All her life,my mother wanted busy children.I...

All her life,my mother wanted busy children.It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’s house,leave a half-written letter on the dining room table,a magazine open on the chair,and turn around to find that my mother had “put it back where it belonged,”as she explained.

My wife,one of her first visits to my mother’s house,placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink.When she returned,she found the packet had been removed.Confused(疑惑的),she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits,only to return to find that her drink had disappeared.Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks,so as not to make water rings on the end tables.Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family.We were all inclined to(有……的倾向) forgetfulness,and it was common for one of us,upon returning from the bathroom,to find that every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly.“Do you remember what I was doing?”was a question frequently asked,but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows,and my brother does the cleaning in his house,perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet.I try not to think about it too much,but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

We have all become busy persons.

1.Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

A.She enjoyed removing others’ drinks.

B.She became more and more forgetful.

C.She preferred to do everything by herself.

D.She wanted to keep her house in good order.

2.My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother’s house because _______.

A.she had already finished them

B.my mother had taken them away

C.she forgot where she had left them

D.someone in my family was holding them

3.The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.

A.is happy to clean windows

B.loves to clean used windows

C.is fond of clean used windows

D.likes clean windows as my mother did

4.This passage mainly tells us that _______.

A.my mother often made us confused

B.my family members had a poor memory

C.my mother helped us to form a good habit

D.my wife was surprised when she visited my mother

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All her life,my mother wanted busy children.It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’s house,leave a half-written letter on the dining room table,a magazine open on the chair,and turn around to find that my mother had “put it back where it belonged,”as she explained.

My wife,one of her first visits to my mother’s house,placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink.When she returned,she found the packet had been removed.Confused(疑惑的),she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits,only to return to find that her drink had disappeared.Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks,so as not to make water rings on the end tables.Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family.We were all inclined to(有……的倾向) forgetfulness,and it was common for one of us,upon returning from the bathroom,to find that every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly.“Do you remember what I was doing?”was a question frequently asked,but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows,and my brother does the cleaning in his house,perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet.I try not to think about it too much,but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

We have all become busy persons.

1.Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

2.My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother’s house because _______.

3.The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.

4.This passage mainly tells us that _______.

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All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should be clean and tidy all the time.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’s house, leave a half-written letter on the dinning room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had “ put it back where it belonged,” as she explained.

My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother’s house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused , she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everybody in my family held onto their drinks so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. It was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find that every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly.

Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

We have all become busy persons.

1.Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

A. She enjoyed removing others’ drinks.

B. She became more and more forgetful.

C. She preferred to do everything by herself.

D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.

2.My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother’s house because ________.

A. she had already finished them.

B. my mother had taken them away.

C. she forgot where she had left them.

D. someone in my family was holding them.

3.The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister ________.

A. is happy to clean windows.               B. loves to clean used windows.

C. has fallen in love with used windows.    D. likes to clean windows as my mother did.

4.This text mainly tells us that ________.

A. my mother often made us confused.

B. my family members had poor memories.

C. my mother helped us to form a good habit.

D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother.

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第三部分 阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从题后所给的A、B、C、D四个答案中选出最佳选项。

All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother's house, leave a half-written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged." as she explained.

My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother's house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused, she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有...的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a second-hand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

56. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

A. She enjoyed removing other's drinks.

B. She became more and more forgetful.

C. She preferred to do everything by herself.

D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.

57. My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother's house because _______.

A. she had already finished them                       B. my mother had taken them away

C. she forgot where she had left them             D. someone in my family was holding them

58. The underlined part to the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.

A. is happy to clean windows                              B. loves to clean used windows

C. is fond of clean used windows                       D. likes clean windows as my mother did

59. This passage mainly tells us that _______.

A. my mother often made us confused

B. my family members had a poor memory

C. my mother helped us to form a good habit

D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother

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My 83-year-old mother was very ill and I had to put my life on hold to look after her. I ______ a bowl when she felt sick, and lit fires to keep her ______. I cooked and persuaded her to take a few______.

It’s hard to take care of a dying parent, whoever you are. It was ______ hard for me because I am a doctor myself. I couldn’t help looking at her in two different ways. The medical ______ saw the body with the coldness that medicine______. But the ______ saw the woman who had given birth to me, sent me off to college and had been a ______ presence in my life for over half a century. ______, my mother didn’t appreciate how hard it was for me to ______ her. I remember an exchange between her and the nurse who came to see her once a week: “You could get some more help with care.” “Oh, I don’t think I need that,” Mom said. Mom didn’t understand that the ______ would have taken some of the burden off me.

None of the treatments her doctors gave her ______. She refused painkillers for a long time, but finally the pain ______ her. When she accepted the painkillers, she accepted the ______ that she would die.

While living, being and dying with Mom I ______ something precious dawning. We became closer. We ______ so many stories from our past that it was ______ our memories had become one. In the past our relationship had been difficult. We had often ______. But when the end came, both of us ______ accepted that we looked at the world in different ways. We were daughter and mother and we loved each other. That was all that ______.

