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Don't wait Until Flowers Fade
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches(路沟) along the highway I travel daily to work.
There is one 36 blue flower that has always 37 my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is 38 warm for it. Every day for 39 two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers.
This spring, I started a wildflower garden in our yard. I can look out of the 40 window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I've often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the ditch would look 41 in that bed alongside 42 wildflowers.
Everyday I 43 past the flowers thinking, "I'll stop on my way home and dig them." "Gee, I don't want to get my good clothes 44 ..." Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband 45 gave me a folding shovel(铲) one year to be used for that 46 purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was 47 to see that the highway department had moved the ditches and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, "Way to go, you 48 too long. You 49 it when you first saw them blooming this spring."
A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a terminal brain tumor(脑瘤晚期). She is 20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, 50 age and distance, we haven't been as 51 as we all would have liked. I couldn't help but 52 the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the 53 between my husband's sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful 54 that will bloom every year for us.
And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, you can bet I'll stop and 55 them to my wildflower garden.
36. A. sweet B. interesting C. different D. particular
37. A. fascinated B.struck C. caught D. charmed
38. A. too B. very C. much D. enough
39. A. extremely B. approximately C. hardly D. rarely
40. A. bedroom B. main hall C. classroom D. kitchen
41. A. great B. well C. horrible D. ugly
42. A. many B. various C. other D. colorful
43. A. walked B. drove C. went D. ran
44. A. damaged B. ready C. dirty D. smelly
45. A. ever B. once C. never D. even
46. A. expressed B. temporary C. unfinished D. long-term
47. A. annoying B. saddened C. interested D. helpless
48. A. wasted B. ignored C. thought D. waited
49. A. could have done B. need have done C. should have done D. must have done
50. A. in spite of B. regardless of C. because of D. in terms of
51. A. close B. far C. closed D. near
52. A. see B. to see C.seeing D. saw
53. A. friendship B. relationship C. support D. relative
54. A. trees B. memories C. species D. grass
55. A. dig B. rescue C. transmit D. transplant
查看习题详情和答案>>“I couldn’t survive without music，” says fifteenyearold Steve.In the morning，Steve wakes up__36__his favorite radio station.He listens to rock on the radio while he eats__37__.He puts on his personal stereo before he leaves the house and listens to cassettes on the bus to__38__.
“Last week I put my headphones on in the maths__39__，” admits Steve.“The teacher was really__40__.She took my headphones away and I couldn’t use them for a week.It was__41__.”At home Steve does his homework to music—loud music.
“My mother__42__shouts‘Turn it down！’” says Steve.“She can’t__43__how I can work__44__music on，but music__45__me to concentrate.”Steve would like to make music himself.“I’m learning to play the guitar.__46__，it doesn’t sound too good at the__47__.But I’m going to keep practising！”
For__48__like Steve，music is a very important part of__49__.Music is social；it brings people together at discos，parties and concerts.Fast，__50__music is full of energy；it helps people to__51__their problems and have__52__.Music talks about love，freedom and imagination.There are always new songs and new styles.
__53__Steve’s mother agrees that music brings some problems.“Steve is a sensible boy，” she says.“I don’t think he would ever take drugs hearing rock.But I__54__worry about his hearing with all that loud music.And it__55__me crazy！”
36．A.from B．for
C．with D．to
37．A.breakfast B．lunch
C．supper D．dinner
38．A.work B．office
C．school D．party
39．A.workshop B．class
C．dormitory D．schoolroom
40．A.excited B．worried
C．angry D．tired
41．A.terrible B．hopeless
C．poor D．surprising
42．A.usually B．seldom
C．frequently D．always
43．A.expect B．bear
C．understand D．believe
44．A.while B．at
C．for D．with
45．A.helps B．leads
C．causes D．forces
46．A.Unluckily B．Actually
C．Disappointingly D．Necessarily
47．A.first B．last
C．moment D．time
48．A.boys B．girls
C．friends D．teenagers
49．A.study B．life
C．family D．school
50．A.sound B．noisy
C．light D．loud
51．A.forget B．settle
C．remove D．leave
52．A.smiles B．future
C．fun D．sense
53．A.And B．However
C．Meanwhile D．But
54．A.can B．do
C．will D．should
55．A.causes B．results
C．drives D．leaves
查看习题详情和答案>>I don’t know how I became a writer，but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel.My people were of the working class of people.My father，a stone?cutter，was a man with a great respect and veneration (崇敬) for literature.He had a tremendous memory，and he loved poetry，and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like.Nevertheless it was good poetry，Hamlet’s Soliloquy，Macbeth，Mark Antony’s “Funeral Oration”，Grey’s “Elegy”，and all the rest of it.I heard it all as a child；I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university.The desire to write，which had been strong during all my days in high school，grew stronger still.I was editor of the college paper，the college magazine，etc.，and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in play writing which had just been established there.I wrote several little one?act plays，still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man，never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer.Then I went to Harvard，wrote some more plays there，became obsessed with (着迷于) the idea that I had to be a playwright，left Harvard，had my plays rejected，and finally in the autumn of 1926，how，why，or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine.But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel，I began to write my first book in London.I was living all alone at that time.I had two rooms—a bedroom and a sitting room—in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar，smoked brick and cream?yellow?plaster look.
