“Tell me what you were like when you were my age,” I asked my mother one afternoon. She looked up, 21 at my question. After a long time she answered, “I was 22 like you. Then, there was only one career for girls — being a hard-working 23. To tell the truth, it is 24 for me to tell you that I 25 my mother when I was growing up. I did so much for her. Besides doing lots of housework, every night I would go into my parents’ bedroom, and wash their feet with warm water. Not once did my mother ever said, ‘thank you’."
I stared out of the window, remembering 26 I grew up, always wanting to hear a word of 27 from her, but getting only the rule and 28 I could never live up to (做到). I remembered the years when she 29 me to get up at six every morning and cook breakfast for the family before leaving for school. Least of all, I remembered the times she’d 30 me to other girls who were as old as me and found me useless.
“Nothing was ever 31 enough for my mother,’’ continued my mother, “ but now I know she did 32 me, even if she never said so. I told you this just for a 33. Yes, I love all my children, but you are my first child, the first in everything to me. I have been very strict and hard on you, but I 34 you in the only way I knew. I am 35 proud of you.”
1.
A.excited |
B.angry |
C.disappointed |
D.surprised |
2.
A.ever |
B.mostly |
C.never |
D.once |
3.
A.woman |
B.worker |
C.wife |
D.student |
4.
A.comfortable |
B.proud |
C.shameful |
D.silly |
5.
A.hated |
B.loved |
C.respected |
D.forgave |
6.
A.where |
B.how |
C.before |
D.when |
7.
A.honesty |
B.use |
C.importance |
D.praise |
8.
A.promise |
B.order |
C.expectation |
D.curiosity |
9.
A.made |
B.encouraged |
C.forced |
D.advised |
10.
A.compared |
B.matched |
C.explained |
D.introduced |
11.
A.interesting |
B.bad |
C.modern |
D.good |
12.
A.support |
B.love |
C.honour |
D.ignore |
13.
A.reason |
B.explanation |
C.excuse |
D.consideration |
14.
A.helped |
B.taught |
C.raised |
D.affected |
15.
A.slightly |
B.generally |
C.actually |
D.gradually |
was most important to her, she told me, was her family.
A.It |
B.This |
C.What |
D.As |
I regret ______ that we have no news for you.
A.to say |
B.saying |
C.to have said |
D.having said |
When he saw a little boy ______ in the river, he took off his shirt and jumped into the water.
A.struggles |
B.struggling |
C.to struggle |
D.struggle |
—What do you think of the book?
—Oh, excellent. It’ s worth ______ a second time.
A.to read |
B.to be read |
C.reading |
D.being read |
Don’t ________ women. They are as important as men for the development of society.
A.look up to |
B.look down upon |
C.look out for |
D.look forward to |