A group of high school and college students from Connecticut have come together to build something extraordinary: fully-functioning electric carts (电动车) for families who may be unable to afford adaptive wheelchairs. They are part of the local “Go Baby Go”, a(n) ________ that helps kids with ________ receive access to self-governed mobility.
“What this is designed to do is maybe for an hour every day let the kid take ________ of their own mobility,” Connor Boman, one of the students who ________ during the build said.
Go Baby Go volunteers learn how to build special electric cart shaped like cars. Local kids in need are then given the carts ________ for each build being usually funded entirely by voluntary ________. The Go Baby Go in Connecticut finished building custom carts for seven-year-old Kelicia and eight-year-old Mosiah. The day the students completed the carts, Kelicia and Mosiah’s families went to New Britain High School to ________ them out for the first time. When each child got into their brand new cart, their faces ________— it’s the single moment the builders look forward to the most.
Mosiah was shaking his head in ________ at first that he was driving, but he got the hang of it very quickly. He made driving the red jeep look so enjoyable that his older brother wanted to try it out. The students who built the cart let him have a try, ________ the cart was specially made for Mosiah, who is unable to walk on his own.
It took some ________ for the other cart recipient, Kelicia, to get used to the driving, but once she did, she couldn’t stop — and her mom, Kechisa Mathis, couldn’t stop ________. As she ran alongside her daughter, someone was considerate to run up to Mathis with a big box of ________. Onlookers laughed kindly as Mathis kept on ________ for Kelicia through her tears.
They may look like cool, red electric cars, but they’re much more than that — they give disabled kids a way to move around ________ with a huge smile on their face.
【小题1】A.committee | B.academy | C.university | D.organization |
【小题2】A.misfortunes | B.disabilities | C.mercies | D.solutions |
【小题3】A.care | B.account | C.control | D.hold |
【小题4】A.prepared | B.volunteered | C.purchased | D.cooperated |
【小题5】A.on time | B.in turn | C.for free | D.for sure |
【小题6】A.governments | B.donations | C.regions | D.residents |
【小题7】A.test | B.figure | C.carry | D.work |
【小题8】A.got over | B.broke down | C.lit up | D.calmed down |
【小题9】A.demand | B.sight | C.protest | D.disbelief |
【小题10】A.as though | B.even though | C.in spite of | D.in the meantime |
【小题11】A.effort | B.energy | C.methods | D.strategies |
【小题12】A.running | B.laughing | C.crying | D.sighing |
【小题13】A.instruments | B.books | C.medals | D.tissues |
【小题14】A.cheering | B.applying | C.searching | D.praying |
【小题15】A.luckily | B.firmly | C.skillfully | D.independently |