Unit 4 Make the news learning about language课时作业

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Ⅰ.完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Cancer Cancelled

　　(2017·北京模拟)My name's James and I am an 18­year "Cancer Survivor". When I was 15 years of age, I was at my house one day with my two sisters and when I tried to run up the steps, I blacked out, and __1__ the stairs very hard. When I came to myself, I remembered my sisters saying "Are you alright？" and I replied "I think so, yeah." But little did my sisters and I know that was the beginning of this __2__. When I began to try to climb the stairs, my whole right leg hurt seriously. I couldn't move it __3__ the assistance of my hands. The __4__ was horrible. I finally made my way upstairs and I couldn't __5__ I couldn't move my leg. As time went on it got __6__ so a month later I finally went to hospital. I explained to the doctor what had happened. Then I was asked to go to the rooms __7__ they treated me to the X­rays, MRI, and CAT SCANS machines. One week later, my doctor __8__ the house and said, "You need to come up here right away！"

　　My mother and I __9__ up there and they had the X­rays results ready for me - My body seemed __10__ except my right leg. I was surrounded by doctors and nurses.

　　I got my __11__， but wasn't clear on what was happening. They __12__ us back home. Three days later, they __13__ an expert from another continent or someplace and he looked at my X­rays one time and said "OH MY GOD, this young man has bone cancer."

　　Once all of that got cleared up, they __14__ my chemotherapy(化疗)treatments a week later. On October 9, 2014, I had the surgery, the bone replacement surgery. I was told that I couldn't __15__ like a normal person anymore, so __16__ was impossible. I couldn't do this or that, etc. Basically my __17__ was over before it even got started. When I got through with my final chemotherapy I was __18__ 40 kg.

　　I want to share this story with you guys because today I'm 84 kg with 2% body fat. I don't smoke or drink. I can walk and even run. I'm so __19__ to be here and forever to grace life with my presence each day. My dream is to become the " __20__ " to everybody who ever thought about giving up on life because it's so hard, or just simply not living it.

1. A. took　　　　　　　　 B. moved

C. hit D. climbed

2. A. dream B. terror

C. day D. memory

3. A. without B. from

C. with D. for