Question

 Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago,I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was 1        into stillness by what I saw. Mother,seated at the far end of the sofa,2       ，with the secondhand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn't type fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment at finding mother in tears was a perfect 3        of how little I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa,I began very 4        to understand. "I guess we all have to 5        sometime," mother said quietly. I could 6        her pain and the tension of holding back the strong feelings that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly,something inside me 7      I reached out and 8        my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face 9        my shoulder and sobbed. I held her 10        and didn't try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should,what I could 11        it was enough. In that moment,feeling mother's 12        racked with feelings,I understood for the first time her being so easy to 13       . She was still my mother,yet she was something 14 ：a person like me,capable of fear and 15        and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I had sought 16        in her arms.

  A week later mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station had 17       . "It's a job I can do," she said simply. But the evening 18        on the old green typewriter continued. I had a very 19        feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her typping 20        the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.

(   ) 1. A. tired   B. ashamed   C. afraid   D. shocked

(   ) 2. A. crying   B. smiling   C. thinking   D. whispering

(   ) 3. A. appeal   B. conscience   C. proof   D. blame

(   ) 4. A. quickly   B. slowly   C. suddenly   D. proudly

(   ) 5. A. fail   B. win   C. stop   D. lose

(   ) 6. A. convey   B. watch   C. sense   D. recognize

(   ) 7. A. faded   B. upset   C. turned   D. increased

(   ) 8. A. put   B. made   C. got   D. let

(   ) 9. A. to   B. up   C. through   D. against

(   ) 10. A. tightly   B. thoughtfully   C. carefully   D. politely

(   ) 11. A. and that   B. now that   C. but that   D. so that

(   ) 12. A. hand   B. face   C. hair   D. back

(   ) 13. A. fail   B. break   C. fall   D. understand

(   ) 14. A. more   B. much   C. little   D. huge

(   ) 15. A. wound   B. defeat   C. cut   D. hurt

(   ) 16. A. kindness   B. memory   C. comfort   D. support

(   ) 17. A. supplied   B. offered   C. gave   D. provided

(   ) 18. A. practice   B. writing   C. inspection   D. concentration

(   ) 19. A. different   B. hard   C. pleasant   D. serious

(   ) 20. A. off   B. across   C. out   D. through

Answer 1

1. D作者高兴地回家过周末，看见家里所发生的事情一母亲失业了，所以应该是震惊，况且下文也有shock—词。

2. A 下文有提示：mother in tears。

3. C该句话是作者来解释他为什么会shock ,是因为这证明自己对母亲身上的压力了解太少。

4. B由下文通过母亲断断续续说出的话及其情感的表露，作者才慢慢地理解，所以选slowly。

5. A下文的failure暗示此处用A.

6. C sense在此表达"感觉到"，因为后面接的是pain和tension ,所以不可能用watch"观看"， convey意为"表达",recognize意为"认出"。

7. C用turn表示转变，联系上下文，一开始shocked,然后sensed,这B寸句中用了suddenly, 开始那种只是震惊的感情突然变化了。something inside me"我内心的某种东西"，这里应当指情感和想法。

8. A put one's arms around sb.意为"拥抱某人"。

9. D母亲把脸靠在我的肩膀上，所以用_against。

10. A tightly意为"紧紧地"抱住母亲，表示了作者对母亲的情感,其他三词都与语境不合。

11. A and that引导并列的宾语从句，和I was doing并列₀

12. D因为此时作者是抱着母亲，母亲靠在他的肩上，所以他(的手) 应抚摸着母亲的背部，因此选back。

13. B break此处的语意为：沮丧、崩溃。作者第一次理解了母亲这么容易被击垮。这与上下文作者的shocked、母亲的哭泣一致。

fail意为"失败"，understand意为"理解"与上下文不合。

14. A根据下文(冒号后面) 所列举的，说明此处用more ,表示母亲除了是"母亲"以外，还意味着更多。

15. D该空前为fear,后为failure ,所以不应填defeat ,因为与failure重复;cut"割口"，不合适，所以应在wound与hurt中选择，而hurt除受伤外，还可指感情上的创伤，因此选D.

16. C孩子在母亲的怀抱里寻求的是安慰(comfort) 。

17. B offer表"提供"之意。

18. A上文母亲说到她因打字慢而失业，因此，此处写她还坚持练习打字技能。

19. A上文看到的母亲感情外露，体谅、理解了母亲承受的压力，现在(文中用了now,尤为重要) 再经过母亲房门时，作者的感情就不同了，所以选different   

20. B在纸上打字(type across the paper) 。across表移动。