语法填空训练(9)

One evening, I came across one of son’s papers with a failing grade. I almost started to yell his name   1   I suddenly remembered he was in bed asleep. It was his   2  (nine) year of school and his academic career seemed to be in ruins, so I was angry. _ 3  I put the paper aside and turned to the next one, at the top of which were written “My dad”. It was a poem about me,   4   included the time I had to leave work to take him to the hospital because he   5  (break) his finger. So careless was I   6   I had forgotten all about that.

He talked about how I wrestled with him in the evenings and a good many__7 things. That paper was suddenly not nearly as important _ 8   it had been a few minutes before. I don’t know if he planted the poem next to the failing grade to   9  (soft) the blow,but it worked. Instead of a severe lecture, I talked to him about the poem as well as the failed homework, and it began to make sense to me that I could include praise along   10   constructive criticism.

Keys:

1．when       2．ninth  3．But      4．which  5．had broken   

6．that    7．other    8．as    9．soften          10．with