请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
“But what if I break my arm again?” My five-year-old daughter asked. I knew how much she wanted to learn to
41 .Yet ever since she fell off her bicycle and broke her arm, she’d been
42_ .
“Oh, honey,” I said. “I don’t think you’ll break
43 arm.”
“But I could, couldn’t I?”
“Yes,” I
44 and found myself struggling for the right thing to say. At times like this, I
45 I had someone who might help me find the right words to make my girl’s problems disappear. But after a painful
46 , I’d decided to remain single.
“ I don’t want to ride,” she said and got off her bike.
“ You know, honey,” I said. “ Almost everything you do comes with
47 . You could break your arm jumping rope. You
48 break
your arm at gymnastics. Do you want to stop going to gymnastics?”
“No,” she said. And with a
49 spirit, she agreed to try it again. I held on to her bike until she found the
50 to say, “Let’s go!” I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a brave little girl overcome a
51 .
As we walked home, she
52 me about a conversation I had. “Why were you and grandma arguing last night?”
My mother wanted me to marry again,
53 I told her I didn’t want to meet the Mr. Perfect she
54 for me. She said she knew Steve was the man for me.
“It’s nothing,” I told her.
She shrugged, “Grandma said she just wanted you to find someone to
55 .”
“What grandma wants is for some guy to break my
56 again!” I lost control.
She was
57 for several minutes. Then she said something
58 me to think about. “So I think love isn’t like a broken arm.”
Unable to answer, we walked in silence. Later I did what my bra
ve girl did that afternoon. I
59 to meet Steve.
Steve was the man for me. We married soon. It turned out mother and my daughter were
60 .
小题1:1.
| A．speak | B．ride | C．walk | D．drive |
小题2:.
| A．disappointed | B．satisfied |
C．shamed | D．afraid |
| 小题3: | | A．both | B．the other | | C．other | D．another |
|
小题4:.
| A．sighed | B．regretted |
| C．admitted | D．whispered |
小题5:.
| A．wished | B．thought |
| C．realized | D．decided |
小题6:.
| A．experience | B．divorce |
| C．memory | D．mistake |
小题7:.
| A．luck | B．surprise |
| C．risks | D．results |
小题8:
| A．could | B．should |
| C．would | D．must |
小题9:.
| A．determined | B．frightened |
| C．comforted | D．encouraged |
小题10:.
| A．destination | B．sense | C．strength | D．courage |
小题11:.
| A．shyness | B．fear | C．difficulty | D．disadvantage |
小题12:.
| A．told | B．said | C．asked | D．reminded |
小题13:.
小题14:.
| A．referred to | B．set side | C．gave away | D．picked out |
小题15:.
| A．trust | B．love | C．help | D．accept |
小题16:.
| A．glasses | B．habit | C．heart | D．power |
小题17:.
| A．nervous | B．quiet | C．sad | D．serious |
小题18:.
小题19:.
| A．agreed | B．pretended |
| C．continued | D．stopped |
小题20:.
| A．interesting | B．curious |
| C．careful | D．right |
t. After 40 years, he passed away and left her a letter which said, “My dearest, please forgive my whole life’s lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but said salt. It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I didn’t like the salty coffee then, what a strange bad taste! But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life, for it was prepared by you.”
d a step (39)_____. I was very (40)____, so I walked to the window to find out the cause. There was a notice on which was written “Thank you for your (41)_____for other's privacy”—a polite (42)_____to keep people away from nosing into other's (43)_____ (money matters are regarded as privacy in Western countries). I was deeply impressed by the (44)____ and stayed a while to watch: they were waiting so (45)____ at a dis
tance that they seemed quite (46) _____to the practice. The (47)____ thing happened at a public telephone box. (48)_____ waiting for their turns always kept their distance—enough to be out of (49)____ . It's another typical example!?
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