题目内容
Will Maggie ________ her boy friend?
marry
marry to
marry with
married to
解析:
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和某人结婚marry sb., be married to sb.。 |
Emanuel’s father liked to declare he’d spent ages by the sea, breathing seawater. Now, away from the sea, in the hospital, his body just looked like a beached fish. His condition went from bad to worse. The doctor came from saying, “He’ll be home in a day,” “He’ll be home in a week,” to “He will be home in a month.”
When Emanuel was a teenager, if he ever seemed bored with the pier(码头), his father would shout, “What ? This isn’t good enough for you?” And later, when he suggested Emanuel take a job at the pier after high school, the boy almost laughed, and his father again said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?” And before Emanuel went to war, when he talked of marrying Maggie and becoming an engineer, his father said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?”
And now, here he was, Emanuel helped out at the pier, working evenings after his taxi job, doing his father’s labor.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. It is not until much later that children understand: their stories and all their accomplishments sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers.
One night his father, lying in hospital, was practically too weak to speak. Others comforted him. “Your old man will pull through. He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.”
When the news came that his father had died, Emanuel felt heart-broken.
In the following weeks, Emanuel’s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he were still there .She yelled at him to turn down the radio. She cooked enough food for two .One night, when Emanuel offered to help with the dishes, she said. “Your father will put them away.” Emanuel put a hand on her shoulder. “Ma,” he said softly, “Dad’s gone.”
“Gone where?” murmured Mum.
【小题1】Which of the following shows the right order of the story?
a.Emanuel’s father fell ill.
b.Emanuel helped out at pier.
c.Emanuel went to the war.
d.Emanuel wished to be an engineer.
e. Emanuel’s mother lived in a confused state
| A.bacde | B.dcabe | C.bceda | D.decba |
| A.Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them |
| B.Children wouldn’t have achieved so much without their parents’ support |
| C.Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents |
| D.Children like moving away from their parents |
| A.wake up | B.give up | C.pick up | D.get up |
| A.Emanuel’s mother was at a loss at her husband’s death. |
| B.Emanuel often helped his mother to wash the dishes. |
| C.Emanuel lived with his mother and often comforted her. |
| D.Emanuel’s mother doesn’t like to listen to the radio. |
Years after throwing a bottle-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man’s childhood message was found and returned to his mother.
Eleven years ago, a then 10-year-old boy, Joshua Baker, wrote the message, folded and put it in an empty container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died last February in a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned after a serving in the Middle East as a US marine. “I think he was just letting us know he was OK and keep doing what we are doing.” Holbrook said.
The message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11th anniversary of its being thrown into the lake. It was found by one of Baker’s closest friends, Steve Lieder, she said. Lieder and two friends were chatting near the lake when Lieder looked down and saw the bottle. He broke it open and found the note inside.
“My name is Joshua Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/98.” They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home.
She can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She said she always wondered why he didn’t put it in the nearby Wolf River, which has a much stronger current.
“I still remember
the day he wrote it, ” Holbrook said. “I couldn’t understand why he threw I in the lake. No one would never see it again. Now I know.”
【小题1】What was Joshua Baker when he died in motor vehicle accident in California?
| A.An official | B.A soldier | C.A worker | D.A teacher |
| A.The man threw the bottle into the lake without any purpose. |
| B.The man didn’t put the bottle into the nearby river because it had a strong current. |
| C.Not until recently did his mother understand why he put the bottle into the lake. |
| D.The man made the bottle-up note so as to let his parents know he was OK. |
| A.A man’s Bottle Message Found After His Death |
| B.A Ridiculous and Unbelievable Bottle Message |
| C.A Strange Bottle-up Note Appearing In a Lake |
| D.An Important Childhood Message 11 Years After His Death |