He asked, “How are you getting along?”

----He asked ______.

A. how am I getting along                B. how I was getting along

C. how are you getting along              D. how was I getting along

Christmas Eve was tomorrow. I hoped one of the packages that held a camera had already been placed under the Christmas tree. It was the only thing I wanted. I had been dropping hints to my parents. I love taking photos. My bedroom walls are covered with photos I had taken with my mom’s old camera. I’m always trying to capture (捕捉) those perfect moments in which you can hear the laughter or touch the beautiful scene, but my camera has always seemed to fall short.
I knew Mom had put a few presents under the tree this morning, so I went on a hunt in my mom’s room. I opened the door and found my Christmas present was lying unwrapped on the floor — a big pink cat. I felt so disappointed.
Mom seemed to notice that, and she tried to cheer me up. “Stacy, I got your present today. I am so excited to surprise you!” “I can’t wait,” I said.
The next day I couldn’t wait any longer. I needed to tell her.
“Mom, may I talk to you for a second?”
“Sure, dear. What do you need to talk about?” she asked.
And so it came — how upset I was that I was getting a cat.
“Stacy, that cat is for your sister Julia!” she said with a smile.
“Then what am I getting?” I asked.
She just smiled. “You’ll have to wait and see.”
Next morning, I happily got into the living room and sat next to the tree. I pulled out the box with my name on it and opened the wrapping paper to find ...
My camera! “Thank you!” I said to both Dad and Mom.
Dad picked up the camera and took a picture of Julia, Mom and me. It has become one of my favorite pictures. Just on that Christmas morning, I took lots of photos with my camera — my little sister making a face, my parents giving me a soft smile — and all of these photos have come to mean one thing to me: love.
【小题1】The underlined phrase “dropping hints” in Para-graph 1 means _____.

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Vitamins are a group of substances（物质）found in food. The body needs them for life and health. So usually, many people care for the question: am I getting enough vitamins, and am I getting the right kind?

Even though very small amounts of each vitamin are enough for the needs of the body, the worry people have about vitamins has some reasons. And this has to do with their ___11_      --- the food they take in. A person eating a good variety of food get all the vitamins now ___12   ___ (know) to be needed.

The problem is that there are many people who don’t ___13_   __ foods wisely. So the answer ___14   ___ this question is: No extra ___15_  __ are needed, ___16    __ you eat proper foods. In fact, many of the vitamins cannot be ___17_  __（store） in the body, so when extra vitamins are taken in, the body simply gets rid of them. It is even ___18   ___ (harm) to put too much of certain vitamins into the body. This has been found to be ___19        (truth) of vitamin A and D, when ___20    ___ amounts are taken in.

Vitamins are a group of substances（物质）found in food. The body needs them for life and health. So usually, many people care for the question: am I getting enough vitamins, and am I getting the right kind?

Even though very small amounts of each vitamin are enough for the needs of the body, the worry people have about vitamins has some reasons. And this has to do with their __1_      --- the food they take in. A person eating a good variety of food get all the vitamins now __2   ___ (know) to be needed.

The problem is that there are many people who don’t ___3_   __ foods wisely. So the answer ___4   ___ this question is: No extra ___5_  __ are needed, ___6    __ you eat proper foods. In fact, many of the vitamins cannot be ___7_  __（store） in the body, so when extra vitamins are taken in, the body simply gets rid of them. It is even ___8   ___ (harm) to put too much of certain vitamins into the body. This has been found to be ___9        (truth) of vitamin A and D, when ___10    ___ amounts are taken in.