want to 17 your child from skinned knees, remember that you might be cheating them out of the greatest 18 they could ever have: the power of knowing that there are natural 19 for their actions, and that they are finally 20 for the choices they make.

1. A. promised B. forgot C. happened D. came

2. A. sad B. happy C. busy D. easy

3. A. crying B. hesitating C. waiting D. calling

4. A. confidently B. fearfully C. excitedly D. angrily

5. A. ride B. way C. privilege D. desire

6. A. thought B. persuaded C. reminded D. requested

7. A. Rather B. Therefore C. Still D. However

8. A. insisted B. refused C. pretended D. agreed

9. A. late B. painful C. wrong D. present

10. A. ignoring B. taking C. missing D. succeeding

11. A. top B. burden C. change D. end