79 Mayfair Road
Plumton, Kent
October 10th
Dear Rosemary,
I was very glad to get your letter this morning. I really ought to have written to you---it was my turn, I know----but I have been terribly busy. The children seem to take up all my time. I am thinking of sending Ann to a nursery school. She’ll be four next month. Baby has just started to walk and doesn’t give me a moment’s peace. But you know what it is like! How are all your children? I’m sure they love living in the country.
I’m afraid we can’t come over to see you next Sunday, as you suggest. Tom’s mother is coming to spend the day with us. What about the Sunday after that----- the twenty-second? We are free that day and should love to come. We’re longing to see your house.
Let me know, then, if the Sunday after next suits you. May we come for lunch? We’d like to leave fairly early in the evening to avoid the heavy traffic on the roads.
Love from us all,
Edna
1. Edna can not see Rosemary the following Sunday because_____.
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A．she is afraid of the traffic |
B．Tom’s mother is coming to see them that day |
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C．she prefers to come on 22nd |
D．she is terribly busy with the children |
2.What doesn’t give Edna a moment’s peace?
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A．That she has been thinking of sending Ann to a nursery school |
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B．That Tom’s mother will come soon |
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C．That she has been thinking of going to see Rosemary’s new house |
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D．That her baby has just started to walk |
3.We can infer from the letter that Tom is_________.
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A．Edna’s husband |
B．Edna’s son |
C．Edna’s neighbor |
D．Edna’s father |
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
——Dr. Karl Menninger
I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance company. I told him 41 that the main reason why I was 42 with them was my need to keep my family in Boston. My wife of 26 years old had recently died of a heart attack . A(n) 43 in Boston would also help me reduce some of the pain of the loss. Bruce ,the interviewer ,was politely sympathetic, and didn’t probe(探查) any 44 .He acknowledged my loss and ,with great respect ,moved on to another 45 .
After the next 46 of interview , Bruce took me to lunch with another manager .Then he asked me to take a 47 with him. He told me that he , 48 , had lost his wife .And he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had 49 the same pain 50 I had , a pain that was almost 51 to explain to someone who had not 52 a loved 53 . He offered his business card and home phone number and 54 that, if I needed help or just wanted someone to 55 , I should feel 56 to give him a call. No matter whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I 57 needed any help.
From that one act of kindness, when he had no idea 58 we would see each other again, he helped me 59 one of life’s greatest losses. He turned the normally 60 business interview process into an act of caring and support for another person in a time of need.
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—Mum, may I go out to play football for a while?
—______. You need some exercise.
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A．Never mind |
B．You’ve got it |
C．Go ahead |
D．It’s your turn |
With her anger ______, the thought of punishing him arose in her mind.
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A．disappearing |
B．adding |
C．growing |
D．boiling |
Many young people leave their hometown to seek their _______ in big cities.
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A．life |
B．fortune |
C．gold |
D．money |
—Did you have a good time at the party?
—_______ We all enjoyed it so much that it lasted until midnight.
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A．Terrible! |
B．Goodness! |
C．Absolutely! |
D．Boring! |
