完形填空。
Bertha Ingram had been collecting them for more than 40 years. Every once in a while she would
bring home a new book She'd sit with it on her leg, looking at the meaningless black marks without
moving the eyes and cry.
She was not stupid. She simply had not had the
1 to learn to read. Her parents were sharecroppers
in Florida in the 1920s. Sharecroppers did not own the
2 they farmed. Instead, they gave a part of
their crops (plants grown on farms for food) to the owner. It was quite a hard way to
3 , and both
of Bertha's parents worked hard in the fields. Often Bertha had to leave school to help. Before she was a
teenager, Bertha's schooling was
4 .
Bertha Ingram didn't learn to read
5 her early married life, either. She wanted to, but she was
always too busy. She worked all day.
Bertha Ingram's mind was sharp (敏锐的). As a housekeeper for other people, she had to memorize
telephone messages. She became a good cook too, but she had to
6 everything she did because there
was no cookbook she could read, and she couldn't write down what she had done.
In 1978 Bertha Ingram became very ill with a stroke (中风). This illness
7 her to lose the use of
one arm and both legs. It also weakened her ability to speak.
8 she began to get better, she had a
9 thought - for the first time in her life. Because she couldn't work, she had the time to learn to read.
In her town there was a special program that taught adults to read, but Bertha Ingram was quite
nervous. Would people laugh at her? Would they
10 to teach her? It didn't happen that way. She
had a teacher who worked very hard with her. After the first day Ingram could
11 wait to get to
the library.
As she learned to read, Ingram got more and more confidence (信心) in herself. She became a
reader at religious (宗教的) services, joined neighborhood groups, and
12 at meetings in the city
hall. Finally she wrote a book telling about her life. At age 63, Bertha Ingram proved that learning never
comes too late.
( )1. A.idea
( )2. A.ground
( )3. A.make money
( )4. A.over
( )5. A.during
( )6. A.write
( )7. A.brought
( )8. A.If
( )9. A.fair
( )10. A.like
( )11. A.hardly
( )12. A.arrived |
B.reason
B.garden
B.earn their living
B.on
B.until
B.remember
B.made
B.As
B.right
B.refuse
B.never
B.rested |
C.chance
C.farm
C.turn over
C.dropped
C.from
C.know
C.caused
C.Before
C.magic
C.agree
C.just
C.appeared |
D.choice
D.land
D.get them in
D.needed
D.for
D.tell
D.asked
D.Till
D.wonderful
D.stop
D.only
D.looked |