1．We may conclude，in regard to the author’s development as a writer，that his father________.
A．made an important contribution
B．insisted that he choose writing as a career
C．opposed his becoming a writer
D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
2．The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of________.
A．his special talent
B．his father’s teaching and encouragement
C．his study at Harvard
D．a hidden urge within him
3．The author________.
A．began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard
B．had always been successful in his writing career
C．went to Harvard to learn to write plays
D．worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer
4．The author really started on his way to become a writer______.
A．when he was in high school
B．when he was studying at Harvard
C．when he lived in London
D．after he entered college
5．What can we learn about the author’s life in the autumn of 1926?
A．He left Harvard and got married.
B．He couldn’t make up his mind what to do.
C．He started his dream as a writer.
D．He began to think seriously what to do.
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I don’t know how I became a writer，but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel.My people were of the working class of people.My father，a stone?cutter，was a man with a great respect and veneration (崇敬) for literature.He had a tremendous memory，and he loved poetry，and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like.Nevertheless it was good poetry，Hamlet’s Soliloquy，Macbeth，Mark Antony’s “Funeral Oration”，Grey’s “Elegy”，and all the rest of it.I heard it all as a child；I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university.The desire to write，which had been strong during all my days in high school，grew stronger still.I was editor of the college paper，the college magazine，etc.，and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in play writing which had just been established there.I wrote several little one?act plays，still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man，never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer.Then I went to Harvard，wrote some more plays there，became obsessed with (着迷于) the idea that I had to be a playwright，left Harvard，had my plays rejected，and finally in the autumn of 1926，how，why，or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine.But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel，I began to write my first book in London.I was living all alone at that time.I had two rooms—a bedroom and a sitting room—in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar，smoked brick and cream?yellow?plaster look.
1．We may conclude，in regard to the author’s development as a writer，that his father________.
A．made an important contribution
B．insisted that he choose writing as a career
C．opposed his becoming a writer
D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
2．The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of________.
A．his special talent
B．his father’s teaching and encouragement
C．his study at Harvard
D．a hidden urge within him
3．The author________.
A．began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard
B．had always been successful in his writing career
C．went to Harvard to learn to write plays
D．worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer
4．The author really started on his way to become a writer______.
A．when he was in high school
B．when he was studying at Harvard
C．when he lived in London
D．after he entered college
5．What can we learn about the author’s life in the autumn of 1926?
A．He left Harvard and got married.
B．He couldn’t make up his mind what to do.
C．He started his dream as a writer.
D．He began to think seriously what to do.
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I don’t often lose things and I’m always careful with money, so I was quite surprised when I reached for my wallet and it wasn’t there. At first, I thought it was possible that I could have left it at home. Then I remembered taking it out to pay the taxi, so I knew I had it with me just before I walked into the restaurant. I wondered if it was possible that it could have dropped out of my pocket while I was eating dinner. I turned and walked back to the table where I had been sitting. Unluckily, there were several people sitting at the table at that time, so I had the waiter go over to the table to see if my wallet was on the floor. While the waiter was looking for it, the head of the restaurant came up to me and asked me if anything was wrong. I told him what had happened. He asked me to report the missing wallet to the police. I told him I didn’t want to do so; I was in a hurry because I had to reach my waiting room before two o’clock, where some sick people were waiting to see me. I also told him that my biggest worry at the moment was how I was going to pay for the meal. He told me not to worry about that. He asked me to write down my name and address, and he said he would send me a bill (帐单).
51. When the writer couldn’t find his wallet, his first thought was that________
A. it had been given to the taxi-driver B. he had dropped it in the taxi
C. he had lost his wallet again D. it might be left at home
52. The writer thought he must have the wallet with him because___________.
A. he had paid the taxi-driver B. he had paid the bill of the meal
C. the waiter had seen it on the table D. the waiter was looking for it on the floor
53. Why do you think the writer turned and walked back to the table?
A. He would phone the police about the missing of his wallet.
B. He wondered if he had dropped his wallet while eating.
C. The head of the restaurant wanted to know what was wrong.
D. Several people were sitting at the table at that time.
54. The writer of the story is probably a _________.
A. doctor B. cook(厨师) C. school teacher D. newspaper reporter
55. Which of the following words can best describe the head of the restaurant?
A. Modest. B. Kind. C. Clever. D. Greedy(贪婪).
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