从A, B, C, D，四个选项中选出划线部分读音与其它三个不同的一个，并将其字母代号填入答题纸相应题号的括号内。

从A, B, C, D，四个选项中选出划线部分读音与其它三个不同的一个，并将其字母代号填入答题纸相应题号的括号内。

请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D、四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项

Sometimes, I wonder whether there is any love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to_1_ money. They don’t act romantic the way couples do in books and on TV. They never say, “I love you.” It’s not their _2__ .

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.

“What?” she asked, still working.

“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her __3__ a very low voice.

She stopped her work and _4__ her head. Then she bowed her head and went on sewing.

I thought I had hurt her. At last I heard my mother say: “Susan, look at this thread (线). Sometimes it _5_ , but most of the time it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt __6__ . If life is a quilt, then love should be a_7_ . It can hardly be seen anywhere, but it’s really there.”

I listened carefully but I didn’t understand her __8_ the next spring. My father suddenly got sick. My mother had to stay with him in the _9__ for a month.

After they got back, she helped my father walk slowly down the road every day. My father had never been so weak.

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t worry about me,” he said gently. “I just like _10__ with your mom.“

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. Now, I know that love is the thread that holds a family together.

1  A. have           B. make           C. put          D. spend

2  A. question       B. style            C. kind         D. life

3  A. on             B. under           C. in           D. by

4  A. nodded        B. shook           C. lowered     D. raised

5  A. appears        B. comes          C. turns        D. happens

6  A. big            B. wide            C. thick         D. strong

7  A. flower         B. thread           C. gift          D. kiss

8  A. until           B. because        C. when          D. unless

9  A. school         B. park            C. bank          D. hospital

10  A. talking       B. walking          C. watching     D. looking

完形填空（共12分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项
　　I had my first job at the age of thirteen, when a friend of my mother’s who owned a book shop hired（雇佣） me for six hours a week to help her in the shop. I was very 　1　 　to earn my own pocket money and my parents 　2　 　interfered（干涉）with how I spent it, even when I was spending it foolishly. They believed that by earning money, spending it, and learning from the 　3　 , I would become more mature（成熟的） and responsible about how to handle work, relationships with others, and money.
　　Like many American parents, my parents also let me and my brothers do things over which they 　4 　　a great deal. When I was sixteen, for example, after I finished high school and before I entered university, I wanted to spend the summer months traveling around Europe. My mother was against the idea of my traveling alone at such a young age, but my father felt that it would be a great 　5　 　for me. In the end, my father won the argument（争论） on the 　6　 　that I limited（限定）my traveling to France, my mother’s home, where I had many uncles, aunts and cousins spread out through the country who could 　7　 　shelter（住处）and help if I needed them.
　　Three years later, my younger brother decided to 　8　 　a year off after his first year in university and travel through the United States and the Caribbean. Again my mother was very worried and not eager to see my brother leave school, but my father encouraged him and my brother had a(n) 　9　 　year working his way on trains and ships to 　10 　　passage to different ports and cities, and discovering many fascinating places and people.
　　These kinds of experiences are probably rare（稀少的）for children in many countries but in the US they are fairly common. Most parents start 　11　 　their children at a young age to do small things by themselves. By the time they have finished high school, many American kids have already had part-time jobs, traveled around the US or other countries on their own, have selected the university they plan to attend and maybe even 　12　 　on their future career, and so on.