Question

Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years. She would   21 down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead. I don’t remember when it first started  22 me-her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt work-worn and rough  23 my young skin. Finally , one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that any more-your hands are too rough!” she made no  24 and left quietly. But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her  25 .

With the passing years, my   26 returned to that night time after time. By then I   27 my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss. Sometimes the incident seemed very  28 , sometimes far away, but always it was  29 in the back of my mind.

The years have passed, and I’m not a little girl any more. Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once  30 to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.

Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives  31 . One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself  32 to her house to spend the night with her. As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to  33 the hair from my forehead. Then a   34 , ever so gently , touched my forehead. I burst into tears.

In my memory, thousands of times, I   35 the night my young voice complained. Catching Mom’s hand in hand, I told her how  36 I was for that night. I thought she’d remember  37 I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had already forgotten and   38 long ago.

That night, I fell asleep with a new  39 for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was   40 to be found.

1.                A．lie             B．bend           C．look D．fall

2.                A．annoying       B．astonishing      C．delighting D．disappointing

3.                A．along          B．above          C．against   D．aside

4.                A．reply          B．promise        C．request   D．agreement

5.                A．pity            B．sadness         C．apology   D．love

6.                A．views          B．opinions        C．spirits    D．thoughts

7.                A．missed         B．forgot          C．held D．shook

8.                A．strange         B．close           C．serious   D．common

9.                A．stressed        B．existed         C．hidden   D．exposed

10.               A．expected       B．changed        C．reminded  D．complained

11.               A．yet            B．away           C．alone D．long

12.               A．drawn         B．carried         C．moved    D．stayed

13.               A．cut            B．wash           C．brush D．take

14.               A．tear           B．kiss            C．press D．hand

15.               A．returned       B．remembered    C．realized   D．recalled

16.               A．sorry          B．happy          C．angry D．nervous

17.               A．when          B．how           C．why  D．as

18.               A．disappeared     B．forgiven        C．apologized D．abandoned

19.               A．imagination     B．inspiration      C．decoration D．appreciation

20.               A．still            B．soon           C．nowhere  D．anyhow

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.A

5.D

6.D

7.A

8.B

9.C

10.D

11.C

12.A

13.C

14.B

15.D

16.A

17.D

18.B

19.D

20.C

【解析】

试题分析：

1.B  bent down 意即：母亲在床边俯身，

2. A “when it first started annoying me…” 句中的it指母亲捋我头发这事，母亲这一举动使我不高兴。

3.C 母亲的手抚摸我，我感到粗糙。against 有 touching 之意。

4.A  我冲母亲叫，她没回应。这里用reply  promise : 诺言；request: 要求；agreement: 同意

5. D 根据上下文，这里的意思是：母亲表达的是一种爱。

6.D 我几年之后又想到那晚的情景，think的名词是thoughts；feelings: 感情，心情，

7.A  我怀念母亲的手。missed: 想念，惦记

8. B 儿时发生的那件事在我的记忆中时而近时而远，但总是内心挥之不去的愧疚。close与后文的far away有关。

9.C 句中的it指“愧疚”，它始终在我心中。be hidden in 隐藏在……; exist是不及物动词搭配不对

10.B  “I once changed to be so rough”是定语从句修饰hands, 这里的意思是：我使母亲的手变得粗糙，因为母亲为我操劳了许多。

11.C 父亲去世后，母亲单独生活。后文有…to her house to spend the night with her

12.A drawn to her house: 自己被母爱所“吸引”

13. C 把挡住额头的头发梳了过去。 brush one’s hair：梳头发

14.B 母亲吻了我。

15.D recall：回忆；returned：返回；归还； remembered：记住； realized：意识到。I recalled the night.. 意即：I thought of the night…

16.A sorry一词与愧疚有关。其余的选项与上下文意思不符。

17.D as I did是一个表方式的状语，像我一样记得那事。

18.B forgotten and forgiven说的是母亲忘了，原谅了我。. abandoned：被放弃[扔弃，遗弃]了的。

19. D 这里说的是作者对母亲的手产生了一种新的“感激”

20.C 母女情深，这时我感到得到了母爱的包容，因而我的愧疚荡然无存。

考点：考查情感类短文