Directions:
After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.The days of elderly women cooking huge meals on holidays and knitting themselves slowly into senior life 【小题1】 (be) gone. Enter the Red Hat Society -- a group dedicated to the new concept that old ladies should have fun.
“My grandmothers did 【小题2】 but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that,” said Emily Cornette, founder of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society. The group has chapters in all 50 U.S. states and 25 countries.
While men have long spent their retirement fishing, women always seem to become invisible as they 【小题3】(age). But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers, and the same people who rejected their parents’ way of being young are now making a new way of growing old.
With a bit of disposable income and 【小题4】(good) health compared with the past generation for most elderly into the mix, the Red Hat Society starts to look almost inevitable.
“This is something just for me,” Cornette said. She kept an eagle eye out for guests with empty cups or plates that needed 【小题5】(refill). "There aren’t any rules, really. We are doing 【小题6】can’t be imagined by old-time women. We are just looking for fun.”
According to its founder Cooper, she 【小题7】(inspire) when she saw a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn’t go.”
Cooper gave her friend a copy of the poem, along with a red hat, 【小题8】 served as the symbol of the organization. Soon other women wanted red hats, and they 【小题9】(attract) thousands of participants since then.
“The point of this is that we women could have fun for ourselves instead of doing things just for others,”Cooper said in a telephone interview. “We are forming a little society where we 【小题10】 feel relaxed and delighted along with our peers.”
