阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选择最佳选项。

I will never forget the Sunday afternoons I spent at my grandfather’s farm in western Pennsylvania when I was a little boy. Miles of winding stone walls around the house provided endless hours of________ for a city kid like me.

I can still remember one afternoon when I was eight years old. Since my first visit to the ________, I’d wanted to be allowed to climb the stone walls around the farm. My parents would never approve(赞同). Still, my wish to climb across those walls grew so ________ . One spring afternoon, I picked up all my courage and ________ the living room, where the adults were sitting and talking over tea after dinner. “Can I climb the stone walls?” I asked. Immediately the women in the room cried. “Heavens, no! You’ll ________ yourself!” I wasn’t too disappointed; their reply was just as I’d expected. But before I could leave the room, my ________ stopped me. “Wait a minute.” I heard him say, “Let the boy climb the stone walls. He has to ________ to do things for himself.”“Hurry up,” he said to me, “and come and see me when you get back”. For the next two and a half hours I climbed those old walls and had the ________ of my life. Later I met with my grandfather to him about my adventure(冒险). I’ll never forget what he said. “Fred,” he said, smiling, “you made day a ________ day just by being yourself. Always ________ , there’s only one person in this whole world like you, and I like you exactly as you are.”

1.A. sadness B. pity C. fun D. puzzle

2.A. farm B. house C. home D. room

3.A. weak B. high C. low D. strong

4.A. visited B. entered C. saw D. left

5.A. enjoy B. hurt C. forget D. lose

6.A. mother B. father C. grandfather D. friend

7.A. agree B. finish C. promise D. learn

8.A. time B. love C. regret D. failure

9.A. terrible B. difficult C. special D. hopeless

10.A. hope B. forget C. value D. remember

完形填空.

Once upon a time,there was a lazy poor living in a small house with spider webs(蜘蛛网) on the walls and mice running around.People ______ coming into such a dirty place and the poor man was lonely and sad every day.He thought it was poverty(贫困) that______ his unhappy life.One day,the poor man dropped in on a wise old man and asked him for ______ about changing his life.The old man gave him a beautiful vase(花瓶) and said,“This is a magic vase that will bring you ______.”The poor man looked at the vase ______.Why would he need a vase in his poor house?However,he didn’t want to ______ such a beautiful vase,so he brought it home on the table.“It.s not right for something so beautiful to be ______.”the poor man looked at the vase and thought.Then he picked some wild flowers and put them into it,making it even more beautiful.______ he was still not satisfied.“It is not good for such a beautiful thing to stand next to a spider web.”At this,he started to do some cleaning in the house and paint the walls.His house turned into ______ place immediately.The poor man ______.He suddenly realized that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy.From then on,he worked hard and his life got better and better.

1.A.enjoyed B.avoided C.forgot D.considered

2.A.led to B.connected to C.made up D.set up

3.A.service B.knowledge C.advice D.care

4.A.peace B.happiness C.mess D.regret

5.A.sadly B.nervously C.proudly D.surprisedly

6.A.throw away B.give out C.pay for D.keep off

7.A.ugly B.Full C.empty D.dirty

8.A.Although B.But C.So D.Because

9.A.large B.dark C.strange D.comfortable

10.A.cheered up B.rang up C.sped up D.stayed up.

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