课时作业(三十一) [选修7 Unit 1 Living well]
(限时：30分钟)
Ⅰ.完形填空
The violent fights that erupted from the house down the street were told in Marianne and Kevin Naslund's neighborhood. During one __1__ terrible fight in February 2008, the neighbor's 16yearold son, Andy, was __2__ by his stepfather. Watching police cars crowd the street, Marianne __3__ that she had to help Andy before he ran away or “became an angry person who __4__ drugs and alcohol for comfort.”
A few days later, she __5__ Andy a spot on the Naslunds' living room couch. An dy, who knew Marianne's sons, Nick, then 15, and Jake, then 13, accepted. No one understood why Marianne would take in a troubled teen like Andy. At the local high school, he either slept th rough classes or made them a __6__ for teachers.
Surprisingly, her children understood. “Sometimes Andy could be a threat to me，”says Jake, “but when I thought about the future Andy would __7__ if we turned him away, I just couldn't let myself be a part of that.”
It wasn't __8__. For Andy, moving in with the Naslunds was like entering a foreign country. “I was used to getting screamed at if I ever messed up，” says Andy. But the day he was driven from high school for fighting, the scr eaming never came. Instead, Marianne calmly asked why he did it, and listened to Andy's __9__.
“I didn't want to let her down，”says Andy afterwards. “I didn't get into another __10__ for the rest of high school.”In 2010, he __11__ on time from high school.
