初一英语春季班第六讲

第六讲：Module 6-7

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My father couldn’t read and write. He started school in the first grade, where the punishment for a wrong answer was ten ruler beats on a hand. For some reason, right shapes and letters just did not fall into his six-year-old mind. His father took him out of ___1___ after several months.

Years later, his wife, with her fourth-grade ___2___, would try to teach him to read. And later I would hold his big hand and help him to copy the letters of his name. He accepted unwillingly, but soon grew ___3___ and would say that he had had enough.

One night, when he thought no one saw, he ___4___ with my second grade reader and worked on the words until they became too difficult. He pressed his head into the ___5___ and cried. After that, nothing could bring him to sit with pen and paper.

From the farm to road building and later to factory work, his hands served him well. His energetic interest and ability brought ___6___ to become a line boss.

After Mother died years later, he insisted on staying in the small house with the garden and a few farm animals ___7___. His health began to fail, and he was in and out of the hospital.

My last memory of Dad was watching him walk across the hillside with my two children. Three weeks ___8___ my family flew back to our own home, Dad was dead because of a heart attack.

I returned for the funeral. Doctor Green told me Dad had been given a bottle of pills. Yet it had not been found on Dad’s person. Doctor Green felt that a pill might have kept him ___9___ long enough to call for help.

In Dad’s garden I stopped to pass my fingers in the earth where he had reached the end of his life. My hand came to rest on a half-buried stone. I lifted it and noticed ___10___ it the hit, yet unbroken bottle that had been beaten into the soft earth.

When I saw the bottle, the scene of Dad ___11___ to remove the cap and in desperation breaking it with the stone flashed before my eyes. With great sorrow and deep pain I knew why those big hands had lost in their fight with ___12___. For there, printed on the cap, were the words: ―Child-proof cap --- Push down and twist to unlock.‖

1. A. school B. class C. farm D. home

2. A. knowledge B. memory C. experience D. education

3. A. bored B. nervous C. worried D. angry

4. A. ran away B. stole away C. moved away D. walked away

5. A. pages B. books C. copies D. papers

6. A. a success B. a decision C. an opinion D. an offer

7. A. in front B. far away C. all around D. close by

8. A. when B. after C. until D. before

9. A. alive B. awake C. asleep D. active

10. A. behind B. below C. under D. beside

11. A. expecting B. wanting C. trying D. deciding

12. A. the bottle B. the cap C. death D. illness