Question

“How did you do it, Dad? How have you  21  not to take a drink for almost 20 years?” It took me almost 20 years to have the  22  to even ask my father this very  23  question. When Dad first 24 drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles  25  he got into a situation that, in the past, would have started him drinking again. For a few years we were   26 to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.

“I had this little 27 that I would recite to myself 28 four to five times a day” was Dad’s 29 to my 18 – year – old unasked question. “The 30 were an instant relief and constant reminder to me that things were never so 31 that I could not handle them,” Dad said. And then he 32 the poem with me. The poem’s simple, yet profound （深?yuàn)W的） words  33  became part of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this talk with my father, I 34 a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of affirmations（斷言）with one affirmation listed for each 35 of the year.

I 36 opened the book to the page of my birthday to see what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. 37 of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my face. There, on my birthday, was the 38 poem that had helped my 39 for all these years! It is called The Serenity Prayer.

God, give me the Serenity （平靜）to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to 40 the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.

A. failed          B. succeeded           C. managed             D. tried

A. courage        B. ability              C. wisdom              D. confidence

A. interesting      B. personal            C. hard                 D. unanswered

A. started         B. enjoyed             C. minded              D. stopped

A. every time      B. all time             C. next time             D. last time

A. anxious        B. glad                C. afraid                D. eager

A. book          B. passage             C. poem                       D. list

A. at least        B. at most              C. at first               D. at last

A. comment      B. praise               C. contribution           D. reply

A. words         B. phrases             C. letters                D. sentences

A. strange        B. different            C. simple                D. tough

A. shared           B. talked            C. read               D. impressed

A. surprisingly       B. immediately       C. increasingly        D. regularly

A. brought          B. bought            C. received           D. accepted

A. hour             B. week             C. month            D. day

A. easily            B. hurriedly          C. sadly             D. peacefully

A. Tears            B. Smiles            C. Sweat             D. Satisfaction

A. correct           B. impossible         C. original           D. exact

A. mother           B. father             C. friend            D. classmate

A. believe           B. benefit            C. change           D. do

Answer 1

【小題1】C

【小題2】A

【小題3】B

【小題4】D

【小題5】A

【小題6】C

【小題7】C

【小題8】A

【小題9】D

【小題10】A

【小題11】D

【小題12】A

【小題13】B

【小題14】C

【小題15】D

【小題16】B

【小題17】A

【小題18】D

【小題19】B

【小題20】C

解析:

【小題1】你是如何設(shè)法做到在過去的20年里不喝一杯酒。manage to do sth.設(shè)法做到某事。

【小題2】這用去我20年的時(shí)間才有勇氣去問我的父親這個(gè)非常個(gè)人的，私人的問題。作為子女去問這樣的問題肯定是有顧慮的，所以作者說的是勇氣。courage 勇氣。

【小題3】personal個(gè)人的，私人的。分析見上題。

【小題4】當(dāng)父親剛開始停止吸煙的時(shí)候，全家人如坐針氈，每一次他總會(huì)陷入一種情形之中，他會(huì)再次吸煙。every time每次。

【小題5】分析見上題。

【小題6】幾年來我們都不敢提出這個(gè)話題，因?yàn)槲覀兒ε赂赣H會(huì)再次吸煙。

【小題7】根據(jù)后文可知用poem。

【小題8】每天至少背四到五次來強(qiáng)調(diào)父親的決心。

【小題9】與question相對(duì)應(yīng)的詞是答案，即：answer或reply。

【小題10】用A來指父親要背誦的那首詩(shī)。

【小題11】首先確定句意，父親指的是事情并非如此艱難以至于事情是可以控制的。tough艱難的，不容易的。

【小題12】然后父親把那首詩(shī)拿來和我分享。share sth. with sb.和某人分享某事物。

【小題13】父親的那首詩(shī)立刻變成我日常行為的一部分，這句話是用來體現(xiàn)這首詩(shī)對(duì)作者的影響也很大。

【小題14】我受到了一封郵件，客觀的收到用receive。

【小題15】這是一本電子書，上面列出了適合每一天的宣言，言外之意是每天都可以背一個(gè)相對(duì)應(yīng)的宣言。

【小題16】我快速的翻到與我生日相對(duì)應(yīng)的那一天，想看看送給我的睿言是什么。

【小題17】難以置信的和感激的眼淚順著我的臉留了下來。

【小題18】在我生日那一天的書頁(yè)上正式那首幫助我父親度過這些年的一首詩(shī)歌。

【小題19】見上題分析。

【小題20】與上一句話的change對(duì)應(yīng)，給我平靜的心讓我來接受我不能改變的事情，給我勇氣來讓我改變我能改變的事情。