The first thing my host father “warmed” me was that almost everyone in America was a big hugger.
I didn’t understand what he meant until my first party. Whether they were friends or strangers, teenagers or elders, girls or guys, everyone I met gave me a big hug.
However, as time went on, I began to understand America’s hugging culture. When a friend broke up with me, I was sad. When I told my best American friend about it, she said nothing but put her arms around me. Then warmth of the hug was a greater comfort than anything she could have said to me.
One winter day I was walking along the street, shivering(颤抖). It was then I saw two women, each holding a paper board, on which there were two words:FREE HUGS. Their were red because of the freezing weather and they were jumping up and down to keep themselves warm. “Hi, girl! Do you want a hug?” One of them asked me. I went up and opened my arms. The hug was short but warm and it took some of the coldness of the day away.
After that I became a big hugger myself. One time my host father and I were traveling to another town. When we reached a restaurant where my friend Cindy worked, he stopped the car.
“What’ wrong?” I asked.” “Alice, why don’t you go inside and give Cindy a hug?” He suggested. I went into the restaurant, ran straight up to Cindy, and gave her a hug before she realized what was going on. “That was a big surprise! And you got my day sweetie! ” She told me later.
A hug is a way to communicate love and care. Do you want a hug? My arms are wide open.
56.The point of the first three paragraphs is to explain      .
A.how body language is more important than actual words
B.why hugging is so important in American culture
C.how expressing, feelings can be difficult for Chinese
D.how the author’s attitude toward hugging culture changed
57.We can infer from the passage that the host father      .
A.seldom has has time to spend with the author
B.often shares his experience with the author
C.warns the author of the possible danger
D.teachers the author to show her care for her friends
58.According the passage, a hug can make us feel
A.comforted, loved and cared for                   B.happy, understood and amazed                 
C.excited, wise and surprised     D.cared for, wise and happy

完形填空。
     It was five minutes before midnight.
     "They should be home any time," Cindy thought as she finished the last touches on the chocolate cake
she was   1  . The cake didn't taste   2   because she had run out of sugar.
     The kitchen was in a mess (杂乱). Imagine a huge blender filled with all the things for making a chocolate
cake. Now the blender is turned   3  . High speed. Without the lid. Do you get the idea?
     But Cindy wasn't thinking about the kitchen. She was   4   for her parents to return so that she could
present her gift. She turned off the   5   and waited excitedly in the dark. At last she saw the car headlights
flashing and heard the key going into the front   6  .
     Her parents tried to come in   7  . Cindy suddenly turned on the light and laughed loud, "Ta-daaa!" She   8   
to the kitchen table, where the poor chocolate cake stood.
     But her mother's eyes never made it all the way to the table. "Just look at this mess!"
     "But Mom, I was only …"
     "Clean the   9   first thing in the morning!"
     "Honey," Cindy's father said gently, "take a look at the table."
     "I know-it's a mess," his wife said  10 . "The whole kitchen is a  11 ." She stormed up the stairs.
     For a few moments Cindy and her father stood silently,  12  knowing what to say. Finally she looked up at
him, her eyes red. "She never saw the cake," she said. From time to time we all allow ourselves to be  13  to
subjects of long-term importance by something that seems awfully important right now-but isn't. Muddy shoes,
lost lunch money and untidy kitchens are troublesome but what's a little mud compared to a child's  14 ? There
are times when we really need to see the mess in the kitchen, and times when we only need to see the  15 .
(     )1. A. getting
(     )2. A. good
(     )3. A. down
(     )4. A. anxious
(     )5. A. water
(     )6. A. window
(     )7. A. quietly
(     )8. A. fell
(     )9. A. bedroom
(     )10. A. nervously
(     )11. A. game
(     )12. A. none
(     )13. A. blinded
(     )14. A. self-awareness
(     )15. A. blender
B. ordering
B. strange
B. on
B. shocked
B. light
B. garden
B. hurriedly 
B. led
B. kitchen
B. confusedly
B. disaster
B. all
B. limited
B. self-control   
B. sugar
C. making
C. fresh
C. over
C. sorry
C. TV
C. door
C. calmly
C. referred
C. bathroom
C. carefully
C. loss
C. neither
C. connected
C. self-defense   
C. cake
D. eating
D. salty
D. back
D. moved
D. radio
D. garage
D. sharply
D. pointed                    
D. study
D. coldly
D. surprise
D. either
D. introduced
D. self-respect
D. table

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