选修七 Unit 2 高考提能练 练(一) 英语知识运用·组块专练——练准度 (限时:30分钟) Ⅰ.完形填空 (2016·郑州市第一次质检)What do photography and foster (收养的) care have in common? Apparently a lot. Jennifer Loomis, an experienced local photographer, and her husband were a childless couple, so they were considering __1__ a kid. As part of their __2__, they went online and visited sites containing __3__ of children up for adoption. __4__, the photos didnt really express the children. To Loomis’ artful eye, they __5__ to let people know who the children truly were. Loomis then contacted Northwest Adoption Exchange and __6__ a free photo shoot (专业摄影) to help __7__ children show better pictures of them to adoptive parents. The __8__ readily agreed. One child who __9__ the photo shoot was Deon, a lonely child who had bounced around the foster system. With Loomis’ great __10__, a new and more handsome Deon was photographed. And this had a(n) __11__ effect! Soon prospective parents Joanna Church and Sean Vaillancourt saw Deons new photo on the website and were attracted by the boy with bright, happy eyes (They had previously seen his old photo, but got no __12__ impression of him). Contact was made, and he was __13__ their home. Now Church and Vaillancourt have become Deon’s parents. The __14__ was a godsend (天赐之物) to Deon. He had been in and out of various foster homes since the age of 5, and was losing __15__. At age 18, children no longer qualify for foster care and must begin to __16__ themselves. This is a bitter reality for a child at age 16, __17__ one who has never really found __18__ from a home. |