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【題目】根據短文理解，選擇正確答案。
It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing out there?” I called to him.
He looked up, smiling. “I'm making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just about anything. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us. Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught up in the busyness of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise.
Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番紅花）throughout the front lawn — blue, yellow and my favorite pink, with little faces moving up and down in the cold wind. I remembered the things Dad secretly planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?
My father's crocuses bloomed (開花） each spring for the next five seasons, always bringing the same assurance： Hard times are almost over. Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon.
Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms and the next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses, so I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs. But I never did. He died suddenly one October day. My family were in deep sorrow, leaning on our faith.
On a spring afternoon four years later, I was driving back when I felt depressed. It was Dad's birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusual — my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived up to his faith. Suddenly I slowed as I turned into our driveway. I stopped and stared at the lawn. There on the muddy grass with small piles of melting snow, bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus.
How could a flower bloom from a bulb more than 18 years ago, one that hadn't bloomed in over a decade? But there was the crocus. Tears filled my eyes as I realized its significance.
Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day, but it built my faith for a lifetime.
（1）According to the first three paragraphs, we learn that ________.
A.it kept bothering the author not knowing what the surprise was
B.the author was unpacking when her father was making the surprise
C.it was not the first time that the author's father had made a surprise
D.the author knew what the surprise was because she knew her father
（2）Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.The author usually felt depressed in the season of winter.
B.The author's father planted the crocuses to lift her low spirits.
C.The author often thought about her father after he died.
D.The crocuses bloomed each spring before her father died.
（3）The author's father should be best described as ______.
A.a part-time worker who loved flowers
B.a kind-hearted man who lived with faith
C.a full-time gardener with skillful hands
D.an ordinary man with doubts in his life
（4）What can be the best title for the passage?
A.Crocuses — My Source of Faith
B.Crocuses— Father's Surprise
C.A Pink Crocus — My Memory
D.Crocuses in Blossom — My Favorite

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）C
（2）D
（3）B
（4）A
【解析】這是一篇記敘文，作者講述了自己與父親之間一個感人的故事。父親種的番紅花每年春天迎風搖曳，仿佛在說艱難總會過去，光明即將到來。這時作者就會想起慈愛的父親和父親通過番紅花告訴他的信念。

⑴考查細節(jié)理解。根據第一段中的“When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.”可知，我們小時候父親總是給我們制造一些驚喜，故選C。

⑵考查細節(jié)理解。根據第五段中的“Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms and the next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses”可知，父親在世時番紅花并不是每年都開花，D錯誤。故選D。

⑶考查推理判斷。縱觀全文可知，父親知道女兒冬天容易情緒低落，所以種了番紅花，讓它在春天點綴女兒的心情，提醒她光明即將到來。由此可知父親是kind-hearted，根據倒數第三段中的“my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived up to his faith.”可知，父親是有信念的人，故選B。

⑷考查主旨大意。父親通過種番紅花讓女兒心情好起來，通過番紅花時刻告訴女兒艱難總會過去，光明即將到來的信念。