Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank:
In 1952 Mother Terera (1)_______ the first Home for the Dying in Calcutta. Over some years, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands, serving "the poorest of (2)________ poor" in 450 centers around the world. Mother Teresa created many homes for the dying and the unwanted from Calcutta to New York. She was one of the first to establish homes for AIDS (3)________. For more than 45 years, Mother Teresa comforted the poor,the dying, and the unwanted around the world.
In 1979, Mother Teresa (4)________ awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for work
undertaken in the struggle to (5)________ poverty and distress, (46) also constitute a (7)_______ to peace." She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to
laureates, and gave $6,000 to the poor in Calcutta, claiming the money would permit
her (8)_________ hundreds of needy for a year. When Mother Teresa received the prize,
she was asked, "What can we do to promote world (9)_________ ?" Her answer was
simple: "Go home and love your family." In the same year, she was also awarded the
Balzan Prize for promoting peace and brotherhood (10)_________ the nations.
| 1. A. opened |
B. installed |
C. turned |
D. raised |
| 2. A. a |
B. an |
C. the |
D. Ø |
| 3. A. enjoyers |
B. deservers |
C. awarders |
D. patients |
| 4. A. is |
B. was |
C. has been |
D. had been |
| 5. A overcome |
B. support |
C. protest |
D. protect |
| 6. A. that |
B. which |
C. who |
D. whose |
| 7. A. threat |
B. threaten |
C. threatened |
D. threatening |
| 8. A. feed |
B. to feed |
C. fed |
D. feeding |
| 9. A. peaceful |
B. peaceable |
C. peacefully |
D. peace |
| 10. A. in |
B. between |
C. among |
D. with |
