Question

Valentine’s Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly (天真的) thought   1   him as my “Valentine man”.

My first recollection of the   2   he could bring to Valentine’s Day came when I was six. That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a gift-wrapped package at my chair. The card was   3   “Love, Dad” and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to   4   my birthstone, a ruby (红宝石). There is   5   difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember   6   that ring with pride that all the cards in the world   7   not surpass (超越).

  8   I grew older, the gifts gave   9   to heart-shaped boxes filled with my   10__   chocolate and always included a   11   card signed “Love, Dad”. In those years my thank-you became   12   of a perfunctory (敷衍) response. The cards seemed less   13  , and I took for granted that the Valentine would   14   be there. I had   15   my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from “significant others” and “Love Dad” just didn’t seem quite   16  .

His final card remains on my desk today. It’s a   17   of how special fathers can be and how important it has been to me over the years to know that I had a father who continued a   18_        of love with simple acts of understanding and an ability to express happiness over the people in his life.

Those things never   19  , nor does the memory of a man who never   20   being my Valentine.

1. A. of           B. about       C. up              D. over

2. A. memory      B. magic        C. puzzle            D. presents

3. A. read           B. written             C. shown           D. signed

4. A. recover      B. resemble        C. represent              D. replace

5. A. much        B. little           C. great             D. less

6. A. having       B. owning       C. wearing         D. watching

7. A. could         B. did             C. must             D. should

8. A. Because     B. Since          C. When            D. As

9. A. room         B. way            C. honour          D. seat

10. A. favorite    B. lovely          C. dear                  D. precious

11. A. usual        B. common        C. strange         D. special

12. A. less         B. little            C. more             D. much

13. A. important     B. beautiful       C. familiar          D. standard

14. A. surely      B. always        C. regularly        D. often

15. A. let        B. kept            C. placed            D. remembered

16. A. suitable      B. enough         C. effective         D. sacred

17. A. signal        B. certificate     C. consequence      D. reminder

18. A. tradition       B. hobby        C. habit             D. custom

19. A. lose          B. die             C. miss             D. appear

20. A. thought     B. wanted           C. tried            D. stopped

Answer 1

1--  20      ABDCB   CADBA   DCABC   BDABD  

解析:

1. A  think of … as …是固定短语，意为“把……视为／看作……”。

2. B  该句大意为“我对情人节的记忆最早是从我六岁那年开始的。”

3. D  卡片上有父亲的签名。该选项从下文也可得到提示。

4. C  戒指上红玻璃象征／代表着我的诞生石——红宝石。

5. B  对一个六岁的孩子而言，红玻璃和红宝石没有什么不同。  

6. C  表示佩戴首饰只能用wear。

7. A  世界上所有的卡片都不能超过它。

8. D  as在此处引导时间状语从句，意为“随着”。

9. B  give way to是固定短语，意为“为……所代替”。

10. A  该题可采用排除法，修饰巧克力不能用“可爱的；亲爱的；宝贵的”但可以用“最喜爱的”。  

11. D  父亲的卡片是特殊的。

12. C  该句句意为“而我的感谢越来越成为一种敷衍的回应。”从上下文可知，此处是与以前相对比。

13. A  这些卡片看起来已经不是那么重要。

14. B  我想当然地认为情人节年年都有。

15. C  我把梦想和希望放在收到那些来自“重要的其他人”的卡片和礼物上。

16. B  来自父亲的贺卡似乎远远不能够（满足女儿的需要）。

17. D  父亲送我的最后一张卡片在提醒着我：父亲对子女的爱是多么特别又是多么重要。

18. A  父亲表达的是一种传统的爱。

19. B  该句句意为“这些事情永远不会消逝，就如同我对一位男子的记忆，他永远是我的情人。”这句话表达了女儿对父亲永远的怀念。

20. D  根据该句句意，stop doing sth.符合语境。