Question

完形填空 (共15小題，每小題2分，滿分30分)

閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的A、B、C、D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (梔子花) was     1     to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always     2     -- it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just     3     in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower lying in soft pink paper.

But I never stopped     4     who the giver might be. My mother     5      to these imaginations. She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing     6     . I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had     7     me even though I didn’t know him.

One month before my high-school graduation, my father died. My feelings      8      from sorrow to fear and     9    : my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely     10     in my coming graduation, the senior-class play and the ball. But my mother would not hear of my losing any of those things. Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress, but it was the     11     size. When my father died, I forgot about the dress.

The day before my ball, I found that dress-- in the right size—hanging over the living room sofa. It was     12      to me so lovingly. I didn’t     13     if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel     14    , filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of     15   .

My mother died ten days after I was married. The following year the gardenia stopped coming.

1. A. given         B. delivered            C. taken            D. brought

2. A. useful            B. helpful          C. in vain      D. hopeful

3. A. delighted     B. pleasant         C. pleasing     D. satisfied

4. A. considering       B. remembering      C. imagining        D. recalling

5. A. referred      B. led              C. preferred        D. contributed

6. A. appreciation  B. honor            C. grateful     D. respect

7. A. observed      B. watched          C. noticed      D. hated

8. A. ranged            B. differed         C. suffered     D. judged

9. A. shock         B. happiness            C. depressing   D. anger

10. A. uninterested B. interested           C. unhappy      D. disappointing

11. A. wrong            B. false                C. proper       D. right

12. A. provided     B. presented            C. introduced   D. awarded

13. A. doubt            B. wonder           C. desire       D. care

14. A. loving           B. loved                C. respected        D. honored

15. A. trouble      B. despair          C. problem      D. sorrow

Answer 1

 1B  2C  3A  4C  5D 

6A  7C  8A  9D  10A  

 11A  12B  13D  14B  15D

解析:

1. B. 梔子花被送到我家。

2. C. 給花店打電話總是無濟(jì)于事（in vain）。

3. A. delighted意為“高興的”。自己沉陷于這束發(fā)出芳香的花中。

4. C. 本段第二句的imagine對本選項(xiàng)有提示作用。

5. D.  contribute to 有“促成”之意，本句表明媽媽幫助我去想象。

6. A.  appreciation 因?yàn)樽隽松剖�，受到別人的感激。

7. C.  notice sb. 意為“關(guān)注某人”。

8. A.  range from …to …意為“從……到……變化。

9. D. 父親錯過了我人生中最重要的事情，不能分享我的幸福，使我感到有一點(diǎn)兒生氣。

10. A. 父親的去世使我對即將到來的畢業(yè)不感興趣。

11. A. 與后文的“in the right size”對應(yīng)。

12. B. be presented 意為“被呈現(xiàn)”。

13. D. care意為“在乎”。

14. B. 母親希望她的女兒能感受到愛。

15. D. 即使面對父親剛剛?cè)ナ赖谋�痛�?/p>