Li Lei is a student __1__ Class Two, Grade Seven. He likes football very __2__. He often plays it after school. And he often goes home__3__. His home is __4__the school. His mother doesn’t worry __5__ him.
One Sunday morning Li Lei goes to a shop__6__his mother. The shop is very__7__. There are many things__8__it. They get some things. Then his mother says to Li Lei, "What do you _9_ ?"
"I want to get a red blouse," says Li Lei. "A red blouse?" asks his mother. "You are a __10__. You can’t wear a red blouse."
Li Lei smiled"OK, please get me football clothes."
1. A. at          B. of             C. on             D. with
2. A. good            B. fine           C. well          D. much
3. A. early            B. back          C. late           D. soon
4. A. near             B. in             C. on             D. to
5. A. for               B. with          C. about               D. at
6. A. to          B. from         C. on             D. with
7. A. small            B. big            C. nice          D. good
8. A. on         B. in             C. at              D. under
9. A. want             B. get            C. put            D. take
10. A. girl             B. woman      C. boy           D. man

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth.”
I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter
They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface”.
As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.
I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.
My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace—it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside--- a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times.
Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
【小题1】The writer began to love her mother’s desk____________.

The Greens live in a small village（村庄）. They    1   one child, Mike. He is twenty. He works in the village, but he    2   like to work in the village. Then he   3   a job in the town. It is quite    4  the village. Mike likes the job very much, but his parents aren’t happy about this.
“ Mike, you must     5  back to work in the village and live with us.” Mrs Green says one day. “ There isn’t     6  good work for me here, Mother,” says Mike. Mike goes to work in the town and    7  there. After a few days, Mrs Green is very angry（生气的）.
She gets     8    a bus and goes to Mike’s house in the town. “ Mike,” she says to him, “    9   do you never call （从不打电话）us?” “ But, Mother, you don’t have a   10 ,” Mike says, “No, I don’t,” she says, “ But you have one.”

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth.”

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface”.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace—it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside--- a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

1.The writer began to love her mother’s desk____________.

   A. after Mother died.

   B. before she became a writer.

   C. when she was a child

   D. when Mother gave it to her

2. The passage shows that _____________.

   A. mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter

   B. mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done

   C. mother cared much about her daughter in words

   D. mother wrote to her daughter in careful words

3.The word “gulf” in the passage means ____________.

   A. deep understanding between the old and the young

   B. different ideas between the mother and the daughter

   C. free talks between mother daughter

   D. part of the sea going far in land

4.What did mother do with her daughter’s letter?

   A. She had never received the letter.

   B. For years, she often talked about the letter.

   C. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in all her life.

   D. She read the letter again and again till she died.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

   A. My Letter to Mother        B. Mother and Children

   C. My Mother’s Desk         D. Talks between Mother and Me