专业八级改错练习 第115期

A first pregnancy can be both anxious and exciting__1__
time for a woman. Having never given birth
before, the expected mother is usually filled with__2_
worries. She regularly thinks her unborn child has
stopped moving. At another times, she wonders if __3_
her baby will be normal, if it will be deformed and __4_
retarded, and, most frightening to her, if it will be
stillborn. Because she hates thinking __5_
these possible misfortunes, she cannot__6_
help it. However, she is usually unable to comfort__7_
herself with her excitement. She constantly wonders how__8_
her child will be like, what color of hair
and eyes it will have, when it will arrive. These __9_
feelings are to be expected of the first-time mother; __10
this is perhaps the most anxious and exciting period
of her life to date.