I’d appreciate ______ if you would like to teach me how to use the expression once more and I always

appreciated _______ me with my English in the past．

       A． that; you to help                                 B． this; you helping                       

       C． it; you to help                                    D． it; your helping

People with an ________ of art and literature can ________ works of art.

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Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers ___1.___ it was too late to tell them. I am blessed (赐福) with the dear mother who is still alive. I ___2.___ her more each day. My mother does not change, but I ___3.___ . As I grow older and wiser, I realize ___4.___ an extraordinary person she is. How ___5.___ that I am unable to speak these words in her ___6.___ , but they flow easily from my pen.

　　How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life itself? For the love, patience and just ___7.___ hard work that go into ___8.___ a child? For running after a toddler (学走步的小孩), for understanding a ___9.___ teenager, for tolerating (忍受;容忍) a college student who knows ___10.___ ? For waiting for the day when a daughter ___11.___ how wise her mother really is?

　　How does a ___12.___ woman thank a mother for ___13.___ to be a mother? For being ready ___14.___ advice (when asked) or remaining ___15.____ when it is most appreciated? For not saying, “I told you so,” when she could have uttered these words ___16.___ ? For being ___17.___ herself-loving, thoughtful, patient, and forgiving?

　　I don’t know how, dear God, except to ask you to bless her as richly as she ___18.___ and to help me live up to the example she has ___19.___ . I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother ___20.___ in mine.

21.               A．as             B．that           C．until  D．when

 

22.               A．approve        B．appreciate      C．need D．resemble

 

23.               A．do            B．have           C．did   D．will

 

24.               A．how           B．that           C．who  D．what

 

25.A.sad           B.glad              C.comic            D tragic

26.               A．absence        B．presence       C．appearance    D．existence

 

27.               A．common        B．plain           C．normal    D．usual

 

28.               A．raising         B．rising          C．developing D．training

 

29.               A．childish        B．energetic       C．fearless   D．moody

 

30.               A．anything        B．something      C．everything D．nothing

 

31.               A．detects         B．discovers       C．recognizes D．realizes

 

32.               A．pretty          B．foolish         C．green D．grown

 

33.               A．failing          B．intending       C．continuing D．keeping

 

34.               A．by            B．with           C．for   D．on

 

35.               A．silent          B．quiet          C．cool  D．noiseless

 

36.               A．dozen times     B．a dozen of times C．dozens of times D．dozen of time

 

37.               A．valuably        B．essentially      C．naturally   D．virtually

 

38.               A．devotes        B．deserts         C．deserves  D．desires

 

39.               A．set            B．settled         C．placed    D．fixed

 

40.               A．sees           B．finds           C．is    D．looks