40．A．voice B．sound C．appearance D．interest
答案 21.B 22.C 23.B 24.D 25.B 26.A 27.C 28.D 29.A 30.B 31.D 32.A 33.C 34.D 35.A 36.B 37.D 38.C 39.D 40.A
Passage 15
(甘肃省静宁一中高三第二次模拟考试)
It’s hard being an astronaut’s son. I 21 , everybody expects you to be
special or 22 , and I’m just an average student,
and I’m average, too, when it 23 basketball, football, soccer, and
baseball.
I often wonder 24 my father ever had a son like me. I mean
he’s so 25 and so good at everything. So I used to
dream about doing something spectacular(不平常的) to 26 my father and make him 27
me.
In one class, my
teacher 28 a Father’s Day essay contest
for us and the winners’ essays would be read in front of all the parents and
students. After school I walked home, 29 my father, who I would write about in my
essay.
He sat with me
in the 30 when I was a little kid and had a
nightmare. He 31 me with a new puppy at my eighth birthday
party. He sat and tried to 32 death to me when Grandpa Bob died. To me,
he wasn’t a world-famous astronaut, just my dad.
I wrote about all
these 33 in my essay.
One of our neighbors said, “I 34 you’ll win the contest, David. You're the
only one in town who could write about being the son of an astronaut.” I 35
.
I hadn’t shown anyone the essay, but now I almost hoped I wouldn’t win. I
didn’t want to win just 36 my father was an astronaut.
I won the second
prize. When I finished reading my essay, the 37 applauded. I saw my father blowing his
nose. I went back to my seat.
Dad nodded to me, 38 his throat, and put his hand on my
shoulder. “Son, this is the 39 moment of my life,” he said.
It was the proudest
moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll never be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize,
but just then, it was 40 just to be my father’s son.
