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UNIT 2 SUCCESS [对应学生课时P249]
Ⅰ.完形填空
About 35 years ago, my mother started a family tradition. For the__1__of her first grandchild, my mom handknitted (手工编织) a lovely Christmas stocking. It was a big and a very special gift. Two years later, a second grandchild arrived and Mom took out her knitting needles again.
When one of my cousins had his first child, Mom got__2__with the gift. Then another cousin had a baby, and another and yet another. Mom's knitting needles __3__a lot of activities through the years. She made more than 40 Christmas stockings to give to the new__4__of our growing family tree.
But when she was__5__by a serious disease, the first things she__6__due to it were her__7__motor skills, like those needed to knit.__8__, she just wasn't able to do it anymore.
But the__9__continued. So, I decided to__10__the needles. Mom had taught me how to knit when I was a kid. Although I didn't knit as well as she did, I studied the __11__and have continued her__12__. So far, I've made a dozen or so stockings and__13__to make many more.
Mom passed away last year. And still I continue to knit Christmas stockings.__14__, some traditions are worth__15__through love and care.
1.A.arrival B.happiness
C.benefit D.success
2.A.content B.occupied
C.patient D.familiar
3.A.arranged B.joined
C.saw D.held
4.A.appearances B.pupils
C.members D.drawers
5.A.attacked B.heated
C.judged D.reduced
6.A.noticed B.lost
C.asked D.did
7.A.awkward B.genuine
C.humble D.fine
8.A.Impressively B.Unfortunately
C.Respectively D.Formally
9.A.disease B.activity
C.gifts D.deliveries
10.A.blow up B.bring up
C.pick up D.pull up
11.A.patterns B.needles
C.festivals D.babies
12.A.theory B.privilege
C.example D.tradition
13.A.hope B.afford
C.agree D.manage
14.A.In addition B.On the whole
C.After all D.As a result
15.A.producing B.preserving
C.spreading D.promoting
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇记叙文。主要讲述了作者延续母亲创立的传统,为新家庭成员手工编织圣诞袜的故事。