Question

I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton train station, back when the trains still ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to   1   the train that would take me to Boston and college. I was eager （熱切的） to go. College, with its   2   and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It   3   me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.

For eighteen years, we had never had a（n）   4   to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me,   5   I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He   6   me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were   7   it.

The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my   8   from his, and now I was learning it. The train   9   and I boarded （登上） it. My father looked smaller from the train. We   10   goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.

1. A. return                   B. catch                C. design               D. watch

2. A. habits                   B. license               C. courses             D. advertisements

3. A. shocked               B. supposed           C. helped               D. encouraged

4. A. time                            B. luck                  C. chance                     D. interest

5. A. because                B. though                     C. so                     D. and

6. A. taught                  B. beat                  C. forgot               D. loved

7. A. saying                  B. knowing            C. creating             D. describing

8. A. money                  B. time                  C. present              D. life

9. A. continued             B. broke                C. arrived                     D. left

10. A. reached                     B. waved               C. talked                D. cheered

Answer 1

1—5  BCACB        6—10  DADCB