When my father was celebrating a milestone (里程碑) birthday, I pulled together a surprise gift that he would never forget.
As he was approaching 60,1 had a firm idea: What if I could get the memories people had of him, put each one into an envelope - 60 in total - and have him open them, one by one, on his birthday? So I wrote an e-mail to family and friends, explaining my idea.
I sent the e-mail and waited. And then the replies started coming in and I was very, very surprised. There were so many memories, and they were all so lovely. They came from the '50s, '60s, '70s, from every decade(十年) between now and the day my dad was born. They came from my mother, my siblings, my grandma, my dad's friends from high school, his sister, my dad's first boss, a colleague at his first job, from people who hadn't seen my dad in 40 years, from people I myself hadn't even informed. They typed them and handwrote them. They mailed them and e-mailed them.
The night before Dad's birthday, my sister and 1 stayed up late, putting everything together with some
The next morning, after breakfast and presents and cake, we gave the pile of envelopes to him. "Just one more thing for you," we said.
It took him a long time to open them and read. Each one was a brief ticket to another time, a leap (跳躍) backward over years and decades. There was a lot of laughter and a few tears, too.
I was kind of sad when the project was over because it was great fun to collect these memories. It gave me a different picture of my dad.
1.When did the author give her father a surprise gift? (no more than 4 words)
2.Who sent the mails? (no more than 6 words)
3.Why did the author and her sister stay up late the night before their father's birthday? (no more than 9 words)
4.How did the author's father most probably feel when he read (he mails? (no more than 3 words)
5.What was the surprise gift? (no more than 6 words)
1.On his 60th birthday.
2.The people who know/knew her father.
3.Because they needed to put the mails into envelopes.
4.He felt/was moved/excited/happy.
5.The memories about/of the author’s father.
【解析】
試題分析: 本文是一篇記敘文。在文中作者講述了她在父親60歲生日時是如何給父親送上一份特別的生日禮物的故事。在父親生日前她突然有了一個主意,就是給父親收集60個熟悉他的人對過去事情的美好回憶,然后放到信封里,去給父親一個驚喜。然后她真地實踐了自己的想法,成功地收集到了那些美好的回憶,給父親了一個難忘的生日禮物。
1.On his 60th birthday. 考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章首段和第二段內(nèi)容可知作者送給父親特別的禮物是在他60歲生日那天,答案填 On his 60th birthday
2.The people who know/knew her father. 考查細節(jié)理解。從文章第三段內(nèi)容They came from my mother, …… a colleague at his first job, from people who hadn't seen my dad in 40 years, from people I myself hadn't even informed.可知父親的親戚,朋友,家人和一切認識他的人寄來了信或者發(fā)來email,故答案為The people who know /knew her father。
3.Because they needed to put the mails into envelopes. 考查細節(jié)理解。由文章第四段my sister and 1 stayed up late, putting everything together with some可知他們晚上熬夜要把信裝進信封,答案為Because they needed to put the mails into envelopes。
4.He felt/was moved/excited/happy. 考查推理判斷。從文章倒數(shù)第二段there was a lot of laughter and a few tears ,too判斷父親非常激動。答案填He felt / was moved / excited /happy。
5.The memories about/of the author’s father. 考查細節(jié)理解。從文章內(nèi)容可知作者給父親的禮物是別人有關(guān)父親的回憶,答案為The memories about / of the author’s father 。
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