题目内容
About 20 years ago, I was lucky to teach a disabled young woman named Audrey. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also very 21 in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university, she got two 22 , one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such 23 areas of study.
Just before her high school graduation, Audrey 24 me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolour painting of a mother and her baby. A tear 25 from the mother’s eye as she looked 26 at her child. Under the painting, Audrey had 27 these words: “The deep love from Mother, 28 me, touches another.” What a beautiful gift! I had the piece of art framed and 29 in my office.
Years passed with many 30 from one office to another and I 31 the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I 32 a phone call from a former colleague who said she had 33 of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years earlier. When cleaning out a storage room, she had 34 my gift.
I was struck that the 35 gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old, Audrey had a serious 36 . What’s worse, her father left the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She 37 it but was disabled.
To 38 , it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother’s love has helped 39 a talent and how its 40 pushes me ahead.
21. A. talented B. interested C. buried D. absorbed
22. A. choices B. degrees C. chances D. jobs
23. A. similar B. difficult C. different D. scientific
24. A. presented B. promised C. afforded D. gave
25. A. fell B. flooded C. escaped D. sank
26. A. quietly B. lovingly C. warmly D. gently
27. A. described B. marked C. written D. signed
28. A. past B. on C. with D. through
29. A. hung B. decorated C. painted D. added
30. A. migrations B. moves C. turns D. circles
31. A. left B. forgot C. lost D. ignored
32. A. accepted B. made C. dialed D. received
33. A. something B. books C. gifts D. letters
34. A. searched B. discovered C. observed D. touched
35. A. ancient B. colorful C. precious D. abstract
36. A. symptom B. fault C. heart D. disease
37. A. survived B. recovered C. struggled D. managed
38. A. someone else B. anyone else C. everyone else D. nobody else
39. A. encourage B. become C. develop D. practise
40. A. energy B. force C. strength D. power
21—25 ABCDA 26—30 BCDAB 31—35 CDABC 36— 40 DABCD