完形填空：共20题 每题2分 共40分My three-year-old granddau...

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My three-year-old granddaughter fell from the bicycle before I could catch her. Emily 　　 there for a moment, calculating her chances of survival. 　　 the chances were in her favor, she sat up with a 　　 that quickly turned into tears when she saw the blood on her knee. I took her in my arms, saying words of 　　 as I carried her into the house to deal with her hurt.

With much comfort, she let me wash and put ointment (药膏) on her 　　 .

I kissed her cheek.“All 　　 now, sweetie？”

“No, Grandma, you haven't said the Mommy 　　 ，” she said.

I 　　 ran a list of Mommy words through my mind：Please？Thank you？I love you?

“You know, Grandma. Mommy 　　 them to make me all better.”Emily took a deep breath and recited, “A little kiss, a little hug, I give you these, with all my love.”

My mind raced and I 　　 ．It was the same little song that I had said to my 　　 ，my mother to me，and her mother to her. My grandmother died when my mother was eight. There had been nothing left but her dear 　　 ．When she became a mother herself, she 　　 the gentle love of her mother and the remembered comfort of the “Mommy words” that made all 　　 things go away and only the good remain. Hearing it now, I realized that though I had never met my grandmother, I did 　　 her. We were mothers—we were 　　 at the heart.

It was 　　 my grandmother had written her legacy (遗产) of love on the hearts of four 　　 of mothers. I heard my grandmother's, my mother's, my daughter's, my granddaughter's, and my own voice 　　 through time.

“Don't 　　 ， Grandma. I am all better，” Emily said, wiping the tears from my face. We kissed and hugged, and said the Mommy words to each other.

1.A.lay 　　　　 B.sat C.stood D.slept

2.A.Doubting　 B.Wishing C.Proving D.Figuring

3.A.joke 　　　 B.reply C.gesture D.smile

4.A.praise　　 B.comfort C.thankfulness D.encouragement

5.A.foot 　　　 B.arm C.knee D.cheek

6.A.warmer　　 B.better C.nicer D.safer

7.A.words　　 B.accents C.dialogues D.speeches

8.A.directly　　 B.cautiously C.quickly D.eagerly

9.A.says 　　　 B.keeps C.announces D.teaches

10.A.failed　　 B.remembered C.refused D. laughed

11.A.friends　　 B.parents C.children D.neighbors

12.A.stories　　　 B.books C.gifts D.memorie

13.A.passed on　 B.took over C.gave up D.showed off

14.A.hard　　　　 B.soft C.old D.bad

15.A.fear 　　　　 B.know C.forget D.believe

16.A.disappointed B.surprised C.worried D.connected

17.A.because　　 B.since C.as though D.not until

18.A.groups　　 B.generations C.types D.pairs

19.A.mixing　　 B.rising C.shouting D.shaking

20.A.stop　　　　 B.move C.cry D.wait

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Last year, when our three-year-old great-granddaughter Kylie was taken to see Santa Claus, she made sure to give him her wish list of toys. A week later, she ran into a different Santa in a mall. He stopped to ask what she wanted for Christmas. Kylie was surprised and let him know: “If you can’t remember what I told you last week, how are you going to remember on Christmas Eve?!”

Mary Paul, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

As my son Mike and I drove to the mall, we passed a Salvation Army Santa ringing his bell. “Mike,” I said, “there’s Santa!” He shook his head. “That’s just some guy in a Santa suit,” he said. It saddened me to think that maybe my son no longer believed in Santa, and we drove the rest of the way in silence. At the mall, we spotted another Santa greeting young believers. Suddenly, Mike took off toward him. Turning back to me, he shouted. “Now, there’s the real Santa!”

Michael E. Fahey, Huntley, Illinois

We immigrated to America from China when I was six. Because I was shy and didn’t speak English, I had few friends. My days were spent at home with my brother. Sometimes we’d help our neighbor Mr. Mueller pull weeds. One Christmas Day, there was a knock at the door. Grandma opened it, and there stood a big fellow in red with a snow-white beard, laughing, “Ho, ho, ho!” He handed out presents and made us laugh. I had so much fun. It was years later when I learned that our special Santa was our neighbor Mr. Mueller.

Joanne Tang, Litchfield Park, Arizona

1.Why was Kylie surprised when running into a different Santa?

A. Because she got what she wished.

B. Because she knew who the Santa was.

C. Because she wished to get another toy.

D. Because she thought they were the same Santa.

2.What would Mike’s parent feel as to Mike’s different attitudes towards Santa?

A. Angry.　　 B. Sad.

C. Confused.　　 D. Understandable.

3.What did Mr. Mueller do on Christmas Day?

A. He stood outside our house.

B. He gave out gifts by acting as Santa.

C. He continued to pull weeds.

D. He stayed with us in our home.

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My three-year-old granddaughter, Tegan, went with her parents to a family gathering at the home of her other grandparents. Everyone was having a wonderful time visiting and catching up on all the latest family news.

