Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago,I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was 1        into stillness by what I saw. Mother,seated at the far end of the sofa,2       ，with the secondhand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn't type fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment at finding mother in tears was a perfect 3        of how little I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa,I began very 4        to understand. "I guess we all have to 5        sometime," mother said quietly. I could 6        her pain and the tension of holding back the strong feelings that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly,something inside me 7      I reached out and 8        my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face 9        my shoulder and sobbed. I held her 10        and didn't try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should,what I could 11        it was enough. In that moment,feeling mother's 12        racked with feelings,I understood for the first time her being so easy to 13       . She was still my mother,yet she was something 14 ：a person like me,capable of fear and 15        and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I had sought 16        in her arms.

  A week later mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station had 17       . "It's a job I can do," she said simply. But the evening 18        on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very 19        feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her typping 20        the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.

(   ) 1. A. tired   B. ashamed   C. afraid   D. shocked

(   ) 2. A. crying   B. smiling   C. thinking   D. whispering

(   ) 3. A. appeal   B. conscience   C. proof   D. blame

(   ) 4. A. quickly   B. slowly   C. suddenly   D. proudly

(   ) 5. A. fail   B. win   C. stop   D. lose

(   ) 6. A. convey   B. watch   C. sense   D. recognize

(   ) 7. A. faded   B. upset   C. turned   D. increased

(   ) 8. A. put   B. made   C. got   D. let

(   ) 9. A. to   B. up   C. through   D. against

(   ) 10. A. tightly   B. thoughtfully   C. carefully   D. politely

(   ) 11. A. and that   B. now that   C. but that   D. so that

(   ) 12. A. hand   B. face   C. hair   D. back

(   ) 13. A. fail   B. break   C. fall   D. understand

(   ) 14. A. more   B. much   C. little   D. huge

(   ) 15. A. wound   B. defeat   C. cut   D. hurt

(   ) 16. A. kindness   B. memory   C. comfort   D. support

(   ) 17. A. supplied   B. offered   C. gave   D. provided

(   ) 18. A. practice   B. writing   C. inspection   D. concentration

(   ) 19. A. different   B. hard   C. pleasant   D. serious

(   ) 20. A. off   B. across   C. out   D. through

1. D作者高興地回家過周末，看見家里所發(fā)生的事情一母親失業(yè)了，所以應(yīng)該是震驚，況且下文也有shock—詞。

2. A 下文有提示：mother in tears。

3. C該句話是作者來解釋他為什么會(huì)shock ,是因?yàn)檫@證明自己對(duì)母親身上的壓力了解太少。

4. B由下文通過母親斷斷續(xù)續(xù)說出的話及其情感的表露，作者才慢慢地理解，所以選slowly。

5. A下文的failure暗示此處用A.

6. C sense在此表達(dá)"感覺到"，因?yàn)楹竺娼拥氖莗ain和tension ,所以不可能用watch"觀看"， convey意為"表達(dá)",recognize意為"認(rèn)出"。

7. C用turn表示轉(zhuǎn)變，聯(lián)系上下文，一開始shocked,然后sensed,這B寸句中用了suddenly, 開始那種只是震驚的感情突然變化了。something inside me"我內(nèi)心的某種東西"，這里應(yīng)當(dāng)指情感和想法。

8. A put one's arms around sb.意為"擁抱某人"。

9. D母親把臉靠在我的肩膀上，所以用against。

10. A tightly意為"緊緊地"抱住母親，表示了作者對(duì)母親的情感,其他三詞都與語境不合。

11. A and that引導(dǎo)并列的賓語從句，和I was doing并列0

12. D因?yàn)榇藭r(shí)作者是抱著母親，母親靠在他的肩上，所以他(的手) 應(yīng)撫摸著母親的背部，因此選back。

13. B break此處的語意為：沮喪、崩潰。作者第一次理解了母親這么容易被擊垮。這與上下文作者的shocked、母親的哭泣一致。

fail意為"失敗"，understand意為"理解"與上下文不合。

14. A根據(jù)下文(冒號(hào)后面) 所列舉的，說明此處用more ,表示母親除了是"母親"以外，還意味著更多。

15. D該空前為fear,后為failure ,所以不應(yīng)填defeat ,因?yàn)榕cfailure重復(fù);cut"割口"，不合適，所以應(yīng)在wound與hurt中選擇，而hurt除受傷外，還可指感情上的創(chuàng)傷，因此選D.

16. C孩子在母親的懷抱里尋求的是安慰(comfort) 。

17. B offer表"提供"之意。

18. A上文母親說到她因打字慢而失業(yè)，因此，此處寫她還堅(jiān)持練習(xí)打字技能。

19. A上文看到的母親感情外露，體諒、理解了母親承受的壓力，現(xiàn)在(文中用了now,尤為重要) 再經(jīng)過母親房門時(shí)，作者的感情就不同了，所以選different   

20. B在紙上打字(type across the paper) 。across表移動(dòng)。

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