题目内容
I do not need a calendar to tell me when it is winter. All I need is my 1 . When I wake up in the morning and smell the tasty treats my mom is 2 downstairs, I know winter has arrived
The 3 one is the smell of chocolate. During the holiday season (from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day) my mother makes her 4 hot chocolate. She always adds a peppermint candy cane (薄荷味拐棍糖) to the 5 and tops it with cream.
The hot chocolate gets me out of bed, but it is my mother’s chocolate fudge (软糕) that makes me run 6 . It is a thick chunk (块) of chocolate that tastes like heaven. My mother adds nuts. That gives it 7 texture (质感).
But my mother isn’t done yet. She also makes a treat she 8 “window panes (窗玻璃)”. She takes a few different colored marshmallows (棉花糖) and melts them together with chocolate. The final product looks like a colorful church window, so we call it “window panes”.
These tasty holiday treats are usually eaten 9 a meal as a dessert. But don’t tell Santa Claus because I 10 eat them all day long.
1. A. eyes | B. nose | C. mouth | D. fingers |
2. A. cooking | B. eating | C. picking | D. cleaning |
3. A. final | B. next | C. first | D. second |
4. A. strange | B. common | C. special | D. cheap |
5. A. candy | B. drink | C. snack | D. fruit |
6. A. in | B. away | C. upstairs | D. downstairs |
7. A. more | B. less | C. no | D. little |
8. A. calls | B. regards | C. thinks | D. knows |
9. A. before | B. after | C. during | D. between |
10. A. hopefully | B. rarely | C. happily | D. secretly |
1-5 B A C C B 6-10 D A A B D
The greatest source of inspiration for me has always been my father. Though he’s been gone for 17 years, his 21 still resonate(产生共鸣). He taught me how to run my own race in life. But the most inspiring thing he taught me was to 22 .
One incident is 23 in my mind. It happened when I was a teenager. My sister and I weren’t very fond of a so-called friend of 24 . Dad was a very generous man, and as he’d done with so many people, he’d given this fellow great help. But when he asked for a favor 25 , the guy didn’t deliver.
Dad’s outlook(人生观)on most things was “Live and let live.” In this case, however, his calmness 26 Terre and me, and we let him know it.
“How can you be nice to that man?” we said to him. “You’ve been so kind to him, and he’s not being kind back. Why would you want to give him the time of day again?”
My father shrugged(耸肩)and said to us, “I do not bend my back with 27 . ”
I didn’t get it at first, but over the years I came to understand the 28 . Holding a grudge(怨恨)doesn’t 29 the person you’re angry with, but it changes you. It makes you heavier and gives you more weight to drag around.
After my father died in 1991, a (n) 30 came from a fellow I’d had a quarrel with years before to 31 his sympathy. He wrote: “I thought I’d tell you how sorry I am 32 the loss of your father. I know he 33 the world to you. I just wanted to let you know that you are in my thoughts. ”
Much moved, I wrote back. I thanked him for his 34 . And then, because he’d 35
our disagreement, I recalled Dad’s inspiring words. “I am my father’s daughter,” I wrote. “And like him, I do not bend my back with yesterday.”
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