After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail（衰弱） and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed（挤榨的） orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note reading, “Drink your juice.” Such a gesture（表示）, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom “Why doesn’t Dad love me?” Mom frowned（皱眉）, “Who said he doesn’t love you?”“Well, he never tells me,” I complained. He never tells me either,” she said, smiling. “But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house. That’s how your father tells us he loves us.”
I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap（小片） metal business, and after school I often hung around while he worked. Dad handfed scrap steel into a device（装置） that chopped （切）it as cleanly as a butcher（屠夫） chops a rack of ribs（肋骨）. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors（剪刀）, with blades（刃） thicker than my father’s body. If he didn’t feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury. “Why don’t you hire someone to do that for you?” Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and rubbed（搓） his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment（涂剂）. “Why don’t you hire a cook?” Dad asked , giving her one of his rare smiles.
Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I walked over, hugged him and said, “I love you, Dad.” From then on I did this every morning. My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.
【小题1】What would be the best title for the passage?
A I just couldn’t understand my father      B My father never loved me
C Silent fatherly love      D My hard-working father
【小题2】The author’s father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because ______.
A that was the author’s favorite      B he was sure the author would be thirsty
C the author was always complaining      D that was a gesture of love
【小题3】The author’s father didn’t hire a helper because ______.
A his job was too dangerous      B his job required high skills
C he wanted to save money      D he was not good at communicating with others
【小题4】We may infer from the passage that ______.
A the author’s father lacked a sense of humor
B the author quite understood his father as time went on
C the author’s father didn’t love him very much
D the author’s father was too strict with him

After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail（衰弱） and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed（挤榨的） orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note reading, “Drink your juice.” Such a gesture（表示）, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom “Why doesn’t Dad love me?” Mom frowned（皱眉）, “Who said he doesn’t love you?” “Well, he never tells me,” I complained. He never tells me either,” she said, smiling. “But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house. That’s how your father tells us he loves us.”

I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap（小片） metal business, and after school I often hung around while he worked. Dad handfed scrap steel into a device（装置） that chopped （切）it as cleanly as a butcher（屠夫） chops a rack of ribs（肋骨）. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors（剪刀）, with blades（刃） thicker than my father’s body. If he didn’t feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury. “Why don’t you hire someone to do that for you?” Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and rubbed（搓） his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment（涂剂）. “Why don’t you hire a cook?” Dad asked , giving her one of his rare smiles.

Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I walked over, hugged him and said, “I love you, Dad.” From then on I did this every morning. My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.

1.What would be the best title for the passage?

  A I just couldn’t understand my father      B My father never loved me

  C Silent fatherly love      D My hard-working father

2.The author’s father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because ______.

  A that was the author’s favorite      B he was sure the author would be thirsty

  C the author was always complaining      D that was a gesture of love

3.The author’s father didn’t hire a helper because ______.

  A his job was too dangerous      B his job required high skills

  C he wanted to save money      D he was not good at communicating with others

4.We may infer from the passage that ______.

  A the author’s father lacked a sense of humor

  B the author quite understood his father as time went on

  C the author’s father didn’t love him very much

  D the author’s father was too strict with him

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

A newly trained teacher named Molly went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __36__   the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from   37   homework.

They would stand there, silently,  38   to complete the task. Molly couldn’t figure it out.

   39  she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she   40  hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.

What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the  41  ? Molly would wonder. No,  42  couldn’t be that. Finally she   43   the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a   44   lesson from her young   45  pupils about self-image and a(n)   46   of self-worth.

It seemed that the students  47  each other’s individuality and knew that  48  of them were capable of doing the problems.   49  at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would  50  if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the  51  . So they   52   to compete with each other in public.

Once she understood, Molly changed the system   53   she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense  54  his classmates. They all wanted to learn, 55  not at someone else’s expense.

36．A．go to     B．come to    C．get close to      D．bring

37．A．his        B．their      C．his own        D．her

38．A．happy       B．willingly   C．readily          D．unwilling

39．A．Anything  B．Nothing    C．Everything       D．Neither

40．A．almost      B．certainly   C．hardly          D．never

41．A．question   B．chalkboardC．problem       D．homework

42．A．they      B．it          C．Everything   D．each

43．A．asked       B．questioned       C．told           D．understood

44．A．outstanding    B．surprising C．annoying  D．frightening

45．A．sunburned B．tender       C．Indian      D．naughty

46．A．sense B．image       C．way   D．aspect

47．A．had   B．ignored     C．respected  D．cared

48．A．none        B．no one      C．each  D．not all

49．A．Especially B．Even though    C．Even so    D．Even

50．A．lose   B．win   C．achieve     D．answer

51．A．time  B．situation   C．chalkboard       D．condition

52．A．refused     B．rejected    C．tried  D．promised

53．A．if      B．so that      C．unless       D．in case

54．A．in favour of    B．of     C．by means of          D．in front of

55．A．and   B．but    C．so     D．or

A newly trained teacher named Mary went to teach at a Navajo Indian reservation. Every day, she would ask five of the young Navajo students to __1__ the chalkboard and complete a simple math problem from   2   homework.

They would stand there, silently,  3   to complete the task. Mary couldn’t figure it out.   4   she had studied in her educational curriculum helped, and she   5   hadn’t seen anything like it in her student-teaching days back in Phoenix.

What am I doing wrong? Could I have chosen five students who can’t do the  6  ? Mary would wonder. No,  7  couldn’t be that. Finally she   8   the students what was wrong. And in their answers, she learned a   9   lesson from her young   10   pupils about self-image and a(n)   11   of self-worth.

It seemed that the students  12  each other’s individuality and knew that  13  of them were capable of doing the problems.   14  at their early age, they understood the senselessness of the win-lose approach in the classroom. They believed no one would  15  if any students were shown up or embarrassed at the  16  . So they   17   to compete with each other in public.

Once she understood, Mary changed the system   18   she could check each child’s math problem individually, but not at any child’s expense  19  his classmates. They all wanted to learn,  20  not at someone else’s expense.

1.  A. go to   B. come to      C. get close to D. bring

2.  A. his      B. their   C. his own      D. her

3.  A. happy  B. willingly    C. readily       D. unwilling

4.  A. Anything    B. Nothing     C. Everything D. Neither

5.  A. almost B. certainly     C. hardly       D. never

6.  A. question      B. chalkboard C. problem     D. homework

7.  A. they    B. it C. everything  D. each

8.  A. asked   B. questioned  C. told    D. understood

9.  A. outstanding B. surprising   C. annoying    D. frightening

10. A. sunburned    B. tender C. Indian D. naughty

11. A. sense    B. image C. way    D. aspect

12. A. had      B. ignored      C. respected    D. cared

13. A. none    B. no one       C. each    D. not all

14. A. Especially    B. Even though      C. Even so      D. Even

15. A. lose      B. win     C. achieve      D. answer

16. A. time     B. situation     C. chalkboard D. condition

17. A. refused B. rejected      C. tried   D. promised

18. A. if       B. so that C. unless D. in case

19. A. in favour of        B. of       C. by means of       D. in front of

20. A. and      B. but     C. so       D. or