Question

One evening, sitting at the window sewing, my mother called me, “Come here,” she said. “  41  . ” She held my head   42   her stomach, and after a puzzled moment I felt a   43   foot drumming on my cheek. “You see?” she said, “It’s alive. You can   44   it, can’t you?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without trouble. It was as good as a place for the baby to be as any other and I never   45   about why it got in nor how it would finally get out.

A baby would come? I   46    noticed. That there were soon to be   47    of us would not make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe.   48  , certainly not a baby, could threaten (威脅) that.

  49  ,I was wrong. I soon found that things had    50   a great deal. I had never been the 51  . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the   52  . My sister had certain 53   because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much   54   boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that    55   came to me.

As he grew, it became    56   that my brother had been the center of everything. People    57   when they saw him. He made them happy   58   by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second   59  . He was so charming that he was immediately loveable. Later he also turned out to be   60  , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.

41． A. Look                    B. See                    C. Listen                   D. Stop

42． A. against    B. into           C. with                 D. over

43． A. strong      B. hard          C. soft           D. small

44． A. believe            B. feel           C. notice       D. touch

45． A. worried           B. argued      C. regretted        D. doubted

46． A. hardly      B. certainly    C. possibly          D. willingly

47． A. two    B. three         C. four          D. five

48． A. Anything         B. Something       C. Nothing            D. Everything

49． A. Although  B. Therefore C. However          D. Moreover

50． A. improved        B. changed          C. increased        D damaged

51． A. oldest      B. youngest         C. cleverest         D. dearest

52． A. family       B. house       C. middle             D. trouble

53． A. manners         B. knowledge           C. opinions            D rights

54． A. admired          B. blamed            C. hated               D. loved

55． A. almost      B. never C. nearly       D. always

56． A. strange    B. obvious     C. serious            D. special

57． A. smiled      B. screamed        C. cried         D. whispered

58． A. still           B. almost     C. also          D. just

59． A. look                B. smile       C. care          D. comfort

60． A. ordinary          B. perfect      C. clever             D. similar

Answer 1

41—45 CADBD                46—50 ABCCB       51—55 ACDDB         56—60 BADAC