Day 10
Passage 1
Our parakeet (长尾鹦鹉) Chip and Goldie, a stray tortoiseshell kitten we took in, 1. (grow) to be best friends, eating and playing together. I was a member 2. a bird conservation organization at the time, so we often took care of injured 3. (bird). Goldie helped raise dozens of injured and orphaned native birds,4. (act) as a watchful guardian. One day, it was Chip who needed Goldie’s supervision. I had left a large bowl of pancake batter (面糊)5. (cover) in the kitchen. But while I was out of the room, Chip climbed onto the bowl to have 6. taste but soon fell in and sank.7. (luck), Goldie was on hand and stuck her face in the bowl to fish Chip out. She cleaned his face and beak so he could breathe before running to alert me with a loud meow. I followed Goldie,8. was also covered in batter, back into the kitchen and 9._______(find) a battered budgie on the floor. After being washed, dried and warmed, Chip made a full 10. (recover). Bowls were always covered in future and Goldie and Chip remained the best of friends.
Passage 2
Eleanor Roosevelt’s parents died when she was nine, so she 1. (raise)by her grandmother and sent to school in England. There she was influenced by headmistress Marie Souvestre, 2. worked for social causes. As a young adult, Eleanor participated 3. social work before she married Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After her husband entered politics, she worked for 4. American Red Cross during World War I and later became more involved in politics herself.
In the early 1930s, Mrs Roosevelt became a 5. (lead )activist for women’s rights. When her husband was elected President of the United States, Mrs Roosevelt helped other women get appointed to government 6. (position). She traveled around the country, visited coal mines and slums（贫民窟），and 7. (speak) out for the poor. After her husband’s death, Mrs Roosevelt was appointed by President Truman 8. (be) a delegate（代表） to the United Nations, where she supported the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights. This service in the UN was probably her 9. (great) achievement. Eleanor Roosevelt devoted 10. (her) to the causes of humanity and was loved by many.
Keys
Passage 1
1 grew 2 of 3 birds 4 acting 5 uncovered 6 a 7 luckily 8 who 9 found 10 recovery
Passage 2
1 was raised 2 who 3 in 4 the 5 leading 6 position 7 spoke 8 to be 9 greatest 10 herself
微信/支付宝扫码支付