friends were all __1__ of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday.When they __2__
that Black Wednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought __3__
for the performance.However, at the last minute, one of the friends couldn"t go, so my
brother __4__ me the ticket.I was really __5__!
I remember the buzz (嘈杂声) of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our
__6__.After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became __7__.I could
barely make out the stage in the __8__.We waited.Then there was a roar from the crowd,
like an explosion, as the first members of the band __9__ the stage.My brother leaned
over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn"t __10__ what he was saying.The first
song was already starting and the music was as __11__ as a jet engine.I
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the drum beats and the bass notes in my stomach.
I can"t recall any of the songs that the band played.I just __13__ that I really enjoyed
the show and didn"t want it to __14__.But in the end, after three encores (加演), the show
finished.We left the __15__ and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement.I felt a little dizzy,
as if I had just __16__ from a long sleep.My ears were still __17__ with the beat of the
last song.
After the __18__, I
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into other kinds of music.Once in a while, __19__, I listen to one of their songs and __20__
I"m back at that first show.
( )2.A.guessed
( )3.A.flowers
( )4.A.booked
( )5.A.relaxed
( )6.A.seats
( )7.A.comfortable
( )8.A.silence
( )9.A.fell upon
( )10.A.forget
( )11.A.loud
( )12.A.feel
( )13.A.realize
( )14.A.continue
( )15.A.party
( )16.A.escaped
( )17.A.aching
( )18.A.competition
( )19.A.though
( )20.A.decide
B.discovered
B.drinks
B.offered
B.embarrassed
B.entrance
B.quiet
B.noise
B.got through
B.hear
B.hard
B.touch
B.understand
B.delay
B.theatre
B.traveled
B.burning
B.performance
B.otherwise
B.regret
C.thought
C.clothes
C.returned
C.excited
C.spots
C.serious
C.darkness
C.broke into
C.repeat
C.sweet
C.enjoy
C.believe
C.finish
C.opera
C.benefited
C.ringing
C.interview
C.instead
C.conclude
D.predicted
D.tickets
D.found
D.encouraged
D.space
D.nervous
D.smoke
D.stepped onto
D.bear
D.fast
D.digest
D.remember
D.change
D.stage
D.woken
D.rolling
D.celebration
D.besides
D.imagine
and businesswoman.When Mum __1__ in October 2007, I was a cook.In December
that year, while I was working for a wedding, a pearl necklace Mum had left me __2__.
I was distraught (忧心如焚的).Some days later,I was __3__ that a guy who was
working with us that day could probably have made a fortune__4__ the necklace he
found.__5__, he returned it.Hearing how I"d __6__ Mum for six months before her
death, he said,"Christmas is going to be __7__ -why not go out to the Alps for a couple
of weeks?"
I came to Morzaine, a small, friendly village in the Alps and __8__ fell in love with it.
What was __9__ to be a stopgap(权宜之计) trip turned into a new life.I kept travelling
between London and here and felt __10__ than I had in months.In December 2008, I
was __11__ as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was travelling here.We fell in love.In the beginning, I
didn"t want to discuss __12__, because the sadness of losing Mum __13__ felt great.Paul
understood that and never __14__ me but, by summer, we got married.A year later, we
used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mum"s house, to build our own __15__.
W
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around memories from our lives.There are also styles to remind me of Mum-a tiny chair
which __17__ be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life and Mum __18__ naturally part of it, ___19__ there"s
no way we would be here if it wasn"t for the __20__ she gave me.I know she"s here in
spirit, keeping an eye on us.
( )2.A.burned
( )3.A.shown
( )4.A.hiding
( )5.A.Luckily
( )6.A.nursed
( )7.A.long
( )8.A.suddenly
( )9.A.said
( )10.A.smarter
( )11.A.honoured
( )12.A.travel
( )13.A.recently
( )14.A.left
( )15.A.hotel
( )16.A.homely
( )17.A.ought to
( )18.A.takes
( )19.A.unless
( )20.A.money
B.disappeared
B.comforted
B.stealing
B.Naturally
B.cured
B.hard
B.finally
B.proved
B.higher
B.hired
B.business
B.once
B.pushed
B.restaurant
B.lively
B.used to
B.keeps
B.while
B.chair
C.broke
C.persuaded
C.selling
C.Surely
C.missed
C.merry
C.nearly
C.supposed
C.firmer
C.regarded
C.children
C.still
C.surprised
C.home
C.motherly
C.might
C.looks
C.because
C.house
D.dropped
D.told
D.wearing
D.Hopefully
D.guarded
D.free
D.immediately
D.judged
D.lighter
D.trained
D.marriage
D.firstly
D.interrupted
D.shop
D.friendly
D.could
D.feels
D.though
D.necklace
When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our
doorstep.His name was Mr Basille.He wore a white cap and drove a white truck.As a 5yearold boy, I
couldn"t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt.He noticed this one day during a delivery and
gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk.There was cheese, eggs and so on.If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note"Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery"and place it in the box
along with the empty bottles.And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.
All of this was about more than convenience.There existed a close relationship between families and
their milkmen.Mr Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn"t freeze.And I remember Mr Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today.Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete.Besides, milk
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been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the count
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telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
A. to show his magical power
B. to pay for the delivery
C. to satisfy his curiosity
D. to please his mother
2. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy"s house?