Like most children, Tegan was having a good time playing with all the toys that were different from her own and that were kept for children to play with at her grandparents’ house. In particular, Tegan had found a little tea set and had begun pretending that she was having a tea party. She set up all the place settings and arranged her table with the great care and elegance that only a three-year-old can create. Meanwhile, her Daddy was engrossed in conversation, and as he continued to chat with his family, Tegan would hand him a cup of "tea". Her Daddy, who always tries to participate in her games, would pause for a few seconds from his conversation, and say all the proper words and gestures for her tea party which would thrill Tegan. He would request two lumps of sugar. He would tell her how wonderful her tea tasted, and then he would continue his adult conversation with his family.

After going through this routine several times, her Daddy suddenly awoke to reality as he had a flash of concern in his mind: "She is only three years old, where is she getting this ‘tea’ that I've been dutifully drinking?" He quietly followed her, without her knowing, and his fears were growing stronger as he saw her turn and go through the bathroom door. Sure enough, there she was stretching up on her tippy toes reaching up to get her ‘tea’ water -- out of the container of water that grandpa used to soak his false teeth!

1.At the family gathering, the adults __________.

A．watched their favorite TV programs

B．talked about what happened at home

C．drank tea while chatting　　　　　　

D．arranged tables for children’s games

2.Which of the following phrases can replace the underlined phrase “was engrossed in” in Paragraph 2 ?

A．got tired of　　　　　　　　　　　　         B．got annoyed by

C．was absorbed in　　　　　　　　         D．was puzzled at

3.What can be learned from the text ?

A．Tegan was unhappy to be left alone at the gathering.

B．Tegan’s father often played with her in games.

C．Tegan refused to apologize for what she had done.

D．Tegan’s father cared nothing about what she was doing.

4.Tegan’s Dad followed her secretly to find out __________.

A．whether there was any tea left

B．how she made tea so wonderful

C．where she got the sugar for tea

D．what kind of tea he had drunk

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阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

I gave a dress to my granddaughter Anne for her birthday. With a pause at the dress, she smiled lovingly at me and 1. (tell) me it was beautiful. I was happy that she liked it. One day, passing Anne’s bedroom, I heard her talking2.the phone. “My grandma gave me this very pink dress,” she said. “I really appreciate it, but who wears pink these days?” I stood there in awkward silence. Then I walked away, 3. (pretend) not to have heard anything.

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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

From its opening lines – “ ‘You my lucky piece,’ Grandma says.... Her hand is wrapped around mine” – Heidi W. Durrow pulls us into her first novel, a moving story encircling us as firmly as that protective grandmotherly grip.

When we meet Rachel Morse, the daughter of an African-American GI and a Danish woman, she is just moving into the Portland, Oregon., home of her strong-minded paternal grandmother and her warm, classy Aunt Loretta. We soon learn that Rachel has survived a fall from a nine-story apartment building in which her mother, brother, and baby sister all died. Three months earlier, Rachel’s mother had left her alcoholic husband in Germany, following her “orange-haired” lover to Chicago. But Nella hadn’t been prepared for boyfriend’s drinking and racism, or for the looks and questions she gets as the mother of three brown children.

Rachel’s “new-girl feeling” in her grandmother’s home goes beyond her recent tragedy. Having grown up with a Scandinavian mother in the more colorblind society of an overseas Army base, this is her first time in a mostly black community. Her light-brown skin, “fuzzy” hair, and blue eyes raise questions about her racial identity that are entirely new and puzzling to her.

Starting sixth grade in her new school, Rachel notes, “There are fifteen black people in the class and seven white people. And there’s me. There’s another girl who sits in the back. Her name is Carmen LaGuardia, and she has hair like mine, my same color skin, and she counts as black. I don’t understand how, but she seems to know.” Several years later, in high school, her status remains uncertain. “They call me an Oreo. I don’t want to be white. Sometimes I want to go back to being what I was. I want to be nothing.”

Winner of the Bellwether Prize, created by Barbara Kingsolver to celebrate fiction that addresses issues of social injustice, “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” comes at a time when bi-racial and multicultural identity – so markedly represented by President Obama – is especially topical.

But set in the 1980s and focusing on one unusually sympathetic girl overcoming family tragedy and feeling her way through racial tensions, Durrow’s novel surpasses topicality.

Like Rachel, Durrow is the light-brown-skinned, blue-eyed daughter of a Danish mother and an African-American father enlisted in the Air Force. With degrees from Stanford, Columbia Journalism School, and Yale Law School, it’s no wonder she gives her heroine discipline and brains.

Rachel’s life, however, is clearly not Durrow’s. No, there’s alcohol and drug addiction; deaths by fire, trauma, and infection. There are mothers who lose their children, and a saintly drug counselor who loses his beloved girl-friend. Through it all, what makes Durrow’s novel soar is her masterful sense of voice, her assured, delicate handling of complex racial issues – and her heart.

After hearing the blues music for the first time, Rachel feels what her mother called hyggeligt – “something like comfort and home and love all rolled into one.” She wonders what might have happened if her mother had known about such soulful music, “that sometimes there’s a way to take the sadness and turn it into a beautiful song.”

This, of course, is precisely what Durrow has done in this powerful book: taken sadness and turned it into a beautiful song.

1.What should be the direct cause of Rachel coming to Portland, Oregon?

