In the car, I secretly had a look at him through the rearview mirror (后视镜). He looked sad. “What’s the matter, honey?”“I’m nervous. I don’t know if I’ll be able to learn everything in the first grade. What if I can’t pay attention in class?”
My heart melted. I remembered being nervous on the first day of school and I thought I was the only student who felt that way. I was a nervous kid full of self-doubt. Seth behaved much better than I did.
We walked into his school together. He remembered where his new classroom was and recognized his teacher from the ice cream social party they had the day before. He sat down at his desk and chatted with a few of his classmates. He took a few photos of them (with a camera phone because I didn’t allow him to bring the real camera) and then he said in a very serious manner, “Mom, you can go home now. I’ll be OK.” And so he was.
【小题1】Seth asked his mother to take him to school probably because _______.

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    “But what if I break my arm again?” My five-year-old daughter asked. I knew how much she wanted to learn to  41 .Yet ever since she fell off her bicycle and broke her arm, she’d been  42_ .

    “Oh, honey,” I said. “I don’t think you’ll break  43  arm.”

    “But I could, couldn’t I?”

    “Yes,” I  44  and found myself struggling for the right thing to say. At times like this, I  45 I had someone who might help me find the right words to make my girl’s problems disappear. But after a painful  46  , I’d decided to remain single.

    “ I don’t want to ride,” she said and got off her bike.

    “ You know, honey,” I said. “ Almost everything you do comes with  47  . You could break your arm jumping rope. You  48 break your arm at gymnastics. Do you want to stop going to gymnastics?”

    “No,” she said. And with a  49  spirit, she agreed to try it again. I held on to her bike until she found the  50 to say, “Let’s go!” I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a brave little girl overcome a  51  .

    As we walked home, she  52  me about a conversation I had. “Why were you and grandma arguing last night?”

    My mother wanted me to marry again,  53  I told her I didn’t want to meet the Mr. Perfect she  54  for me. She said she knew Steve was the man for me.

    “It’s nothing,” I told her.

    She shrugged, “Grandma said she just wanted you to find someone to  55  .”

    “What grandma wants is for some guy to break my  56  again!” I lost control.

    She was  57  for several minutes. Then she said something  58  me to think about. “So I think love isn’t like a broken arm.”

    Unable to answer, we walked in silence. Later I did what my brave girl did that afternoon. I 59 to meet Steve.

    Steve was the man for me. We married soon. It turned out mother and my daughter were 60  .

1.1. A. speak                       B. ride                                  C. walk                         D. drive

2.. A. disappointed                   B. satisfied               

C. shamed                         D. afraid

3. A. both                           B. the other                 

C. other                    D. another

4.. A. sighed                        B. regretted              

  C. admitted                       D. whispered

5.. A. wished                       B. thought               

  C. realized                    D. decided

6.. A. experience                    B. divorce                

           C. memory                    D. mistake

7.. A. luck                             B. surprise               

           C. risks                         D. results

8.  A. could                          B. should       

         C. would                           D. must

9.. A. determined                     B. frightened            

      C. comforted                     D. encouraged

10.. A. destination                  B. sense                           C. strength                      D. courage

11.. A. shyness                    B. fear                              C. difficulty                      D. disadvantage  

12.. A. told                           B. said                              C. asked                          D. reminded

13.. A. but                          B. then                                 C. and                          D. so

14.. A. referred to                B. set side                             C. gave away                    D. picked out

15.. A. trust                           B. love                                C. help                         D. accept

16.. A. glasses                        B. habit                                 C. heart                        D. power

17.. A. nervous                      B. quiet                            C. sad                       D. serious

18.. A. for                            B. of                                   C. with                         D. by

19.. A. agreed                     B. pretended             

    C. continued                  D. stopped

20.. A. interesting                  B. curious                

C. careful                     D. right