1．I ________ ________ ________as the car skidded towards me.

　　2．Industry cannot expect the government to ________ ________ ________every time it has problems.

　　3．She ________ ________ her new skirt for us to see.

　　4．The ship ________ ________ its course in spite of the storm.

　　5．________ ________ for a minute, I've just got to put on my make－up.

　　6．He ________ ________ the map so it could be seen more clearly.

　　答案：1.held my breath　2.hold its hand　3.held out　4.held to　5.Hold on　6.held up

　　Ⅵ. 完形填空

　　My mother asked me to go to several garage sales(宅前旧货出售) with her one cool morning.

　　We finally __1__ at a pleasant house in the woods. The elderly __2__ told me that he and his wife were retired(退休的) teachers. As we were searching, I heard the gentleman's wife say her __3__ to someone, and I immediately __4__ who she was. She looked at me and said, "You're Lisa Miller." I looked at her __5__， for it had been nearly thirty __6__ since I had been in her class.

　　My mother immediately said sorry to her for any __7__ I might have made. She did that again after learning that I wasn't the sweet little child. She thought that if this woman __8__ me after so many years, I must have done something __9__. My teacher looked at my mother and __10__ said, "Oh, no, she was very good."

　　My teacher __11__ that during the last week of school, I __12__ her a plant from my mother's garden. It was a lamb's ear. She took us to her garden where she planted the lamb's ear. Over the years it __13__.As I looked down her driveway(车道) with lamb's ears on both sides, she said, "Every day when I leave my house and drive up the driveway, I think of you. And when I come home they __14__ me, I think of you." Tears __15__ my eyes. There at her home was a piece of my life that she had raised.

At that moment, she taught me more about __16__ than I could imagine. We give pieces of ourselves every day __17__ thought. We seldom imagine the effects(影响) that we have on others' lives. That piece may grow and spread, becoming a(n)