1.A.rushed for B.hoped for C.longed for D.fought for

2.A.cold B.warm C.living D.mild

3.A.bites B.mouths C.stomachs D.hands

4.A.necessarily B.exactly C.virtually D.especially

5.A.amateur B.trainer C.professional D.leader

6.A.requested B.required C.helped D.promised

7.A.son B.doctor C.friend D.daughter

8.A.ever B.rare C.occasional D.constant

9.A.Also B.Instead C.Therefore D.Still

10.A.contribute to B.care about C.attend to D.concern about

11.A.medicine B.care C.help D.illness

12.A.stopped B.worked C.healed D.faded

13.A.convinced B.advised C.commanded D.covered

14.A.wish B.lie C.fact D.future

15.A.met B.witnessed C.wished D.left

16.A.experienced B.expected C.shared D.studied

17.A.as if B.even if C.in that D.now that

18.A.cried B.gathered C.laughed D.argued

19.A.complicatedly B.simply C.hardly D.generally

20.A.existed B.came C.called D.mattered

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My daughter was reading her English. composition aloud. It was titled My Mother. All of a sudden, she _____and walked to the kitchen where I was busy preparing for tea.

“Mom, what does ‘beautiful’ _____?” she asked,

“‘Beautiful’ is someone or something that is very _____to look at,” I explained.

“You mean like all those actresses you see on TV?” she said.

“That’s right ,” I said, hoping to end the _____.

“Are you, beautiful?”. She asked rather _____.

What was one to answer? She was _____my looks with those of some film stars and _____ it was I who treated beauty as good _____.

Suddenly I hit upon an idea to solve her _____. “Why don’t you ask Dad?”

As soon as my _____reached home and had his evening coffee, I saw her _____to her dad, “I have a doubt,” She said,

“What is it, my dear?” my husband asked.

I couldn’t _____my curiosity and I listened to the father-daughter _____.

“Dad, is Mom beautiful?”

“Of course she is. Don’t you think so?”

Well…She began rather doubtfully.

“Let me show you our wedding _____. See here. Isn’t she the most beautiful person in the world”

“See. your mom was _____when she said beautiful is just looking good. When you _____someone, the person becomes beautiful in your eyes.”

My daughter was _____for a while. Then a smile _____climbed into her face as she _____ “Mom. is beautiful…Dad is beautiful because I love you both…”

I was _____to have found someone who loved me enough to think of me as the most beautiful person in the world.

1.A. fell　　 B. bent　　 C. stopped　　 D. awoke

2.A. reward　　 B. mean　　 C. change　　 D. face

3.A. attractive　　 B. concerned　　 C. excited　　 D. particular

4.A. conflict　　 B. model　　 C. argument　　 D. discussion

5.A. doubtfully　　 B. coldly　　 C. carelessly　　 D. impatiently

6.A. mixing　　 B. comparing　　 C. sharing　　 D. charging

7.A. in addition　　 B. above all　　 C. after all　　 D. in turn

8.A. data　　 B. conditions　　 C. majors　　 D. looks

9.A. confusion　　 B. anxiety　　 C. sorrow　　 D. bitterness

10.A. brother　　 B. husband　　 C. cousin　　 D. nephew

11.A. walk　　 B. cycle　　 C. rush　　 D. refer

12.A. accept　　 B. control　　 C. satisfy　　 D. destroy

13.A. conversation　　 B. advice　　 C. laugh　　 D. quarrel

14.A. dinner　　 B. celebration　　 C. album　　 D. church

15.A. right　　 B. wrong　　 C. silly　　 D. pleased

16.A. love　　 B. praise　　 C. hug　　 D. bless

17.A. silent　　 B. active　　 C. satisfied　　 D. grateful

18.A. merely　　 B. slowly　　 C. hardly　　 D. eagerly

19.A. finished　　 B. admitted　　 C. chanted　　 D. heard

20.A. common　　 B. serious　　 C. cautious　　 D. lucky

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My mother _____ all the cleaning for my family, but recently she has been too busy teaching to do it.

A. will do　　　　　　     B. is doing　　　　　　　　     C. does　　　　　　　　　　　     D. had done

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My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.

“Of course you can be a prodigy, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best at anything.” We didn’t immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films. My mother would poke my arm and say, “Ni kan” — You watch. And I would see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round O while saying, “Oh my goodness.”

Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to a beauty training school and put me in the hands of a student who could barely hold the scissors without shaking. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. My mother dragged me off to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair.

“You look like Negro Chinese,” she complained, as if I had done this on purpose.

In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.

In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.

But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And then you’ll always be nothing.”

Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.

The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.

“What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.

All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown. “Nairobi!” I guessed, saying the most foreign word I could think of. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.

The tests got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London.

And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror and when I saw only my face staring back—and that it would always be this ordinary face—I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.

And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.

1.The underlined word “prodigy” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.

A.talent B.professor C.leader D.superstar

2.Why did the mother and the girl watch Shirley’s old movies on TV?

A.Because the mother was a fan of Shirley Temple.

B.Because Shirley Temple’s hairstyle was popular among children.

C.Because the girl resembled Shirley Temple in appearance.

