Don’t Wait Until Flowers Fade

Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches (路溝) along the highway I travel daily to work.

There is one blue flower that has always my eye. I’ve noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, and the afternoon sun is too warm it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful .

This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I’ve often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look in that bed alongside wildflowers.

Everyday I drove the flowers thinking, “I’ll stop on my way home and dig them.” “Gee, I don’t want to get my good clothes ...” Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband gave me a folding shovel(鐵鍬) one year to be used for that purpose.

One day on my way home from work, I was to see that the highway department had moved the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, “Way to go, you too long. You it when you first saw them blooming this spring.”

A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor(腦瘤晚期). She is 20 years older than my husband and , because of age and distance, we haven’t been as as we all would have liked.

I couldn’t help but see the between the pretty blue flowers and the between my husband’s sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some valuable that will bloom every year for us.

And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and them to my wildflower garden

1.A．sweetB．interesting C．differentD．particular

2.A．fascinated B．struckC．caughtD．charm

3.A．forB．toC．withD．on

4.A．plantsB．flowersC．onesD．wilds

5.A．openB．main hall C．frontD．kitchen

6.A．greatB．wellC．horribleD．ugly

7.A．manyB．variousC．otherD．colorful

8.A．passedB．pastC．passD．pasted

9.A．damagedB．readyC．dirtyD．smelly

10.A．everB．onceC．neverD．even

11.A．expressed B．temporary C．unfinishedD．permanent

12.A．a(chǎn)nnoying B．saddened C．interestedD．helpless

13.A．wastedB．ignoredC．thoughtD．waited

14.A．would have done B．need have done C．should have doneD．muse have done

15.A．unconsciously B．fortunately C．unfortunately D．consciously

16.A．closeB．closelyC．closedD．near

17.A．connection B．difference C．meaningD．significance

18.A．friendship B．relationship C．supportD．relative

19.A．treesB．memories C．speciesD．roses

20.A．digB．rescueC．transmitD．transplant

 

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.B

5.D

6.A

7.C

8.B

9.C

10.D

11.A

12.B

13.D

14.C

15.C

16.A

17.A

18.B

19.B

20.D

【解析】

試題分析：作者每次從溝渠邊經(jīng)過(guò)時(shí)都會(huì)看到一種盛開(kāi)的藍(lán)色小花，每次都想停下來(lái)把花移栽到自己家中，但是從沒(méi)有真正的行動(dòng)。后來(lái)溝渠被填平了，野花不見(jiàn)了，作者才意識(shí)到有些東西錯(cuò)過(guò)了就不會(huì)再來(lái)，意識(shí)到了人生沒(méi)有等待。

1.A．甜的；B．有趣的； C．不同的；D．特別的。根據(jù)下文可知這種花總是引起作者的注意，所以從情理推測(cè)這種花是很特別的，故答案選D。

2.A．沮喪； B．襲擊，打擊；C．逮��；D．迷人。固定短語(yǔ)：catch one’s eye“引起某人注意”，故答案選C。

3.A．為了；B．到；C．帶有；D．在上面。根據(jù)前句話it blooms only in the morning hours,可知此處作者指下午的陽(yáng)光對(duì)于這種花來(lái)說(shuō)是太強(qiáng)烈了，句型：it is +adj +for sb +（to do sth） for “對(duì)于”，故答案選A。

4.A．植物；B．花朵；C．某些；D．野生。作者在上文提到了blue flower，而且下文內(nèi)容也是和這種花有關(guān)，故答案選B。

5.A．開(kāi)；B．主廳；C．前；D．廚房。根據(jù)空后內(nèi)容while doing the dishes可以判斷作者是透過(guò)廚房的窗戶可以看到這種花，故答案選D。

