My grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the time they met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word “shmily” in a surprise place for the other to find.
“Shmily” was written in the steam left on the mirror after a hot shower, where it would reappear bath after bath. At one point, my grandmother even opened an entire roll of toilet paper to leave “shmily” on the very last sheet. Little notes with “shmily” scribbled (潦草地寫) hurriedly were found on dashboards (儀表板) and car seats, or taped to steering wheels.
It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate my grandparents’ game. Skepticism (懷疑態(tài)度) had kept me from believing in true love — one that is pure and lasting. However, I never doubted my grandparents’ relationship. They had love down pat. It was more than their flirtatious (愛調(diào)戲的) little games; it was a way of life. Their relationship was based on devotion and passionate love.
Grandma and Grandpa held hands every chance they could. They stole kisses as they bumped into each other in their tiny kitchen. They finished each other’s sentences and shared the daily crossword puzzle and word jumble. My grandma whispered to me about how cute my grandpa was, how handsome and old he had grown to be. She claimed that she really knew “how to pick ‘em.”
But there came a dark cloud into my grandparents’ life: when my grandmother got breast cancer. Gradually it took over the whole of her body. One day, what we all dreaded finally happened. Grandma was gone.
“Shmily.” It was scrawled in yellow on the pink ribbons of my grandmother’s funeral bouquet (花束). The family came forward and gathered around Grandma one last time. Grandpa stepped up to my grandmother’s casket (棺) and, taking a shaky breath, he began to sing to her. Through his tears and sadness, the song came, a deep and throaty lullaby (催眠曲,). Shaking with my own sorrow, I would never forget that moment.
S-h-m-i-l-y: See How Much I Love You.
小題1:The point of the article is to ________.
A．give advice on how to keep love fresh
B．explain to readers the meaning of “shmily”
C．show the true love between the writer’s grandparents
D．express how much the writer loved her grandparents
小題2:What is the function of the second paragraph?
A．To support the first paragraph.B．To introduce the next paragraph.
C．To give the main idea of the article.D．To make the article more interesting.
小題3:The author’s grandmother ________.
A．used to kiss her grandfather in secret
B．died from breast cancer, which spread all over
C．played crossword puzzle daily with her grandfather
D．considered her grandfather old and careless
小題4:What is the author’s attitude toward her grandparents’ love?
A．She doubts whether it was true love.
B．She finds their way of expressing love strange.
C．She admires their romantic and passionate love.
D．She thinks she will never be able to love like that.

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:C
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C. they should build a parent-child relationship based on love and trust
D. they should believe that children have the abilities to solve their own problems

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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

After years of study, I have known there are only two types of people in this world: those who get to the airport early and those who arrive when the plane is about to take off.
If there were any justice（公正）in this world, early-airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing. And late-airport people would be punished. But early-airport people get ulcers（潰瘍）, heart attacks and bite their fingernails to the bone. Late-airport people almost don’t realize they are flying.
A guy of that kind once said, “Don’t hurry. If you miss your flight, it’s because God doesn’t want you to go.” This is clearly a guy who is never going to get an ulcer.
Early-airport people suffer another “name”. They are called exactly what they are -wimps（窩囊廢）. I know. I was an early-airport person for years. “My baggage will get on the plane first,” I told myself. Indeed it would, which made it the last baggage they took off the plane after landing.
Another strange thing: No matter how early I showed up, I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat. I thought it was a trick. I thought there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said: “Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today? If he is , give me his seat.”
After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead, I have learned another fact about early-airport people and late –airport people:
They always marry each other.
小題1:We can learn from the passage that     .
A．late-airport persons are often nervous
B．early-airport persons are always at ease during the flight
C．early-airport persons get their baggage first after the landing
D．late-airport persons always take things easy
小題2: Paragraph 5 mainly wants to tell us that      .
A．someone always plays tricks on the writer
B．the airlines usually fool passengers
C．early-airport persons always can’t get good seats
D．the service of airlines is very bad
小題3:This passage is written in order to     .
A．give readers tips about taking a plane
B．offer suggestions about having a good plane trip
C．express the writer’s anxiety about taking a plane
D．show people’s different attitudes toward catching planes
小題4: It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is     .
A．a(chǎn)n early-airport womanB．a(chǎn) late-airport woman
C．a(chǎn) hot-tempered womanD．a(chǎn) sensitive woman

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