I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton Train Station, back when the trains will ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to 1   the train that would take me to Boston and the college. I was eager(热切的) to go. College, with its  and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It 3  me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.
For eighteen years, we had never had a(n)  to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me,  I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He 6   me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were 7   it.
The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my 8   from his, and now I was learning it. The train 9    and I boarded(登上) it. My father looked smaller from the train. We 10    goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.

【小题1】
A.returnB.catchC.designD.watch
【小题2】
A.habitsB.licenseC.coursesD.advertisements
【小题3】
A.shockedB.supposedC.helpedD.encouraged
【小题4】
A.timeB.luckC.chanceD.interest
【小题5】
A.becauseB.though C.soD.and
【小题6】
A.taughtB.beatC.forgotD.loved
【小题7】
A.sayingB.knowingC.creatingD.describing
【小题8】
A.moneyB.timeC.presentD.life
【小题9】
A.continuedB.broke C.arrivedD.left
【小题10】
A.reachedB.wavedC.talkedD.cheered

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The development of the English language took a giant step in 1607. Three small British ships c小题1】 the Atlantic Ocean. They began to call areas of their new land by words borrowed from the native people. For example, many of the great r小题2】 in the United States are taken from American Indian words. The Mississippi, the Tennessee, the Missouri are examples. This borrowing or adding of foreign words to English was a w小题3】of expanding(扩大)the language. The names of three days of the week are good examples of this. The people from Northern Europe honored three gods with a special day each week. The gods were Odin, Thor and Freya. Odin’s-day became Wednesday in English, Thor’s-day became T小题4】 and Freya’s-day became Friday.
Experts cannot explain many English words. For h小题5】 of years, a dog was called a “hound.” The word is still u小题6】 but not as commonly as the word “dog.” English speakers just started using it. Other words whose origins are unknown i小题7】“fun,” “bad,” and “big.”
English speakers also continue to invent n小题8】 words by linking old words together. A good example is the words “motor” and “hotel.” Many years ago
s小题9】 linked them together into the word “motel.” A motel is a small hotel near a road where people travelling in cars can stay for the night.
Other words come from the f小题10】 letters of names of groups or devices. For example, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is usually called NATO.

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