A. He wanted to have tea there.
B. He was a respectable person.
C. He was treated as a family member.
D. He was fully trusted by the family.
3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?
A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.
B. It has been driven out of the market.
C. Its service is getting poor.
D. It is forbidden by law.
4. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?
A. He missed the good old days.
B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.
C. He needed it for his milk bottles.
D. He planted flowers in it.
the closet (衣橱)?"Jessica asked."A skeleton in the closet?" her mother paused thoughtfully.
"Well, it"s something that you would rather not have anyone else know about.For example,
if in the past, someone in Dad"s family had been arrested for stealing a horse, it would be"a
skeleton in his family"s closet".He really wouldn"t want any neighbor to know about it."
"Why pick on my family?" Jessica"s father said with anger."Your family history isn"t so
good, you know.Wasn"t your greatgreatgrandfathe
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Australia for his crimes?""Yes, but people these days say that you are not a real Australian
unless your ancestors arrived as prisoners.""Gosh, sorry I asked.I think I understand now."
Jessica cut in before things grew worse.
After dinner, the house was very quiet.Jessica"s parents were still quite angry with
each other.Her mother was ironing clothes and every now and then she glared at her
husband, who hid behind his newspaper pretending to read.When she finished, she
gathered the freshly pressed clothes in her arms and walked to Jessica"s closet.Just as
she opened the door and reached in to hang a skirt, a bony arm stuck out from the
dark depths and a bundle of white bones fell to the floor.Jessica"s mother sank into a
faint (晕倒), waking only when Jessica put a cold, wet cloth on her forehead.She
looked up to see the worried faces of her husband and daughter.
"What happened? Where am I?" she asked."You just destroyed the school"s skeleton,
Mum." explained Jessica."I brought i
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to tell you, but it seemed that as soon as I mentioned skeletons and closets, it caused a
problem between you and Dad." Jessica looked in amazement as her parents began to
laugh madly."They"re both crazy." she thought.
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B.a family secret
C.a family story
D.a family treasure
B.They were the earliest people living in Australia.
C.They were involved in some crimes in Australia.
D.They were not regarded as criminals in their days.
B.frightened
C.injured
D.surprised
B.She planned to keep it for fun.
C.She needed it for her school task.
D.She intended to scare her parents.
in computers, she in special education."Teaching means everything to us." Tim would say.In
April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation.It was the kind of news that leads to
some serious thinking about life"s purpose.
Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program
started by Dolly Parton"s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children
from birth to age five in the singer"s hometown of Sevier, Tennessee."I thought, maybe Linda
and I could do something like this when we retire." Tim recalls.He placed the
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his desk as a reminder.
Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on
imaginationlibrary.com.The program had been opened up to partners who could take
advantage of book and postage discounts.
The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters.Rather than sig
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online, they went to Dollywood for a looksee."We didn"t want to give the children rubbish."
says Linda.The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists, and Dollywood
board members-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats"s The Snowy Day and newer
books like Anna Dewdney"s Llama Llama series.
Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work.Since 2004,
they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area.Megan Williams,
a mother of four, is more than appreciative:"This program introduces us to books I"ve
never heard of."
The Richters spend about $400 a month sending books to 200 children."Some people
sit there and wait to die." says Tim."Others get as busy as they can in the time they
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B.His love for teaching.
C.The influence of his wife.
D.The news from the Web.
B.Do something similar.
C.Write books for children.
D.Retire from being a teacher.
B.a mother of a fouryearold
C.a singer born in Tennessee
D.a computer programmer
B.To meet Dollywood board members.
C.To make sure the books were the newest.
D.To see if the books were of good quality.
In early autumn I applied for admission to college.I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell University,
but my mother fought strongly against it.When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the
sports ground of Cornell, she tore it up.
"You can"t say it"s not a great university, just because Papa went there."
"That"s not it at all.And it is a top university.” She was still holding the pieces in her hand.“But we
can"t afford to send you to college."
"I wouldn"t dream of asking you for money.Do you want me to get a job to help support you and
Papa? Things aren"t that bad, are they?"
"No," she said."I don"t expect you to help support us."
Father borrowed money from his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop.His chief customers
were his old college friends.To get new customers, my mother had to help.She picked up a long
forgotten membership in the local league of women, so that she could get to know more people.Whether
those people would turn into customers was another question.I knew that my parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投资) could show returns.What"s more, they had not wanted enough to be rich and successful; otherwise they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly.
I was torn between the desire to help them and change their lives, and the determination not to repeat
their mistakes.I had a strong belief in my power to get what I wanted.After months of hard study I won
a full college scholarship (奖学金).My father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother
eventually gave in before my success.
A. his father graduated from the university
B. his mother did not think it a great university
C. his parents needed him to help support the family
D. his parents did not have enough money for him
2. The father started his small shop with the money from _____.
A. a local league
B. his university
C. his relatives
D. his college friends
3. Why did the mother renew her membership in the league?
A. To help with her husband"s business.
B. To raise money for her son.
C. To meet her longforgotten friends.
D. To better manage her life.
4. According to the text, what was the author determined to do in that autumn?
A. To get a wellpaid job for himself.
B. To improve relations with his mother.
C. To go to his dream university.
D. To carry on with his father"s business.
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