A
Christmas was a quiet affair when I was growing up. There were just my parents and 1 . I wished that someday I’d 2 and have six children, and at 3 my house would be full of 4 and love.
I found the 5 who shared my dream, but we had not 6 the possibility of infertility (生育). So we asked for adoption and, within a year, he arrived. We called him our Christmas boy because he came to us during that season of joy, 7 he was just six days old. The nature 8 us again. Within two years we 9 two biological children to the family—not as many as we had hoped for, 10 compared with 11 childhood, three made an entirely 12 crowd.
As our Christmas boy grew, he made it clear that only he had the special skill to select and decorate the Christmas 13 each year. He started his Christmas gift list 14 before we’d finished the Thanksgiving turkey. He encouraged us to sing songs, using our froglike 15 comparing with his musical gift of perfect voice.
Our friends thought that adopted children were not the same and they were 16 . Our Christmas boy brought 17 into our lives with his good cheer, his wit. He made us look and act better than we were.
Then on his 26th Christmas, he left us as 18 as he had come. He was killed in a car accident on an icy Denver street, on his way home to his young wife and daughter. But first he had 19 by our home to decorate our tree, as usual. His father and I sold our home, where memories clung to every room. We moved to California, leaving 20 our friends and church.
1. A. my friendsB. my brothersC. my childrenD. me
2. A. likeB. marryC. betterD. love
3. A. nightB. New YearC. ChristmasD. home
4. A. energyB. peopleC. childrenD. hope
5. A. womanB. manC. wifeD. son
6. A. plannedB. wantedC. expectedD. imagined
7. A. afterB. beforeC. whenD. until
8. A. disappointedB. surprised C. interestedD. encouraged
9. A. broughtB. tookC. hopedD. added
10. A. soB. becauseC. butD. while
11. A. quietB. noisyC. happyD. exciting
12. A. satisfactoryB. great C. smallD. necessary
13. A. houseB. card C. giftD. tree
14. A. everB. stillC. evenD. yet
15. A. soundsB. songsC. noisesD. voices
16. A. rightB. sillyC. kindD. clever
17. A. colorB. hopeC. loveD. dream
18. A. earlyB. late C. unexpectedlyD. happily
19. A. stoppedB. goneC. passedD. entered
20. A. behindB. forC. awayD. out
参考答案.DBCAB CCBAC AADCD AACAAWe may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears.
36 , for example, the neatly-dressed woman I 37
to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter
38 the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On
39
days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime
40
out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.
41
, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I
42
all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how
43
I expected to see her each morning. You might say I
44
her.
“Did she have an accident? Something
45 ?” I thought to myself about her
46
.
Now that she was gone, I felt I had
47
her. I began to realize that part of our
48
life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar 49 : the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who
50
walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are
51
markers in our lives. They add weight to our
52
of place and belonging.
Think about it.
53
, while walking to work, we mark where we are by
54
a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though
55
, person?
36. A. Make
B. Take
C. Give
D. Have
37. A. happened
B. wanted
C. used
D. tried
38. A. what
B. how
C. which
D. when
39. A. sunny
B. rainy
C. cloudy
D. snowy
40. A. took
B. brought
C. carried
D. turned
41. A. Clearly
B. Particularly
C. Luckily
D. Especially
42. A. believed
B. expressed
C. remembered
D. wondered
43. A. long
B. often
C. soon
D. much
44. A. respected
B. missed
C. praised
D. admired
45. A. better
B. worse
C. more
D. less
46. A. disappearance
B. appearance
C. misfortune
D. fortune
47. A. forgotten
B. lost
C. known
D. hurt
48. A. happy
B. enjoyable
C. frequent
D. daily
49. A. friends
B. strangers
C. tourists
D. guests
50. A. regularly
B. actually
C. hardly
D. probably
51. A. common
B. pleasant
C. important
D. faithful
52. A. choice
B. knowledge
C. decision
D. sense
53. A. Because
B. If
C. Although
D. However
54. A. keeping
B. changing
C. passing
D. mentioning
55. A. unnamed
B.unforgettable
C. unbelievable
D. unreal
【答案】36.B
37.C 38.A 39.D 40.B 41.A
42.C 43.D
44.B
45.B
46.A
47.C 48.D 49.B 50.A 51.C52.D
53.B 54.C
55.A
Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need 36
his father said. “But if you don’t work hard, no fortune will come.”
What made him sad was 37 his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You have no talent. You will never be a pianist. 38 a nine-year-old boy Lang Lang was badly 39. He decided that he didn’t want to be a
40 any more. For the next two weeks he didn’t touch the piano 41
his father didn’t
push, but waited.
Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to 42 some holiday songs. He didn’t to, hut as he placed his fingers on the piano key., he 43 that he could show others that he had talent__44__.That day he told his father 45
he had been waiting to hear--- that he wanted is study with a new teacher. 46
that point on, everything turned around.
He started 47 competitions(比赛). In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition, when it was 48 that Lang Lang had won, he was too 49 to hold back his tears. Soon 50
as clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever—he had to play on the world’s big
51
in 1997 Lang Lang 52 again, this time to Philadelphia, U. S. There he spent Two years practicing. And by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. After his 53 performance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, giga(特邀演出 ) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie hail started
54
Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots(发现) him, and lets him 55
36.A. exercise
B. fortune
C. knowledge
D. wealth
37.A. whether
B. why
C. when
D. that
38.A. Like
B. With
C. To
D. As
39.A. hurt
B. weakened
C. ruined
D frightened
40.A. singer
B pianist
C. Conductor
D. player
41.A. Hopefully
B. Patiently
C. Wisely
D. Painfully
42.A. play
B. sing
C. write
D. study
43.A. seemed
B . admitted
C. noticed
D. realized
44.A. in all
B. above all
C. after all
D. at all
45.A. that
B. what
C. which
D. when
46.A. From
B. At
C. Since
D. After
47.A. receiving
B. accepting
C. winning
D. beating
48. A. told
B. mentioned
C. announced
D. recognized
49. A. excited
B. encouraged
C. shocked
D. satisfied
50. A. this
B. it
C. that
D. what
51. A. conceits
B. tours
C. competitions
D. stages
52.A. started
B. left
C. moved
D. performed
53. A. successful
B. cheerful
C. respectful
D. meaningful
54. A. pulling
B. breaking
C. falling
D. pouring
55. A. brighten
B. shine
C. admire
D. develop
答案
36.B
37.D
38.D
39.A
40.B
41.C
42.A
43.D
44.C
45.B
46.A
47.C
48.C
49.A
50.B
51.D
52.C
53.A
54.D
55.B
C
I’ve always had strong opinions of how love should be expressed, but others had their own ways of showing care.
What I 1 most about visiting my boyfriend’s parents is the loud tick of the clock in the dining room as we 2 ate our meal. With so little conversation I was quick to 3 his family as cold. When we got into the 4 to go home, his father suddenly appeared. 5 , he began to wash his son’s windscreen. I could feel he is a caring man through the glass.
I learned another lesson about love a few years later. My father often 6 me early in the morning. “Buy Xerox. It’s a good sharp price,” he might say when I answered the phone. No pleasant 7 or inquiry about my life, just financial instructions. This manner of his 8 me and we often quarreled. But one day, I thought about my father’s success in business and realized that his concern for my financial security lay behind his 9 morning calls. The next time he called and told me to buy a stock, I 10 him.
When my social style has conflicted with that of my friends, I’ve often felt 11 . For example, I always return phone calls 12 and regularly contact with my friends. I expect the same from them. I had one friend who rarely called, answering my messages with short e-mails. I rushed to the 13 : She wasn’t a good friend! My anger 14 as the holidays approached. But then she came to a gathering I 15 and handed me a beautiful dress I had fallen in love with when we did some window-shopping the previous month. I was 16 at her thoughtfulness, and regretful for how I’d considered her to be 17 . Clearly I needed to change my expectations of friends.
Far too often, I ignored their 18 expressions, eagerly expecting them to do things in my 19 . Over the years, however, I’ve learned to 20 other persons’ love signs.
1. A. rememberB. enjoyC. valueD. admire
2. A. excitedlyB. nervouslyC. silentlyD. instantly
3. A. regardB. treatC. takeD. think
4. A. busB. trainC. carD. plane
5. A. PunctuallyB. CarefullyC. ProudlyD. Coldly
6. A. visitedB. interruptedC. warnedD. telephoned
7. A. greetingB. meetingC. apologyD. explanation
8. A. interestedB. angeredC. encouragedD. surprised
9. A. longB. shortC. warmD. polite
10. A. praisedB. rememberedC. blamedD. thanked
11. A. contentB. guilty C. curiousD. disappointed
12. A. in orderB. in turn C. without delayD. without difficulty
13. A. feelingB. suggestionC. judgementD. belief
14. A. disappearedB. grew C. helpedD. declined
15. A. openedB. refusedC. hostedD. invited
16. A. depressedB. upsetC. fascinatedD. shocked
17. A. uncaring B. dishonest C. unhappyD. uncooperative
18. A. uniqueB. commonC. pleasantD. familiar
19. A. opinionB. wayC. mindD. life
20. A. sendB. readC. giveD. express
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