完型填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上涂黑。
“Never say die'' was my mother's motto．No matter how tough the life was, she always had
36 in the face of struggle and change．
My mother , born in the late 1920s,
37 no education．Her mother, whom she loved dearly , died when she was 12 years old．Her father remarried,
38 he stepmother was
39 to her．As a result, my mother was always kept busy doing ail kinds of household
40 ,varying from feeding scores of tame birds to
_41 her stepbrothers "Never say die" she
42 __say to herself．
After marrying my father , she
43 my grandparents as her own parents．It was a Lime when China was faced with a severe
44 of food and my family was no
45 ．There was a
46 in my family that the best food went to the old and she was always the last to have her meal．At one time , there wasn't a grain left at home, and the whole family got into a
_47 "Never say die" said my mother, as she often did in such cases- She, together with my elder sisters—one 8 years old and the other 11, went begging until the
48 picked up．My father was once
49_ to drinking．My mother, on the one hand , tried hard to
50 him to quit drinking; on the other hand, every time my father was heavily drunk; she would feed two thermos bottles of boiled water to him ,using the mouth-to-mouth way．
Poor as my family was my parents
51 to send my sisters to school, which was absolutely
52 in my home village then．Now my sisters have both retired as primary school teachers．Then my mother devoted herfelf entirely to
53 her grandchildren, among whom are now two university students, a soldier, an engineer, a bank c’erk and a civil servant.
Devoted to the family, she is deeply respected and loved by her children and grandchildren. Every year a family get-together takes place on her birthday when the whole family
54 being blessed with such a great mother. “Never say die” is a
55 gift she left for her off springs.
| 小題1: | | A．energy | B．strength | C．power | D．force |
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| 小題2: | | A．received | B．a(chǎn)ccepted | C．gave | D．took |
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| 小題4: | | A．cruel | B．strict | C．hard | D．particular |
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| 小題5: | | A．events | B．incidents | C．a(chǎn)ffairs | D．a(chǎn)ccidents |
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| 小題6: | | A．looking after | B．looking for | C．looking into | D．looking up |
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| 小題7: | | A．would | B．could | C．should | D．might |
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| 小題8: | | A．considered | B．regarded | C．took | D．treated |
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| 小題9: | | A．short | B．lacking | C．lack | D．lacked |
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| 小題10: | | A．reception | B．expectation | C．explosion | D．exception |
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| 小題11: | | A．tradition | B．habit | C．custom | D．practice |
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| 小題12: | | A．trouble | B．panic | C．puzzle | D．pain |
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| 小題13: | | A．condition | B．situation | C．occasion | D．cii5e |
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| 小題14: | | A．a(chǎn)ddicted | B．devoted | C．a(chǎn)ccustomed | D．used |
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| 小題15: | | A．a(chǎn)dvise | B．suggest | C．talk | D．convince |
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| 小題16: | | A．succeeded | B．managed | C．tried | D．a(chǎn)ttempted |
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| 小題17: | | A．uneasy | B．unfit | C．unusual | D．universal |
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| 小題18: | | A．bringing up | B．raising | C．supporting | D．feeding |
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| 小題19: | | A．understand | B．enjoy | C．imagine | D．a(chǎn)ppreciate |
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| 小題20: | | A．worthless | B．priceless | C．endless | D．penniless |
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w Kershaw in his sports car one night, because he was speeding in the street of the town. The young man was very drunk. He knew he was in trouble, so he decided to make fun of them. He was a law-student at the university, so he knew the law very well, better than most people. 
