Unit 3 A taste of English humour using language课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　 In 1994 I was in the midst of a depression (抑郁症). When I was depressed, I __1__ . One day I was clearing up the rooms and found a CD covered with __2__ . I wiped it off, put it in the __3__and started washing dishes. A man's voice, reading poetry, __4__my house.

　　 The sound of the speaker's voice and the words of the poems reached something deep inside me. I stopped and __5__ .

　　 I began to take poems into my __6__ , not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the __7__ . I learned many by heart. They became my therapy (治疗) and __8__ . Those poems made me wiser and healthier.

　　 __9__ , in the fall of 2008, poetry __10__me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my __11__in a small, local fund (基金会). Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: "The financial crisis __12__our fund particularly hard. We've lost everything."

　　 I stood there, __13__ .

　　 Suddenly I heard a poem, __14__ , called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me __15__ , for this exact moment, like the perfect helper __16__on the scene at the instant of an accident. Kindness became my __17__ . I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It reminded me that this was not a __18__ , but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I __19__Kindness several times a week to carry me __20__the heart of what really matters to me.

　　篇章导读：本文是一篇记叙文。全文通过记叙作者聆听诗歌帮助他治疗抑郁症及诗歌帮助作者勇敢面对生活中突遭的不幸的故事，告诉读者诗歌具有强大的精神力量。　

　　1．A.ran B．slept

　　C．cleaned D．sang

　　答案：C　根据下一句中的"clearing up(清理；打扫)"可知，作者抑郁的时候就会打扫。故选C项。

　　2．A.dust B．paper

　　C．clothes D．bedding

　　答案：A　根据后面的"wiped it off(擦掉)"可知，CD上应是盖满了灰尘。dust "灰尘"。故选A项。

　　3．A.drawer B．player

　　C．washer D．fridge

　　答案：B　根据下文中的"A man's voice"和"The sound of the speaker's voice"可知，作者清理过CD后将它放入播放器里播放起来。player "播放机"。故选B项。

　　4．A.swept B．occupied

　　C．decorated D．filled

　　答案：D　播放器播放CD的时候，声音充满了整个房间。fill "充满"。故选D项。

　　5．A.wept B．left

　　C．laughed D．listened

答案：A　上一句中提到朗读者的声音和诗的内容触动到了作者的内心深处，所以作