D.Because the mother wanted her daughter to be a Chinese Shirley Temple.

3.How did the girl feel about the tests she did every night?

A.She felt confident and finished it smoothly.

B.She got through the tests successfully, but painfully.

C.She failed the tests and began to lose confidence.

D.She eventually sadly found herself ordinary and ugly.

4.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 13 mean?

A.The mother was not sure about the answer and wanted to confirm it.

B.The mother expected her daughter to know the right answer.

C.The answers were more than one and the mother checked them.

D.The mother was so disappointed as to give up her daughter.

5.What might happen after the last paragraph?

A.The girl might try her best to become famous and successful.

B.The girl might follow her heart and do what she really likes.

C.The girl might do whatever her mother asks and becomes a different image.

D.The mother might change her attitude and listen to her daughter’s words.

6.Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

A.Being Myself or Not B.Educational Failure

C.Difficult American Childhood D.Mother’s Experience

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My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.

“Of course you can be a prodigy, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best at anything.” We didn’t immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films. My mother would poke my arm and say, “Ni kan” — You watch. And I would see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round O while saying, “Oh my goodness.”

Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to a beauty training school and put me in the hands of a student who could barely hold the scissors without shaking. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. My mother dragged me off to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair.

“You look like Negro Chinese,” she complained, as if I had done this on purpose.

In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.

In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.

But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And then you’ll always be nothing.”

Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.

The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.

“What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.

All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown. “Nairobi!” I guessed, saying the most foreign word I could think of. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.

The tests got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London.

And after seeing my mother’s disappointed face once again, something inside of me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror and when I saw only my face staring back—and that it would always be this ordinary face—I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.

And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.

1.The underlined word “prodigy” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.

A. talent　　 B. professor　　 C. leader　　 D. superstar

2.Why did the mother and the girl watch Shirley’s old movies on TV?

A. Because the mother was a fan of Shirley Temple.

B. Because Shirley Temple’s hairstyle was popular among children.

C. Because the girl resembled Shirley Temple in appearance.

D. Because the mother wanted her daughter to be a Chinese Shirley Temple.

3.How did the girl feel about the tests she did every night?

A. She felt confident and finished it smoothly.

B. She got through the tests successfully, but painfully.

C. She failed the tests and began to lose confidence.

D. She eventually sadly found herself ordinary and ugly.

4.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 13 mean?

A. The mother was not sure about the answer and wanted to confirm it.

B. The mother expected her daughter to know the right answer.

C. The answers were more than one and the mother checked them.

D. The mother was so disappointed as to give up her daughter.

5.What might happen after the last paragraph?

A. The girl might try her best to become famous and successful.

B. The girl might follow her heart and do what she really likes.

C. The girl might do whatever her mother asks and becomes a different image.

D. The mother might change her attitude and listen to her daughter’s words.

6.Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

A. Being Myself or Not　　 B. Educational Failure

C. Difficult American Childhood　　 D. Mother’s Experience

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It was Mother’s Day. I was so busy with my work that I couldn’t _______back home. When I passed by a_______shop, an _______ came to my mind, “I’ll send Mum some roses.”

While I was _______ my flowers, a young man went inside. “How many roses can I get_______　 only five dollars, Madam?” he asked. The assistant was trying to tell him roses were as_______ as forty dollars a dozen. Maybe he would be happy with carnations (康乃馨). “No, I _______ have red roses,” he said, “my mum was_______ill last year and I didn’t spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special, roses, as rose is her_______.”

After hearing it, I said I would pay ________ of the money for the young man. ________ by both of us, the assistant said, “Well, lovely young men, thirty dollars a dozen, only for you.” Taking the roses, the young man almost jumped into the ________ and ran out of the shop. It was________ worth twenty-five dollars I paid to see the exciting ________. Then I paid for my dozen of roses and told the assistant to________ them to my mother.

As I walked out, I felt ________. Suddenly I saw the young man crossing the street and going into a park. But soon I ________ it was not a park________ a cemetery(墓地). Crying, the young man carefully ________ the roses, “Mum, why didn’t I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help me find my mum and tell her I love her.”

Seeing this, I turned and quickly walked to the________.I would take the flowers home myself.

1.A.come B.go C.return D.turn

2.A.flower B.clothing C.rose D.jewellery

3.A.fact B.idea C.word D.picture

4.A.selling B.getting C.picking D.showing

5.A.in B.on C.at D.for

6.A.much B.expensive C.cheap D.high

7.A.have to B.might C.should D.can

8.A.a bit B.hardly C.nearly D.badly

9.A.flower B.dream C.favorite D.gift

10.A.the rest B.some C.all D.much

11.A.Surprised B.Moved C.Excited D.Pleased

12.A.roses B.street C.assistant D.air

13.A.only B.not C.well D.very

14.A.incident B.time C.scenery D.moment

15.A.send B.offer C.present D.give

16.A.nice B.amazed C.shameful D.relaxed

17.A.understood B.learned C.realized D.was told

18.A.and B.or C.but D.nor

19.A.grew B.lay C.buried D.laid

20.A.man B.shop C.street D.cemetery

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