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【题目】It was at her company’s annual picnic that my mother met my father, and he walked her home. The next week, from his home in Chicago, he sent her a post card: Remember me please. Do be calling you one of these days.—David.

She still has that post card. I am not sure what made her save. Though he already had his heart set on her, she hadn't chosen him yet, at least not consciously.

My father, a salesman for a big electronics company, often told us while we were growing up, it was blind luck that he was at the picnic that day. He was in town to meet with clients and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to make a call. It was the manager of a local radio station where my mother worked as a writer. “Dave! Glad you’re in town!” he said, and invited him to come right over to their annual picnic. Later my mother dated him when he was in town. Eventually, one night a few months later, she woke her mother and told her she was going to marry Dave. A few months after the wedding, my father was transferred east. They settled in New York, in the house where I grew up.

Sometimes I think how time gets us together and puts us in a certain place where we’re faced with one option or another. We leave behind while others live by the choice we made. We could have lived full of different passions and joys, different problems and disappointments. Sometimes, particularly when I came home late to a sleeping house, my husband and daughter curled around each other. I think about the lives we would not have had if choices had brought us to a different place. And I tremble at the thought that I might have missed this life, this man, this child, this love.

【1】According to the text, where did the author’s parents come across?

A. At the author’s home. B. At a local radio station.

C. At her father’s company’s picnic. D. At her mother’s company’s picnic.

【2】It can be inferred from the text that ________.

A. the author’s father didn’t like her mother

B. the author’s mother always made right decisions

C. the author didn’t believe her mother

D. the author’s mother hadn’t decided to marry her father at first

【3】Before meeting the author's father, her mother was ________.

A. a writer B. a manager C. a teacher D. a saleswoman

【4】What do we know about the author?

A. She values her life now.

B. Time makes her life now perfect.

C. She is tired of her life now.

D. Her life now faces problems and disappointments.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】D

【3】A

【4】A

【解析】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文，作者通过回忆爸爸妈妈的相识过程，又结合自己现在的生活，不由心生感慨，感恩命运把她与这些亲人安排在一起，她非常珍惜自己现在的生活。

【1】细节理解题。根据第一段中的“It was at her company’s annual picnic that my mother met my father”可知，作者的爸爸妈妈在妈妈公司一年一度的野餐聚会上相识，故D项正确。

【2】推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Though he already had his heart set on her,she hadn't chosen him yet, at least not consciously.”可知，尽管作者的爸爸对妈妈很倾心，但妈妈最初并没有想要选择他，故D项正确。

【3】细节理解题。根据第三段中的“It was the manager of a local radio station where my mother worked as a writer.”可知，妈妈曾是一家当地广播站的写作者，故A项正确。

【4】推理判断题。根据最后一段内容，特别是“Sometimes, particularly when I came home late to a sleeping house, my husband and daughter curled around each other…”可知，作者非常爱自己的丈夫和女儿，感恩和他们在一起，由此可见她非常珍惜现在的生活，故A项正确。