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How _______ I was when I heard the _______ news!
A. disappointing; disappointed B. disappointed; disappointing
C. disappointing; disappointing D. disappointed; disappointed
A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms, 21 my teacher said again and again that it was important.
One day, I happened to __ 22 _ an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to __23 .As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was 24 ___ , I thought, perhaps this is not a __ 25 __ topic.Well, I’d __ 26 change the topic.So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? _27 _ the way, have you ever __28__ there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will __29 __ me if I leave China without seeing __30 .It was great.” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of 31 .” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “ __ 32 !” I couldn’t _33 __ asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do __34__ ”, he answered, gently surprised.
I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”
Hearing this, the Englishman _ 35__ to tears.He began to __ 36___ ,“‘You don’t say actually means ‘really?’.It is an _37__ of surprise.Perhaps you don’t pay attention __38___ English idioms.”
Then I knew I had made a fool of __39__ .Since then I have been more ___50__ with idioms.
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I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother's words as if it were yesterday: “Kerrel, I don't want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father's other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn't afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher's words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not share my burden (负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cold. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn't want to call attention to AIDS. I do.
【小题1】Which of the following statements about Kerrel’s father is true?
A.He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill. |
B.He depended on the nurses in his final days. |
C.He told no one about his disease. |
D.He worked hard to pay for his medication. |
A.Kerrel couldn't understand her teacher. |
B.Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing. |
C.Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson. |
D.Kerrel was too tired to hear her teacher's words. |
A.She was afraid of being looked down upon. |
B.She thought it was shameful to have AIDS. |
C.She found no one willing to listen to her. |
D.She wanted to obey her mother. |
A.To tell people about the sufferings of her father. |
B.To show how little people knew about AIDS. |
C.To remember her father. |
D.To draw people's attention to AIDS. |