Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12,a white gardenia(栀子花)was sent to my house. No card came with it.Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's name and was just very pleased with the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.

But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be, Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged this imagining. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man who I looked after when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy.

One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt very sad and didn't want to go to the coming graduation dance at all. And I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.

My mother died ten days after l was married. I was22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案,并将其标号填入题前括号内。

1.The girl got _____________ on her birthday every year since she was 12.

A. A white flower with a card. B. A white flower in pink paper.

C. A card with some best wishes. D. A book with a white cover

2.Who was the sender?

A. The shop owner B. Someone who had got the help from the girl.

C. A boy who loved the girl secretly. D. The girl’s mom

3.What happened one month before the girl’s graduation?

A. She missed the graduation dance B. She didn’t have a new dress.

C. Her father died D. Her mother died

4.What did the mother want her children to be like?

A. Lovely, strong and prefect B. Successful, strong and mysterious

C. Lovable, successful and funny D. Happy, mysterious and helpful

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Gardenia’s love B. A birthday present

C. A girl’s imagination D. A mother’s love

根据短文内容回答下列问题

“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning to surf the Internet.”

“ I checked my e-mail almost forty times a day.”

“I seldom spend less than three hours each time on the net.”

“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-life’ friends.”

Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction (瘾) called Internet addiction. According to experts, Internet addicts (迷) spends at least thirty to forty hours online every week. They lose control of the time they spend on the Internet.

For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried and looked for him everywhere but couldn’t find him. They called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the Internet—for seven days straight.

A study shows that about six to ten percent of Internet users become addicted. The teenagers spend more time on the Internet than with friends and family. That’s why some experts worry most about young people.

Is “surfing the Internet” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have one of the following symptoms (症状).

You go out with your friends less and less.

You’ve decide to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.

You do not go to important family events or you do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the Internet.

What is the situation? Some experts suggest that people set strict limits on their time for Internet use. You have to learn to control it, or the Internet would control you.

1.How many hours does an Internet addict spend online every week according to experts?

2.Where was the missing college student found?

3.Why do some experts worry most about young people?

4.What is one symptom of Internet addiction?

5.How can Internet addicts solve their problem?

6.What might be the title of this passage? (In no more than TEN words)

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