Not until my mother came back_________ go to bed.

A. I did                      B. did I                      C. was I                    D. I was

（安徽省利辛二中2010届高三上学期第四次月考）

B

 When I was a little kid, a father was like the night in the refrigerator. Every house had one, but no one really knew what either of them did once the door was shut.

 My dad left the house every morning and always seemed glad to see every one again at night . He opened the jar of pickets when no one else at home could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself.

Whenever it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He set mousetraps. He cut back the roses so the thorns (刺)wouldn’t snag you when you came to the front door. He oiled my roller skates, and they went faster . When I got my bike ,he ran alongside me for at least a thousand miles until I got the hang of it. He signed all my report and my cards. He took a lot of pictures, but was never in them. He tightened up Mother’s sagging（松垂的）clothesline every week or so.

I was afraid of everyone else’s father, but not my own.

Whenever I played house, the mother doll had a lot to do. I never knew what to do with the daddy doll, so I had him say, “I’m going off to work mow,” and threw him under the bed.

When I was nine years old, my father didn’t get up one morning and go to work, he went to the hospital and died the next day.

There were a lot of people in the house who brought all kinds of good food and cakes. We had never had so much company before.

He never did anything, I didn’t know his leaving would hurt so much.

60 The phrase “got the hang of it.” In Paragraph 3 means being able to              

A held the bike    B repaired the bike C controlled the bike D ran as fast as bike

61 Father did a lot of things including         besides going off to work

A making roller skates    B  helping mom wash clothes

C looking after the sick   D  seeing to the flowers in the garden

62 From the passage we can infer that the author seemed NOT to       when she was a child

A enjoy playing house with other children at all

B be aware of his father’s role in the house at first

C be afraid of going into the basement alone

D miss his father much after he passed always

63 From the passage,  we can see that father           

A loves his family very much    B loves only about his work

C is very careless              D always acts strangely

     Father was in the army all through the First World War, so up to the age of five, I never saw much of him, and what I saw did not worry me. Sometimes I woke and there was a big figure (身影) looking down at me. Sometimes in the early morning I heard the closing of the front door and the sound of shoes walking down. These were father’s entrances and exits.

Each time he went away, he left me lots of presents―model tanks, knives and all sorts of military (军队的) equipment which he put in a long box. When he was not there, mother let me get a chair and search through his treasures. She did not seem to think so highly of them as he did.

    The war was the most peaceful period of my life. Every morning I awoke as soon as it was light and felt myself to be like the sun. Life never seemed so simple and clear and full of possibilities as then. I got up, went into mother’s room and climbed into the big bed. She woke and I began to tell her of my plans. I talked but then fell asleep and woke again only when I heard her below in the kitchen, making the breakfast.

    I often wondered what mother and I should do all day and what present I would get for Christmas. There was that little problem of the baby, for example. Mother and I could never agree about that. Ours was the only house in the street without a new baby, and mother said we could not buy one until father came back from the war as they were very expensive. That showed how simple she was. The Geneys who lived nearby had a baby, and everybody knew that they had hardly any money at all. Maybe it was a cheap baby, and mother wanted something really good, but I felt this did not really matter. The Geneys’ baby would have been fine for us.

41. Until the age of five, the writer ______.

   A. did not worry about his father             B. never saw his father

   C. often annoyed his father                     D. saw his father sometimes

42. When father was away, mother asked the writer to ______.

   A. put the presents aside                          B. go over the presents carefully

   C. get everything ready                           D. throw the presents away

43. When the writer woke up, he felt that ______.

   A. life was good        B. he was simple        C. life was uninteresting      D. he was funny

44. What happened as soon as he writer got into his mother’s bed?

   A. She went to make breakfast.                   B. He told her all his plans.

   C. She asked him about his plans                 D. He went to sleep

45. The writer’s mother said they could not have a baby because _____.

   A. there was a war on                                 B. there were too many babies in the street

   C. it costs a lot of money                            D. father was ill in the army