He never thought of it before, ________all th...

He never thought of it before, ________all that his parents had done for him for granted.

A.taking   B.taken    C.to take D.took

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I never thought of it before, _______ all that my parents had done for me for granted.

A. taken    B. to take  C. taking  D. Took

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I never thought of it before, _______ all that my parents had done for me for granted.

A. taking　　　 B. taken　　　　　 C. to take　　 D. Took

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I never thought of it before, _______ all that my parents had done for me for granted.

A. taking              B. taken        C. to take                        D. took

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His idea is always so advanced that we all think that he is____ our time.

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With his eyes ______ the family album, he thought of the fun he had when he lived with his parents.

A. fixed on　　 　　　　 　 B. fixing on

C. to be fixed on　　　 D. being fixed on

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On his way to the airport, it ________ him all of a sudden that he had forgotten her birthday.

A. hit                  B. knocked          C. occurred         D. beat

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Mayor Day called me that morning, his voice full of an urgency I’d never heard before. “These Chinese big people are coming to our town and I need you to prepare something really special for them. I’m relying on you, Adrian. The whole town is. This could be just the thing to put us over the top.”

“Okay, I’m on it,” I said. I’m a caterer (酒席承办人), and for years I’ve done all the mayor’s events for Thomasville, Alabama, our little town of 4,099. He likes everything I make, but I knew exactly what he wanted this time, banana pudding, his favorite.

It’s my mama’s recipe. It was her desserts that she was known for. Mama cooked her banana pudding on the stove. Hers was thick and cream-colored, not dark yellow like the other ladies made. I remember practicing in the kitchen when I was a young girl. Mama showed me how to make banana pudding properly. “Good job, Adrian,” Mama would say. I was so proud when I finally got mine just right, the way she did.

For months Mayor Day had tried his best to persuade some Chinese businessmen who ran a copper company to build their new plant in Thomasville, but our little town didn’t have the land they needed. “We are leaning toward Houston or Lamar,” the company representative told Mayor Day. “There is nothing personal, just business.”

“Wait! What about Wilcox County?” the mayor asked. Wilcox, just east of us, was one of the poorest counties in the entire United States and had got plenty of land. There hadn’t been any kind of plant built there since the 1970s.

“But that’s not your county,” the company representative said. “Why are you lobbying (游说) for them?”

“Because if you build in Wilcox County their economy will grow and so will Thomasville’s. Besides, there’s something to be said for loving your neighbor, isn’t there?”

The representative agreed to visit Wilcox County before the final decision was made. All the top leaders would come and have lunch in Thomasville, lunch that I cooked. And for dessert, the dish the mayor hoped would sweeten the deal. Banana pudding with 300 jobs riding on it, I knew it had to be perfect, like Mama’s.

The luncheon was held at the Thomasville Civic Center. Next to each plate I’d placed a little cup of pudding. I looked on anxiously as the Chinese businessmen eyed the dessert. Were they curious or sickening? One of the men pointed at his cup and said something to the translator. I couldn’t hear his answer but the businessman still looked puzzled. He took a spoon, inserted it into the pudding, then put barely a taste to his lips. For a moment there was no reaction. Then he smiled, a grin that went from ear to ear. The rest of the businessmen started eating their pudding, one bite after another. In seconds all the cups were empty.

One of the businessmen looked toward me and said something to the translator, who waved me over to the table. “Excuse me,” he said. “Is there more? More …” he searched for the word, “… pie?” I brought out all the banana pudding. Even last cup was finished. By the time the men put down their dessert spoons they’d reached an agreement. They needed to know more about Wilcox County. There would be another meeting, another lunch.

“And we will have again the banana pie?” one of the leaders asked.

Mayor Day didn’t miss a beat. “Absolutely,” he said. “Adrian’s lunches always come with banana pie.”

And a few months later, when it was announced that the plant would be built in Wilcox County instead of Houston, everyone joked that the decision had come down to one thing. Mama’s been away for a few years now, but I like to think she’s up in heaven, looking down on that new copper plant going up in Wilcox County, and saying, “Good job, Adrian.”

1.Mayor Day asked the writer to prepare banana pudding to ______.

A. satisfy his appetite　　 B. appeal to Chinese businessmen

C. honor her mother　　 D. show off her cooking skills

2.The writer was a caterer who ______.

A. invented the recipe of banana pudding

B. made banana pudding when she was young

C. prepared banana pudding for her mother daily

D. cooked dark yellow banana pudding frequently

3.What does Mayor Day probably disagree with?

A. His neighbor town was much richer than his town.

B. No plant was built in the neighbor for many years.

C. The plant in the neighbor would benefit his town a lot.

D. His town didn’t have the land Chinese businessmen needed.

4.What can we infer from the passage?

A. The food at lunch was so delicious that all the plates were empty soon.

B. All the Chinese businessmen tasted the pudding with a spoon together.

C. The Chinese businessmen asked for more pudding with fluent English.

D. The perfect banana pudding took effect and finally sweetened the deal.

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The plant built in the neighbour　　 B. A mayor who was selfless

C. The pudding that saved a county　　 D. A caterer appreciated by mayor

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I’ve never been the kind of person to say, “it’s the thought that counts” when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when my kids gave me a present that blew me away.

For years now, I’ve been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to me, this house is much more than just a building. In the front room, there’s a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines, marking the progress of my children’s growth. Every growth stage is marked in grey, with each child’s name and the date they were measured. Most people I know have been featured on a wall like this, or at least had a wall like it in their home.

Of all the objects and all the memories, it’s this one thing in a home that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tears, but erasing that evidence of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress, right there for everyone to see.

Over the years, I’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, even though the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing. So one day, while I was at work, my children decided to do something about it.

They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer whose work is about capturing (捕捉) the beautiful things in life, from clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ballgowns. She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, took photos of the hundreds of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints (手印), and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, transforming them into a beautiful history of my family.

Three weeks later, my children’s wonderful gift made its way to me – a life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.

1.The author used her friends’ example in Paragraph 3 to ________.

A. persuade her family to leave the wall as it was

B. stress the meaning of keeping good memories

C. explain why her house badly needed a new paint job

D. share her memory of motherhood with readers

2.According to the article, it was Jacquie Manning who ________.

A. helped the author paint her new house

B. came up with the idea of the photo gift

C. shot pictures to record the author’s growth stage

D. made a copy of the growth marks on the wall

3.We can infer from the article that the author ________.

A. was strongly against selling their home

B. was not happy with the gift from her family

C. kept marks for family members every year

D. put great love and care in raising her children

4.What is the best title for the text?

A. A Gift Made with Love　　 B. Advice on Picking up Gifts for Parents

C. Paintings Count　　 D. Effective Ways to Communicate with Children

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The winner said that he had owed his success to many people his parents ________.

A. after all        B. by chance        C. on purpose        D. in particular

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