It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll   1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t   3    my waitress’ salary to buy.

But what   4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were   5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I   6    I had done for them. I just hoped they   7  .

As I walked into the   8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9    a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It   11  :

She took a day off from her busy   12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early   13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to   16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy    17    one in the morning…

   It took me long enough to   18    it, but I finally know who the   19    hero is. Mom, I love you!

   And suddenly, it was a   20    Mother’s Day, after all.

1. A. admit                 B. adopt                    C. deny                    D. refuse

2. A. intended             B. liked                      C. tended                     D. hesitated

3. A. stress                B. spare                     C. strengthen                   D. spend

4. A. poor                  B. great                     C. faithless                   D. pretty

5. A. merely               B. usually                  C. never                       D. often

6. A. wished              B. hoped                 C. expected                  D. desired

7. A. supported           B. understood             C. approved                 D. disgusted

8. A. 1iving-room         B. kitchen                  C. bed loom                 D. study

9. A. including            B. containing             C. possessing                   D. pinning

10. A. handwriting      B. description             C. tone                        D. scratch

11. A. wrote               B. recorded                C. memorized               D. read

12. A. event               B. content             C. schedule                  D. circumstance

13. A. or                    B. for                        C. but                          D. so

14. A. At                    B. In                         C. On                          D. By

15. A. impressed        B. printed                      C. presented                 D. pressed

16. A. buy                 B. abandon                C. get                          D. swap

17. A. before              B. until                      C. after                        D. when

18. A. see                         B. hear                      C. realize                     D. tell

19. A. actual              B. true                       C. imaginary             D. visual

20. A. sad                  B. bitter                     C. happy                      D. exciting

1--  20      ACBBC   ABBBA   DCDCB   CBCBC  


解析:

1. A  該句句意為“但我承認(rèn)2000年那個星期天對我而言苦樂參半!

2. C  作為單身母親,我總是不由自主想到自己的缺點(diǎn)。tend to do意為“傾向于”。

3. B  服務(wù)員收入微薄,孩子們想要的很多東西我都不能勻出錢去買。share勻出。

4. B  從下文內(nèi)容可知,孩子們給母親過了一個美好的母親節(jié),他們是偉大的孩子。

5. C  該句句意為“他們從不無理地抱怨!

6. A  但作為母親,有多少事情我想為他們做卻做不到啊。wish后面的賓語從句用虛擬語氣,表示難以實(shí)現(xiàn)的愿望。

7. B  我只是希望孩子們能夠理解(我的無奈)。

8. B  從后面的to start breakfast可知,我悄悄走進(jìn)廚房。

9. B  花瓶里裝著一打紅玫瑰,表示容器中裝有什么東西,只能用contain。

10. A  從下文內(nèi)容可知,18歲的兒子給母親寫了一封短信,所以此處指的是字跡。

11. D  該句句意為“短信的內(nèi)容是”,read在此處意為“內(nèi)容如下”。

12. C  母親的時間表安排的很滿,但還是請了一天假帶兒子去見兒子心目中的英雄。

13. D  根據(jù)句意可知上下文之間是因果關(guān)系,所以用并列連詞so。

14. C  on與名詞或動名詞連用,表示“一……就……”。

15. B  T恤衫上印著兒子崇拜的英雄的形象。

16. C  比賽后,兒子當(dāng)然要索取英雄的簽名。

17. B  母親一直陪伴著兒子直到凌晨一點(diǎn)鐘。until引導(dǎo)時間狀語。

18. C  該句句意為“我過了很長時間才意識到,誰是真正的英雄!

19. B  true真正的;actual實(shí)際的;imaginary想象的;visual視覺的。

20. C  懂事的兒女讓母親感到欣慰,自然這是一個快樂的母親節(jié)

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