Question

Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years.She would ____ down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead.

I don't remember when it first started ___ me — her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt work?worn and rough ____ my young skin.Finally，one night, I shouted out at her, “Don't do that any more—your hands are too rough！” she made no ____ and left quietly.But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her ____.

With the passing years, my ____returned to that night time after time.By then I ____ my mother's hands and her goodnight kiss.Sometimes the incident seemed very ____， sometimes far away, but always it was ____ in the back of my mind.

The years have passed, and I'm not a little girl any more.Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once ___ to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.

Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives ____.One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself ___to her house to spend the night with her.As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to ___the hair from my forehead.Then a ____， ever so gently , touched my forehead.I burst into tears.

In my memory, thousands of times, I ____ the night my young voice complained.Catching Mom's hand in hand, I told her how ____I was for that night.I thought she'd remember ____ I did.But Mom didn't know what I was talking about.She had already forgotten and ____ long ago.

That night, I fell asleep with a new ____for my gentle mother and her caring hands.And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was ____ to be found.

1.A.lie B．bend C．look D．fall

2.A.annoying B．a(chǎn)stonishing

C．delighting D．disappointing

3.A.along B．a(chǎn)bove C．a(chǎn)gainst D．a(chǎn)side

4.A.reply B．promise

C．request D．a(chǎn)greement

5.A.pity B．sadness C．a(chǎn)pology D．love

6.A.feelings B．opinions

C．spirits D．thoughts

7.A.missed B．forgot C．held D．shook

8.A.strange B．close C．serious D．common

9.A.stressed B．existed C．hidden D．exposed

10.A.expected B．changed

C．reminded D．complained

11.A.yet B．a(chǎn)way C．a(chǎn)lone D．long

12.A.drawn B．carried C．moved D．stayed

13.A.cut B．wash C．brush D．take

14.A.tear B．kiss C．press D．hand

15.A.returned B．remembered

C．realized D．recalled

16.A.sorry B．happy C．a(chǎn)ngry D．nervous

17.A.when B．how C．why D．a(chǎn)s

18.A.disappeared B．forgiven

C．a(chǎn)pologized D．a(chǎn)bandoned

19.A.imagination B．inspiration

C．decoration D．a(chǎn)ppreciation

20.A.still B．soon C．nowhere D．a(chǎn)nyhow

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.A

5.D

6.D

7.A

8.B

9.C

10.B

11.C

12.A

13.C

14.B

15.D

16.A

17.D

18.D

19.B

20.C

【解析】

1.答案　B　[bent down 意即：母親在床邊俯身。]

2.2】答案　A　[“when it first started annoying me...” 句中的it指母親捋我頭發(fā)這事，母親這一舉動使我不高興。]

3.3】答案　C　[母親的手撫摸我，我感到粗糙。against 有 touching 之意。]

4.4】答案　A　[我沖母親叫，她沒回應。這里用reply。 promise : 諾言；request: 要求；agreement: 同意。]

5.5】答案　D　[根據(jù)上下文，這里的意思是：母親表達的是一種愛。]

6.6】答案　D　[我?guī)啄曛�后又想到那晚的情景，think的名詞是thoughts；feelings: 感情，心情。]

7.7】答案　A　[我懷念母親的手。missed: 想念，惦記。]

8.8】答案　B　[兒時發(fā)生的那件事在我的記憶中時而近時而遠，但總是內(nèi)心揮之不去的愧疚。close與后文的far away有關。]

9.9】答案　C　[句中的it指“愧疚”，它始終在我心中。be hidden in 隱藏在……； exist是不及物動詞搭配不對。]

10.0】答案　B　[“I once changed to be so rough”是定語從句修飾hands, 這里的意思是：我使母親的手變得粗糙，因為母親為我操勞了許多。]

11.1】答案　C　[父親去世后，母親單獨生活。后文有．..to her house to spend the night with her。]

12.2】答案　A　[drawn to her house: 自己被母愛所“吸引”。]

13.3】答案　C　[把擋住額頭的頭發(fā)梳了過去。 brush one's hair：梳頭發(fā)。]

14.4】答案　B　[母親吻了我。]

15.5】答案　D　[recall：回憶；returned：返回；歸還； remembered：記��； realized：意識到。I recalled the night...意即：I thought of the night...]

16.6】答案　A　[sorry一詞與愧疚有關。其余的選項與上下文意思不符。]

17.7】答案　D　[as I did是一個表方式的狀語，像我一樣記得那事。]

18.8】答案　D　[這里說的是作者對母親的手產(chǎn)生了一種新的“感激”。]

19.9】答案　B　[forgotten and forgiven說的是母親忘了，原諒了我。abandoned：被放棄/扔棄，遺棄/了的。]

20.20】答案　C　[母女情深，這時我感到得到了母愛的包容，因而我的愧疚蕩然無存。]