Question

It was pouring outside. We all stood there  16  , some patiently, others annoyed  17  nature messed up their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens  18  away the dirt and dust of the world.

    “Mom, let’s run through the rain.” a girl’s voice  19  me.

    “No, honey. We’ll wait until it  20  down a bit.” Mom replied.

    The young girl waited about another minute and  21 : “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

    “We’ll get wet if we do,” Mom said.

    “No. we won’t, Mom. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said as she  22  her Mom’s arm.

    “This morning?  23 __ did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?”

    “Don’t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, ‘If God can get us through this, he can get us through  24  .’”

    The entire crowd turned   25 . Mom paused and thought for a moment about  26  she would say.

Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being  27 . But then we heard, “Honey, you are  28  . Let’s run through the rain. If we get wet, maybe we just need washing,” Mom said. Then  29  they ran.

     We all stood  30__ , smiling and laughing as they ran past the cars. Yes, they got wet. But they were  31  by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the  32  to their cars. Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, and they can even take away your  33  . But no one can ever take away your precious  34  . So, don’t forget to make time and take the  35  to make memories every day! I hope you still take the time to run though the rain.

16. A. talking                    B. waiting             C. complaining           D. expecting

17. A. as if                 B. even if             C. because             D. when

18. A. taking               B. putting            C. driving             D. washing

19. A. caught              B. annoyed           C. impressed           D. called

20. A. slows               B. comes              C. pushes              D. stops

21. A. asked               B. repeated           C. required           D. added

22. A. pulled               B. touched           C. waved              D. felt

23. A. Why                B. How                C. When              D. Where

24. A. the rain            B. the disease       C. anything          D. something

25. A. still                 B. silent              C. serious              D. angry

26. A. what              B. how                       C. whether             D. if

27. A. dishonest            B. silly                       C. daring              D. forgetful

28. A. right                B. wrong             C. stupid            D. clever

29. A. off                 B. along              C. on                 D. over

30. A. sighing              B. joking             C. discussing         D. watching

31. A. followed           B. guided                  C. respected            D. praised

32. A. time                      B. way                 C. same                D. best

33. A. house               B. money             C. health            D. time

34. A. children             B. memories         C. courage           D. experience

35. A. possibilities          B. opportunities    C. risk              D. challenge

Answer 1

16-20 BCDAA 21-25 BACCB 26-30 ABAAD 31-35 ABCBB

解析:

16．B。外面下雨了，人們都在躲雨，等候雨停。下文母親的話“We’ll wait until...”也給出了提示。從后半句看，一些人耐心，一些人有些惱怒，所以不能說大家都在抱怨。

17．C。別的人惱怒，當(dāng)然因?yàn)榇笞匀坏耐蝗唤涤甏騺y了他們正常的工作生活節(jié)奏。

18．D。雨水沖刷走了世界上的塵土和臟物。

19．A。catch me相當(dāng)于catch my attention，“引起了我的注意力”，因?yàn)榇饲拔艺�沉醉于雨水帶來的感受中。并沒有讓我惱怒，也談不上給我留下了很深的印象。

20．A。slow down指雨下得緩和一點(diǎn)，不能說stop a bit，停止不存在程度上的一點(diǎn)。

21．B。此句話和前面說的話一樣，所以是重復(fù)了一遍。

22．A。小孩子想讓母親一起在雨中走，而母親又沒有答應(yīng)，所以孩子要拉著母親的手往外走。

23．C。從女兒的回答“When you were talking ...”可知母親是問小孩自己是什么時(shí)候說那話的。

24．C。如果上帝能讓小孩的父親度過這一難關(guān)，則能讓他們度過任何“難關(guān)”。

25．B。still一動(dòng)不動(dòng)；silent沉默，不出聲。對(duì)于小孩的這一天真美好的愿望，大家顯然都事先沒有想到，所以都在沉默，并靜觀下面事情的發(fā)展。

26．A。what引導(dǎo)賓語從句，what在句中充當(dāng)say的賓語，母親在考慮要和女兒怎么說。

27．B。母親知道，孩子說出的話，在一些人看來肯定會(huì)是有點(diǎn)傻的，因?yàn)樯系凼遣淮嬖诘�，這種愿望只是一種幻想。dishonest不誠(chéng)實(shí)的，欺騙的。孩子的說法是一種美好愿望，當(dāng)然算不上是欺騙。

28．A。母親不愿破壞孩子的童真，所以表示贊同“你是對(duì)的”，是肯定孩子的話就是自己講過的話，而不是說孩子聰明。

29．A。run off跑開。此處強(qiáng)調(diào)off，故把這個(gè)詞提前。

30．D。上文的silent以及下文的smiling，laughing可以看出母女的行為已引起了人們的關(guān)注，他們都在看著母女倆在雨中跑。

31．A。從定語從句可知，母女的行為也感染了其他的人，又有幾個(gè)人也加入她們的行列，在雨中奔跑。follow跟著。

32．B。all the way一路上。way和后面的to搭配。這幾個(gè)人一邊跑一邊又叫又笑，很興奮。

33．C。母女的美好愿望是源于小孩的父親得癌癥了，所以說境況可以帶走人們的健康。

34．B。從下文“… make memories every day!”可知，自己創(chuàng)造的美好記憶是不會(huì)被帶走的。

35．B。take the chance / opportunities to do …抓住機(jī)會(huì)做某事，為固定搭配。該句的意思是“抓住創(chuàng)造美好記憶的機(jī)會(huì)。