新型冠状病毒完形填空练习题及答案

1 . Amy is 11 years old and lives in a city. She _________ much of her time at her grandmother’s home during the pandemic (疫情). The house has a large _________ that Amy explored (探索) when she wasn’t doing schoolwork online.

One day, she saw her first four-leaf clover (四叶草) in the yard. “I was just walking, and I was so _________ because I know that they are not very common,” she said, “some people say they bring good luck.”

Amy then researched _________ causes clovers to grow that fourth leaf. It’s because of the plant’s genes. The plant’s genes tell the plant to grow three leaves. _________ sometimes the genes tell the plant to grow four leaves. _________, a 2017 study found that just one in 5,000 clovers has four leaves.

Amy has learned that four-leaf clovers grow _________ groups. “Then I wanted to find more of them,” she said. Amy began searching for more four-leaf clovers in the yard and it _________ her new hobby. By the summer of the next year, she had _________ more than 500 of them.

Her parents felt happy that Amy found a way to lower stress that many children were ____________ during the pandemic. Her grandmother was also ____________ that Amy went outdoors and explored nature. “It’s a good thing that a city child was taking a(n) ____________ in nature.”

For her part, Amy said she has a way of ____________ the loneliness she felt during the pandemic. “It gave me something to do because I didn’t have the ____________ of being sad,” she said. “I got ____________,” she added, “and this was wonderful because they were right in my backyard.”