Unit 4 Earthquakes课时作业

Using language

第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

　　阅读下面短文，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 you put all of your books on the street outside your house, you might think they will disappear very quickly. But one man in Manila tried it and was __1__ to find that the number of the books had increased. That man is called Hernando Nanie Guanlao whose __2__ is reading books. Hernando set up a(n) __3__ outside his home to share his __4__ of reading with his local community.

　　In 2000, his parents died. Hernando was very __5__. But soon he decided to turn his home into a library __6__ his parents, because he had inherited (继承) their love of reading. He put less than 100 books outside his home for anyone who wanted to __7__ them. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want. There are no __8__ for borrowing and returning. "I saw my old books upstairs and then decided to have the __9__ use them，" Hernando says. However, he found they not only __10__ the books they had taken away, but also __11__ his collection.

　　You'd think the books would disappear soon, because no one was __12__ them. In Manila, books are __13__ to get, because the price of a book is about 300 pesos and children's books are even more __14__. Besides, libraries are not __15__ in Manila. Even the national library there does not __16__ people to borrow books.

Since Hernando's library was __17__， a lot of people have __18__ Hernando by adding their own books to his collection. These days, there are __19__ everywhere in and around Hernando's house. His car has been forced out of the garage to make more __20__ for those books.