程佳雯

難詞探意

elementary /？謣el？奘？謖mentri/ adj. 初級(jí)的;基礎(chǔ)的

When the students at Bobby G. Lester Elementary School in Jacksonville， Arkansas， were asked to dress as their 1. __________ person for a day， 5？鄄year？鄄old Easton Blocker had just one person in mind： his school？蒺s security officer， Jeffery Cross.

The minute Easton Blocker met Cross， he has always had a fascination with Officer Cross. So Easton？蒺s mom， Lauryn helped her son get his 2. __________（present/costume） ready for the special day at school. That 3. __________is probably going to stick with him forever because it means a lot to him. Each time he put on the shirt，he would feel that Cross was with him and would keep him 4.__________ from the bad guys. When asked why he wanted to dress like Cross， Easton would have a simple answer： “He keeps me safe every day.” Therefore， the boy called Cross his hero and best friend and it was natural of him to wear a yellow “security” shirt and honor Cross on “Dress as Your Favorite Person Day”.

On the morning of “Dress as Your Favorite Person Day”， Easton woke up before his alarm

5.________（went out/went off）. He was excited to show up to school as Cross. When he arrived at school， teachers took a photo of Easton and Cross side？鄄by？鄄side and posted it on Facebook—and the pair got a lot of attention.

This is the first year armed officers are in Jacksonville North Pulaski School District and it is the first district in the state to have one in every school. The kids had a lot of 6. __________ for their new officer at the beginning of the school year. They had questions about why the cop was armed. And Cross just told them that he was armed to protect them from someone bad who would come and hurt them. That stuck with Easton.

Seeing Easton dress like him meant a lot to Cross. “It makes me appreciate my job more，” he said.

Fill in each blank with only one word according to the context.

Sentence for writing

When asked why he wanted to dress like Cross， Easton would have a simple answer：“He keeps me safe every day.”

【信息提取】“when+過(guò)去分詞/現(xiàn)在分詞”構(gòu)成的是一個(gè)省略句，此時(shí)，主從句主語(yǔ)一致，省略了從句的主語(yǔ)和be。

【句式仿寫】當(dāng)被老師表?yè)P(yáng)時(shí)，杰克把他中文的進(jìn)步歸功于同學(xué)們的幫助。