Unit 4 Sharing Using language课时作业

第一节 完型填空

　　Wildflowers in a mountain meadow are a gift of nature. But what about those wildflowers blooming along busy 　1　? Well, nature had a 　2　.

　　Claudia Alta Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson, the wife of our thirty-sixth President, Lyndon B. Johnson wanted

　3　to be a national priority.

　　As a little girl growing up in "Deep East Texas", wildflowers helped her get through 　4　 times. Her mother had died when she was five, and her father 　5　 most of his time at the general store he owned. Her older brothers were away at school, 　6　 Lady Bird turned to nature for 　7　. "Nature was my friend and my teacher," she says. "It was a joy to me, and it's never 　8　 me."

　　After high school, Lady Bird left home for the University of Texas in Austin.　9　 she found joy in nature-in the vast quantities of Texas bluebonnets (得克萨斯州矢车菊). It was there that Lady Bird met and fell in love with Lyndon B.Johnson. He proposed to her on their first 　10　.

　　"The whole country 　11　 the President," Lady Bird said, "but only one man selects the First Lady-and it is highly 　12　 that he was thinking of her as First Lady when he proposed!"

　　When she got to know the 　13　 disappearance of "America the Beautiful" due to land development and pollution, Lady Bird 　14　 the President to propose a Highway Beautification Act that allocated money to

　15　 roadsides. The act was passed in 1965. Lady Bird 　16　 that many wildflowers, like people, were immigrants. "They 　17　 the nation on the wheels of covered wagons, perhaps 　18　 in the pockets of children."

　　Lady Bird is certainly our First Lady of 　19　. She has made us see that highways can be beautiful. She is the reason why wildflowers now 　20　 our travels through almost every state.

1.A.streets B.highways C.roads D.lanes