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Unit 2 Making a difference
单元话题语法填空练习
(23-24高一下·新疆乌鲁木齐·阶段练习)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a solution 1 two of her country’s problems: rubbish and poverty (贫困). It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking local chip lovers 2 (donate) their empty chip bags rather than throw them into the trash so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.
Chip eaters drop off their empty bags at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and other 3 (volunteer) collect them. After they clean the chip bags in soapy hot water, they cut them open, lay them flat, iron (熨) them together and use liners from old coats to line the insides.
It 4 (usual) takes about four hours to sew (缝) a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve 5 family size. The result 6 (be) a sleeping bag that is waterproof (防水的), lightweight, and easy to carry around.
Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project 7 (collect) more than 800,000 chip bags and created 110 sleeping bags.
Sure, 8 would be simpler to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the goal for Oleita—whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria ten years ago with the hope of 9 (have) a better life—and her volunteer helpers. “We are working to make a 10 (different) not only socially, but environmentally,” she says.
(22-23高一下·山西大同·阶段练习)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
A UPS driver 11 (move) to tears after an entire town gathered to thank him in a special way.
Chad Turns delivers for UPS in the small town of Dauphin. On Tuesday, Turns drove into a parking lot for what he 12 (think) was a pick-up, but was greeted by lots 13 residents (居民) clapping.
Waiting for him on a table was a large card 14 (sign) by the community and a $1,000 tip.
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