A. Her mother left her alcoholic father.

B. A deadly tragedy happened to her family.

C. Her grandmother wants her to come and stay with her.

D. There was too much racism where she used to live with her mother.

2.Durrow’s life is different from Rachel’s in that _____________.

A. Durrow has to struggle through her life, depending on herself.

B. Durrow is troubled in her life by racism, living in a poor neighborhood.

C. Durrow has come through life much easier, with a better family background.

D. There’s alcohol and drug addiction in Durrow’s suffering-laden neighborhood.

3.Why does the writer of the book review mention President Obama in this writing?

A. To show the progress in America’s black community.

B. To highlight the racial harmony in the United States.

C. To indicate Obama’s influence in helping Durrow win the Bellwether Prize.

D. To remind readers of the background when the novel was written and won the Bellwether Prize.

4.The blues music Rachel hears is, deep at the bottom of her heart, most suggestive of ______.

A. bravery          B. hope           C. sadness         D. beauty

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In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and started austerity （紧缩） programs to reduce their imports．The result was a sharp drop in farm prices．This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient．They were paying for machinery, seed, and fertilizer, and they were also buying consumer goods．The prices of the items farmers bought remained constant, while prices they received for their products fell．These developments were made worse by the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and extended throughout the 1939s．

In 1929, under President Herbert Hoover, the Federal Farm Board was organized．It established the principle of direct interference （干预） with supply and demand, and it represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stability for farmers．

President Hoover's successor attached even more importance to this problem．One of the first measures proposed by President FranklinD．Roosevelt when he took office in 1933 was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was later passed by Congress．This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce production through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their land out of use．A deliberate shortage of farm products was planned in an effort to raise prices．This law was declared unconstitutional （违背宪法的） by the Supreme Court on the grounds that general taxes were being collected to pay one special group of people．However, new laws were passed immediately that achieved the same result of resting soil and providing flood-control measures, but which were based on the principle of soil conservation．The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuilding the nation’s soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to help farmers at the expense of other citizens．Later the government guaranteed loans to farmers so that they could buy farm machinery, hybrid （杂交） grain, and fertilizers．

1.What caused the problem in the demand for American farm products?

A．The effect of the Great Depression．

B．The shrinking of overseas markets．

C．The destruction caused by the First World War．

D．The increased exports of European countries．

2.The word “successor” refers to ______．

A．President Hoover                 B．US Secretary of State

C．President Franklin               D．US Secretary of Agriculture

3.The Agricultural Adjustment Act encouraged American farmers to ______．

A．reduce their scale of production

B．make full use of their land

C．adjust the prices of their farm products

D．be self-sufficient in agricultural production

4.The Supreme Court rejected the Agricultural Adjustment Act because it believed that the Act ______．

A．might cause greater shortage of farm products

B．didn't give the Secretary of Agriculture enough power

C．would benefit neither the government nor the farmers

D．benefited one group of citizens at the expense of others

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Thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in an Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve after massive injuries, tests by Arkansas officials concluded on Monday. Some 5,000 birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas after dark on New Year’s Eve. “The birds suffered from acute physical injuries leading to internal hemorrhage（大量出血） and death. There was no sign of infectious disease,” the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said in a statement. The birds were otherwise healthy, it said.

One theory is that birds were frightened by New Year's fireworks and flew into buildings or other objects. “Loud noises were reported shortly before the birds began to fall from the sky,” the statement said, adding that blackbirds have poor night vision and seldom fly at night.

　Another theory was that severe weather such as lightning accounted for the loud noises but this was discounted because the violent weather had already left the area. “We’re leaning more toward a stress event," said Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens.

The commission also is trying to determine what caused the deaths of up to 100,000 fish over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near a dam in Ozark, 125 miles west of Beebe. The fish were discovered on December 30. Stephens said the commission expected results on the fish tests in probably a month. Since almost all the fish were one species -- bottom-feeding drum, Stephens said, the test was very important. Stephens also said: “The events do not appear related.” Both that section of the river and the air at the site of the bird deaths were tested for toxins(毒素). Beebe is a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital.

1.What is NOT the probable reason why the dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky?

A. Internal hemorrhage                  B. Fireworks

C. Lightning weather                            D. Murder

2.In the third paragraph, the underlined word discounted probably mean________.

A. not to reduce cost                            B. not to believe

C. to make up a part                            D. to explain mystery

3.According to Stephens, we can infer the probable cause of the dead fish is _________.

A. cold weather                                   B. poor management

C. disease                                    D. lack of food

4.The passage is mainly developed by __________.

A. analyzing causes                             B. making comparisons

C. examining differences              D. following the time order

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It is widely believed that an apple which fell from its branches were the _______　　 for Newton’s discovery of gravity.

A. intelligence B. Acquaintance

C. application 　 D. inspiration

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Why was the man late?

A. He cleaned out the garage.

B. He fell over from the toolbox.

C. He tried to find his baseball bat.

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Near the table ______ a hungry dog, which desired to satisfy his hunger with ______ fell from the table.

A. lay; what        B. lay; that           C. laid; that           D. laid; something

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