Part IV Cloze（10%）

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Walking through the woods alone can be a frightening prospect for a kid, but not for 7-year-old Matthew of Portland, Oregon. He doesn't have a backyard to 56 in, so the woods behind his house serve the same 57. He spends hours out there swinging on a swing, 58 across the valley to a friend's house, and 59 garden knives to cut a path. He lays 60 sticks to form a bridge across the small stream. And he does all of this alone.

Matthew's mom, Laura Randall, wants her son to gain skills and confidence that only 61 with doing things alone. But she didn't just 62 her 7-year-old outside the door with garden tools one day. They worked up to it gradually with what Randall calls experiments in independence.

“Just those moments, increasingly longer moments, where he can choose to be 63 his own, ”Randall explains. Randall knows this isn't the 64 for today's parenting style. Gone are the days 65 kids ride their bikes alone until the streetlights come on.

Randall has met people who think she's a 66 parent. Once, an off-duty police officer started yelling at her when she left Matthew alone in the car 67 a few minutes while she ran into a shop.

Randall knows that parents in several states have been arrested for 68 their kids walk to the park alone, or even 69 them to walk to school. And so she was a bit 70 about what this man might do.

Anyway, they talked it out, and the man walked 71 . Randall felt confident about 72 her parenting, partly 73 she had connected with a group 74 Free Range Kids. This group 75 childhood independence, and gives families the information they need to push back against a culture of over protection.

56.A. swim B. play C. move D. live

57.A. road B. path C. target D. purpose

58.A. walking B. arriving C. reaching D. speaking

59.A. use B. enjoy C. using D. enjoying

60.A. out B. away C. down D. off

61.A. put B. come C. react D. pay

62.A. forbid B. order C. treat D. leave

63.A. at B. in C. with D. on

64.A. standard B. freedom C. relation D. reflection

65.A. when B. which C. where D. what

66.A. kind B. good C. bad D. sick

67.A with B. for C. on D. at

68.A. accompanying B. asking C. encouraging D. letting

69.A. forbid B. allow C. forbidding D. allowing

70.A. excited B. moved C. worried D. pleased

71.A. away B. across C. up D. out

72.A. persuading B. defending C. arguing D. opening

73.A. although B. before C. because D. until

74.A. describe B. call C. described D. called

75.A. responds B. opposes C. provides D. promotes