Question

    Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia(栀子花)was sent to my house. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped trying to find out the sender's name and was just pleased with the beautiful flower, in soft pink paper.

I couldn't stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming(幻想)about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She'd ask me if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates. Perhaps it was the old man who I once helped. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met.

A month before my high school graduation(毕业),my father died. I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my coming graduation dance, and I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.

My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.

1.The writer received ________ on her birthday since she was 11.

A.a white gardenia B.a card C.a card and soft pink paper

2.The writer was very ________when she was imagining who sent the flower.

A.happy B.sad C.worried

3.It can be inferred(推断)from the passage that ________.

A.the writer didn't get a new dress for the dance

B.the writer probably joined in the graduation dance

C.the writer's father died ten years earlier than her mother

4.The writer got the gardenias from ________ on her birthdays.

A.the old man B.the boy C.her mother

5.The passage mainly talks about ________.

A.what a gardenia meant

B.what a girl dreamed about

C.how a mother loved her children

Answer

1.A

2.A

3.B

4.C

5.C

【解析】

本文主要描述了母亲对作者的爱，通过事例阐述了母亲如何爱孩子的。

1.

细节理解题。根据文中“Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia(栀子花)was sent to my house.”可知，作者自从十一岁以来生日上会收到一束栀子花。 故选A。

2.

细节理解题。根据文中“I couldn’t stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming(幻想)about the sender.”可知，作者在想是谁送的花时非常高兴。故选A。

3.

推理判断题。根据文中“My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.”可以推断出，作者的妈妈可能会让作者参加毕业聚会，她想让她的孩子感受到爱，希望孩子像栀子花一样：可爱、坚强、完美。故选B。

4.

细节理解题。根据文中“My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.”可知，作者的妈妈去世后，就没再收到栀子花，说明生日收到的栀子花是他妈妈送的。故选C。

5.

主旨大意题。根据整个文章的理解可知，本文主要描述了母亲对作者的爱，阐述了母亲如何爱孩子的。所以how a mother loved her children为本文题目最合适。故选C。