InFloridaforThanksgiving,IwassurfingthechannelguideforC...

习题库
关注：2.74W次

问题详情：

In Florida for Thanksgiving, I was surfing the channel guide for CNN, hoping to find out whether a decision had been reached in the Michael Brown case (the case of a police officer who shot an unarmed teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014). I said, looking at the television screen, “I hope they 41 him.”

My mother’s tone pierced (刺破) the 42 . “Why, why would you hope for that?” I exhaled （吐气）, knowing I was about to have 43 uncomfortable

conversation with my mother, the retired 44 .

“He was unarmed, ma,” I said to her. “ 45 he was a kid.”

To her, even if only for a moment, I was just another asshole (混蛋) on the street.

I 46 it in her face, and it was terrible. She said 47 , “You don’t know the whole story, you haven’t seen the evidence. Whether you like it or not, cops are innocent 48 proven guilty too.” I stayed 49 as she continued. “And he wasn’t a kid, he was 50 . What if that was me facing Michael Brown? I wouldn’t have 51 a chance.”

My5′8〞mother couldn’t have 52 a 6′4〞man without a weapon. I

would want her to pull out her gun and fire until she came home to me because that’s my mom and it’s my job to get crazy when I think of her in 53 . Just like when I 54 the man who slapped her in face and knocked her to the ground, bile (胆汁)

rises in my throat.

This is my lived experience. I 55 in a household where my mother and stepfather wore guns and 56 . They always came home with 57 ; some we could hear, and some 58 in the kitchen. We gathered together at nigh t with my two younger sisters to watch TV as a family: “Rescue 911,” “America’s Most Wanted,” “Law & Order,” all the 90s cops shows. We watched “Picket Fences” until the one 59

where the cop killer got off, and my mother and I had our first uncomfortable conversation when I said he might be 60 . After that, we had to boycott（联合 *）the show.

A. forgive B. praise C. free D. accuse

A. soul B. air C. throat D. case

A. another B. any C. this D. that

A. cop B. justice C. housewife D. lawyer

A. But B. So C. And D. Yet

A. watched B. touched C. saw D. felt

A. naturally B. seriously C. mildly D. anxiously

A. if B. when C. though D. until

A. easy B. awake C. sleepy D. quiet

A. enormous B. typical C. energetic D. troublesome

A. made B. given C. missed D. stood

A. calmed down B. taken down C. let down D. fallen down