1. (2019九上·郑州期中) 从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。

mean    children    up    Peggy    ask    while    bear    she    second    happy

Peggy is a lovely girl, she is only ten but she likes reading and thinking. One evening, while mom was preparing dinner, Peggy came into the kitchen and , "Mom, what is puberty (青春期)?"

When mom heard the question,  stopped cooking and looked at her daughter in surprise. She wasn't sure how to answer the question. Mom thought for a few  and then she said to Peggy kindly, "Peggy, why not look the word  in the dictionary? After that, we can talk about it, OK?"

Peggy agreed and left the kitchen . Half an hour later, she returned with a thick dictionary in her hand. Her mom asked her what the dictionary said.

"Puberty ," answered Peggy, "the earliest age at which a girl is able to bear ."

"What do you think of that?" her mom asked.

"I'm not sure really," Peggy replied. "I have always been able to  children. It's adults who I can't bear at all."

In English, the word "bear" can have several meanings. in the dictionary, "bear" means "to give birth to a child". But clearly, Peggy was thinking about its other meaning — to endure (忍受) something.