My grandmother bought me a skirt for my birthday，but   ，I don′t like it at all.

A．to start with    B．to tell the truth  C．to in fact   D．to tell a lie

My husband and l were talking about possible colours because it was time for painting the kitchen again. The children, sat nearby and suddenly shouted, "Not the measuring（测量）stick!”

    The measuring stick isn't a real stick but the kitchen side of the door between our kitchen and the dining room. Along the edge we have    each child's growth by making a mark showing his or her     on every birthday. Over the ten years so many     pens, pencils and markers were used that the door came to be    like a painting.

    Names and dates    different hand-writing, and I can    by the script(手迹)who measured whom. An eight-year-old brother measured his three-year-old sister, a grandchild measured her grandmother, my husband measured me. At parties, when this door swings, friends stop to      the names and dates. When we ask if they would like to leave their marks, they usually had a smile.

    Many of these listed on the door are still     While some have stopped. Some is still with us only in memory. When my mother came to see our eldest daughter graduating from university, we measured her, too. It was her last visit to our home.

    We haven't decided on the new kitchen colour plan yet, but one thing is    :Whether we paint the trim curry gold, Chowning's Tavern red or Federal blue, the back of the kitchen door will be always      with lots of names and dates in different colors.

1.A. celebrated        B. explain       C. encouraged       D. congratulated

2.A. progress    B. weight                       C. height                  D. size

3.A. new        B. coloured             C. long                     D. short

4.A. simply    B. clearly                 C. unusually            D. unclearly

5.A. make      B. show                    C. give                      D. keep

6.A. tell                    B. understand        C. remind      D. think

7.A. find         B. notice                  C. read                     D. write

8.A. changing           B. adding                 C. putting       D. growing

9.A. curious            B. certain                C. ready                   D. common

10.A. white             B. red                       C. gold                     D. blue

Jenny was my grandmother’s sister and she was an amazing woman. She was born in 1901 and  【小题1】  in 2000. It was a pity that she didn’t live to celebrate（庆祝）her 100th birthday,  【小题2】  she had a good,long life.
She had already been a professional   【小题3】  before many women had jobs.She taught in Africa for many years. Then she moved to Malaysia and taught English there for a few years. At that time,people didn’t tralvel  【小题4】  a plane, so she had to travel there by ship. It took her three months  【小题5】  from England to Malaysia in those days. In 1947,she traveled by plane for the first time. This made traveling  【小题6】 easier and quicker. She continued to teach around the world until she was 75 years old.
Jenny really loved teaching and she was also good at telling stories. I always loved to hear her   【小题7】  her stories. They were  【小题8】  interesting that I would like to listen to her when I was free. It was  【小题9】  that she could remember everything even though she was so old. I think it was because she never stopped  【小题10】 .My grandmother’s sister was really an amazing woman.
【小题11】A.death             B.die                 C.died
【小题12】A.but               B.and                 C.or
【小题13】A.singer            B.teacher             C.manager
【小题14】A.on                B.at                  C.by
【小题15】A.to sail            B.sailing              C.to fly
【小题16】A.too               B.much               C.more
【小题17】A.talk to            B.talk with            C.talk about
【小题18】A.so                B.such                C.very
【小题19】A.boring            B.relaxing             C.amazing
【小题20】A.work and think     B.working and thinking   C.to work and think