Question

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

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.D

5.B

6.A

7.C

8.D

9.B

10.A

【解析】

试题分析：这篇文章主要讲述了我家的门上有个“计量尺”，每个生日我们把家人的身高和日期用不同的笔写在上面。我们也会记录亲戚朋友的身高。现在我们家要重新粉刷厨房，但这扇门和这些标记讲永远保持不变。

1.考查动词与语境理解。句意：我们庆祝每个小孩的成长。A庆祝；B解释;C鼓励；D祝贺，恭喜；A符合题意。

2.考查名词与语境理解。句意：每个生日的时候，我们都会通过标记他们的身高来庆祝他们的成长，A进步；B体重；C身高；D尺寸，C符合语意。

3.考查形容词与语境理解。结合后文like a painting看起来像副画，可知此句为：在过去的十年里，各种颜色的钢笔，铅笔，标记笔做了记号，故选B，各种颜色的。

4.考查副词与语境理解。句意：这扇门看起来就像副暗淡的画.A简单的；B清楚的；C显著的；D暗淡的，结合前文over the ten years过去10年了，所以D更符合语意。

5.考查动词与语境理解。句意：名字和日期展现了不同的笔迹。A制造；B展现；C给；D保持，B符合语境。

6.考查动词与语境理解。句意：我可以从笔迹分辨是谁帮谁测量的。A告诉，分辨；B明白；C提醒，主语通常是物；D想，故选A。

7.考查动词与语境理解。句意：在派对上，当门旋转时，朋友们会停下来注意看这些名字和日期。Stop to do 停下来去做……,A发现；B注意；C阅读；D写，B符合语境。

8.考查动词与语境理解。结合后文While some have stopped. 有些已经停止；从而判断此句为：很多的身高还在成长。与后文形成对比，故选D。

9.考查形容词与语境理解。结合前后文，可知此句为：我们还没决定厨房的粉刷，但有一件事是确定的，故选B,确定的。

10.考查形容词与语境理解。结合前后文，可知此句为：不管我们把厨房刷成咖喱色，红色，蓝色还是黑色，这门将永远保持白色，上面记录着不同颜色的名字和日期，故选A。

考点：故事类短文。