(2009年湖南三十二校联考)Valentine’s Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly(天真地)thought __1__him as my “Valentine man”.
My first recollection of the __2__he could bring to Valentine’s Day came when I was six. That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a giftwrapped package at my chair. The card was __3__“Love, Dad”and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to __4__my birthstone, a ruby(红宝石). There is __5__difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember __6__that ring with pride that all the cards in the world __7__not surpass(超越).
__8__I grew older, the gifts gave __9__to heartshaped boxes filled with my __10__chocolate and always included a __11__card signed “Love, Dad”. In those years my thankyou became __12__of a perfunctory(敷衍的)response.The cards seemed less __13__, and I took it for granted that the Valentine would __14__be there. I had __15__my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from“significant others”and “Love, Dad”just didn’t seem quite __16__.
His final card remains on my desk today. It’s a __17__of how special fathers can be and how important it has been to me over the years to know that I had a father who continued a __18__of love with simple acts of understanding and an ability to express happiness over the people in his life.
Those things never __19__, nor does the memory of a man who never __20__being my valentine.
1.A.of B.about
C.up D.over
解析:选A。think of...as...是固定短语,意为“把……视为/看作……”。
2.A.memory B.magic
C.puzzle D.present
解析:选B。语境:我对情人节的记忆最早是从我六岁那年开始的。依据下文的描述可知,作者对这个情人节的记忆特别深刻,所以用magic来描述那种难以忘怀的感觉。
3.A.read B.written
C.shown D.signed
解析:选D。卡片上有父亲的签名。该选项从第三段第一句中的“included a...card signed‘Love,Dad’”可得到提示。
4.A.recover B.resemble
C.represent D.replace
解析:选C。礼物是一个戒指,上面镶着一片红色的玻璃来代表我的诞生石--红宝石。其他选项不符合语境。
5.A.much B.little
C.great D.less
解析:选B。依据下文的with pride可知,该处用little。对一个六岁的孩子而言,红玻璃和红宝石没有什么不同。
6.A.having B.owning
C.wearing D.watching
解析:选C。表示佩戴首饰只能用wear。
7.A.could B.did
C.must D.should
解析:选A。上文提及作者佩戴这个礼物时的自豪之情,所以这里选A,认为这是最好的,世界上所有的卡片都不能超过它。
8.A.Because B.Since
C.When D.As
解析:选D。as在此处引导时间状语从句,意为“随着”。
9.A.room B.way
C.honour D.seat
解析:选B。随着我年龄的增加,礼物变成装满了我最喜爱的巧克力的心形盒子。give way to是固定短语,意为“为……所代替”。
10.A.favorite B.lovely
C.dear D.precious
解析:选A。该题可采用排除法,修饰巧克力不能用“可爱的;亲爱的;宝贵的”,但可以用“最喜爱的”。
11.A.usual B.common
C.strange D.special
解析:选D。父亲的卡片是特殊的,特别的。
12.A.less B.little
C.more D.much
解析:选C。该处语境为“而我的感谢越来越成为一种敷衍的回应”。从上下文可知,此处是与以前相对比。
13.A.important B.beautiful
C.familiar D.standard
解析:选A。这些贺卡看起来似乎不再那么重要。
14.A.surely B.always
C.regularly D.often
解析:选B。我想当然地认为情人节年年都有。正如此,才有了后文的不珍惜及上文提及的说感谢的话也成了敷衍的回应。
15.A.let B.kept
C.placed D.remembered
解析:选C。我把希望和梦想放在收到那些来自“重要的其他人”的卡片和礼物上。place意为“(小心或有意)放置,安放”,用在此处能反映出作者当时对父亲的爱的漠视。
16.A.suitable B.enough
C.effective D.sacred
解析:选B。来自父亲的贺卡似乎远远不够(满足女儿的需要)。与上文的from “significant others”相照应。
17.A.signal B.certificate
C.consequence D.reminder
解析:选D。父亲送我的最后一张卡片在提醒着我:父亲对子女的爱是多么特别又是多么重要。看到父亲的卡片,就想起了父亲和卡片的意义,所以这张卡片具有“提示”的功能,故选D。
18.A.tradition B.hobby
C.habit D.custom
解析:选A。由上文可知,父亲一直都在这么做,所以用tradition(传统)。
19.A.lose B.die
C.miss D.appear
解析:选B。语境:这些事情永远不会消逝,就如同我对一位男子的记忆,他永远是我的情人。这句话表达了女儿对父亲永远的怀念。die在此表“消逝”。
20.A.thought B.wanted
C.tried D.stopped
解析:选D。stop doing sth.“停止做某事”符合语境。stop与上文提及的两个never正好照应。
10.-Could you please tell us about some good ways to learn English?
-My suggestion is that reading often and writing regularly________.
A.are needed B.is needed
C.be needed D.should need
解析:选C。suggestion后的表语从句表建议时用虚拟语气,从句谓语应用should+动词原形,should可省略。
9.Miss Yang________at 5∶00 for the meeting,but she didn’t appear.
A.should have arrived B.should arrive
C.can have arrived D.can arrive
解析:选A。句意:杨小姐应该5点到会,但她没来。should have done本该做但实际没做。
8.The information on the Internet gets around much more rapidly than________in the newspaper.
A.it B.those
C.one D.that
解析:选D。that是代词,这里代替的是不可数名词information。
7.He tried to deal with the increasing burden of his work,but he finally________and had to take a complete rest.
A.broke off B.broke away
C.broke out D.broke down
解析:选D。题干中提到他忙于不断增加的工作负担,最后累倒(broke down)了;break down在此意为“身体垮了”。break off突然停止;break away逃脱,脱离;break out爆发。
6.If I were you,I would take it easy;________is no need to be nervous.
A.it B.this
C.there D.which
解析:选C。there is no need to do/be是固定句型,意为“没有必要……”。
5.Though computers can do a lot of work man can’t do,they can’t completely________human beings.
A.replace with B.instead of
C.take place D.take the place of
解析:选D。take the place of代替;replace取代,代替,为及物动词;instead of代替,为副词短语,此处不合适;take place发生,不合题意。
4.There were no seats________for today’s performance so we went shopping instead.
A.available B.valuable
C.expensive D.enthusiastic
解析:选A。句意:因为没有看今天的节目的座了,所以我们去购物。available意为“可以得到的;可用的”。
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