Unit 4 Global warming课时作业
learning about language
第一节.完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large 1 . All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to 2 the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. 3 could tell that the love they had for each other was 4 .
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a(n) 5 , "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our 6 ," she offered. "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit 7 with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together." The husband 8 . So each of them went to a(n) 9 room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and 10 what they came up with.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists. "I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her 11 . It had many items on it, enough to fill 1 pages. 12 , as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.
"What's wrong?" she asked. " 13 ," the husband replied, "keep reading your list." The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.
"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on 14 of our lists," she said happily. Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are 15 the way that you are. I don't want you to 16 anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you." The wife, touched by his honesty and the 17 of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, 18 and annoyed. We don't really have to go 19 them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and 20 . Why waste time in this world looking for the bad,