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第二节阅读表达(共5小题；每小题3分，共15分) (2013 •天津高一检测)

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到题后相应 的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求) 。

    When I was in the third grade,I was picked to be the princess (公主) in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practise my lines. But once on stage,every word disappeared from my head. Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator's (解说者的) part for the play,and asked me to change roles. Though I didn't tell my mother what had happened that day,she sensed my unhappiness and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.

   It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions (蒲公英) popping through the grass in bunches,as if a painter had touched our landscape with bits of gold. I watched my mother carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I am going to dig up all these weeds,” she said. “From now on,we’ll have only roses in this garden. ”

    “ But I like dandelions ,” I protested. “ All flowers are beautiful—even dandelions!” My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes. Every flower gives pleasure in its own way,doesn’t it?”she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is true to people,too,” she ad&ed. When I realised that she had guessed my pain,I started to cry and told her the truth. But you will be a beautiful narra-tor,” she said,reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her.

    Over the next few weeks,with her continuous encouragement,I learned to take pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play,my teacher came over to me. u Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said,handing me a dandelion. After the play,I took home the flower,laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.

56. Why did not the girl play the role of the princess? (no more than 10 words)

57. How did the writer feel about her narrator's part at the beginning? (no more than 10 words)

58. What does “that” refer to in the passage? (no more than 10 words)

59. Why do you think the writer's mother gave a dandeli-on to her before the play? (no more than 15 words)

60. What have you learned from the story? (no more than 15 words)

Answer 1

56. Because she felt nervous on the stage./Be-cause once on stage,every word disappeared from her head.

57. She was unhappy with it.

58. Every flower gives pleasure in its own way.

59. To encourage her to do her best in the play-

60. Everybody has his or her own value in the world.