6.A．偉大的；B．好；C．恐懼的；D．丑陋的。作者認(rèn)為如果把那種藍(lán)花和別的花移栽到會(huì)更好看，故答案選A。

7.A．許多；B．各式各樣的；C．其他的；D．多彩的。上文提到這種漂亮的蘭花是在溝渠邊的，由此可知這是一種野花，再由空后wildflowers判斷答案選C。

8.A．經(jīng)過(guò)；B．過(guò)去；C．經(jīng)過(guò)；D．過(guò)去。從動(dòng)詞drove可知此處指作者開(kāi)車(chē)從溝渠經(jīng)過(guò)時(shí)，同時(shí)也從花的旁邊經(jīng)過(guò)，pass是動(dòng)詞，past是介詞，故答案選B。

9.A．毀壞的；B．準(zhǔn)備好的；C．臟的；D．有味的。作者一再的想去把花移栽到家中，但是卻一直沒(méi)有行動(dòng)，此處表示她的理由，所以是作者怕把衣服弄臟，故答案選C。

10.A．曾經(jīng)；B．從前；C．從不；D．甚至。根據(jù)語(yǔ)境判斷作者想去做的事情，一直沒(méi)有做到，即使丈夫把工具放到她的車(chē)上，她都沒(méi)有行動(dòng)，由此可知此處起強(qiáng)調(diào)作用，故答案選D。

11.A．明確的；B臨時(shí)的；C．沒(méi)完成的；D．永久的 。從上文內(nèi)容可知作者想把花移栽到家中，丈夫?yàn)榱怂拇蛩氵�給她提供了工具，所以目的是“明確的，明白表示的”，答案選A。

12.A．惱人的；B．突然的；C．感興趣的；D．無(wú)望的。從空后面的內(nèi)容可知作者經(jīng)常路過(guò)的溝渠被填埋了，她一直想移栽的野花也不見(jiàn)了，由此推斷作者會(huì)感到難過(guò)，答案選B。

13.A．浪費(fèi)；B．忽視；C．認(rèn)為；D．等。從上文作者的講述可知作者想移栽野花的打算一直是一拖再拖，故答案選D。

14.A．已經(jīng)做；B．有必要做過(guò)；C．本應(yīng)該做；D．肯定做過(guò)。根據(jù)語(yǔ)境判斷這是作者的一種假設(shè)，表示對(duì)過(guò)去的后悔，遺憾，should have done“本該做但是沒(méi)做”，故答案選C。

15.A．不自覺(jué)地；B．幸運(yùn)地；C．不幸地；D．自覺(jué)地。從后句的原因狀語(yǔ)從句可知作者因?yàn)榫嚯x和年齡的差距和丈夫的姐姐關(guān)系不是很密切，由此判斷答案選C。

16.A．關(guān)，近；B．近的；C．關(guān)著的；D．附近的。根據(jù)語(yǔ)境可知此處指關(guān)系的密切，close“（關(guān)系）密切的，”closely“密切地（觀察，注視）”；closed“關(guān)著的”；near “（距離）近的”，故答案選A。

17.A．聯(lián)系；B．不同；C．意思；D．意義。根據(jù)語(yǔ)境可以推斷作者從野花的失去聯(lián)想到了丈夫姐姐的情況，想到了他們之間的某種聯(lián)系，他們共同之處都是在身邊的時(shí)候人們沒(méi)有去珍惜，故答案選A。

18.A．友誼； B．關(guān)系；C．支持；D．親戚。從詞義角度可知此處指的是丈夫的姐姐和作者與丈夫之間的關(guān)系，故答案選B。

19.A．樹(shù)；B．記憶；C．種類(lèi)；D．玫瑰。野花沒(méi)有了，只剩下作者腦海中的模樣；姐姐也要離去了，也將成為記憶的一部分，所以在此作者抒發(fā)自己的感概：上帝曾經(jīng)給予過(guò)我們時(shí)間去種植下美好的記憶，為得是將來(lái)的回憶，答案選B

20.A．挖；B．解救；C．傳送；D．移植。根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容可知作者一直都想把花移栽到自己家中，所以如果再給她機(jī)會(huì)看到這種花的時(shí)候，她肯定會(huì)去那樣做，故答案選D。

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