Ⅰ.完形填空
Byrd is in her eighth year of teaching at Wilder Elementary School in Mansfield.She has taught fifth grader Fisher Croney every year since he was in kindergarten.Fisher 1 in the class by helping in Byrd’s classroom whenever he has free time after class.
Byrd also 2 Fisher’s mother,Shannon Croney,as an acquaintance.They would occasionally chat at their boys’ baseball games.She had heard that Shannon was having some 3 problems.In January 2019 Shannon received a routine blood test and found her kidneys (肾) were not 4 normally.After going through a string of tests,doctors could not figure out what caused her kidneys to 5 .But Byrd didn’t know what the 6 was until she saw an online post from Shannon’s mother around the end of December of 2019.It was 7 to help her daughter find a kidney.Byrd did not 8 to help.In March,Byrd learned that she and Shannon were a close 9 .Even doctors were 10 that they were not related in blood.
Byrd was in the hospital for 11 in June.She was never 12 about the transplant (移植).Actually,she felt honored that her donation enabled another person to live a totally 13 life.
Today,both women are doing well.They are turning their 14 to another member of their community,who is also sick and 15 a kidney transplant.
1.A.gives in B.stands out
C.looks around D.sits about
2.A.learned B.met
C.taught D.knew
3.A.family B.behavior
C.communication D.health
4.A.functioning B.growing
C.forming D.beating
5.A.miss B.ache
C.fail D.improve
6.A.schedule B.issue
C.offer D.opportunity
7.A.intended B.allowed
C.persuaded D.urged
8.A.respond B.hesitate
C.confirm D.attend
9.A.encounter B.relative
C.neighbor D.match
10.A.excited B.embarrassed
C.surprised D.relieved
11.A.surgery B.practice
C.recovery D.training
12.A.curious B.nervous
C.certain D.frank
13.A.normal B.casual
C.strange D.dependent
14.A.back B.faith
C.attention D.respect
15.A.in favor of B.in memory of
C.in recognition of D.in need of
