Question

The Quiet Hero 沉默的英雄

    It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll   1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t   3    my waitress’ salary to buy.

    But what   4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were   5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I   6    I had done for them. I just hoped they   ___7  .

As I walked into the   8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9    a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It   11  :

She took a day off from her busy   12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early   13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to   16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy    17    one in the morning…

   It took me long enough to   18    it, but I finally know who the   19    hero is. Mom, I love you!

   And suddenly, it was a   20    Mother’s Day, after all.

A. admit                 B. adopt                    C. deny                    D. refuse

A. intended              B. liked                     C. tended                     D. hesitated

A. stress                  B. spare                     C. strengthen             D. spend

A. poor            B. great                     C. faithless                   D. pretty

A. merely               B. usually                  C. never                       D. often

A. wished               B. hoped                C. expected                  D. desired

A. supported            B. understood             C. approved                 D. disgusted

A. 1iving-room          B. kitchen                  C. bed loom                 D. study

A. including            B. containing             C. possessing             D. pinning

A. handwriting      B. description             C. tone                        D. scratch

A. wrote                B. recorded                C. memorized              D. read

A. event         B. content             C. schedule                  D. circumstance

A. or                    B. for                        C. but                          D. so

A. At                    B. In                         C. On                          D. By

A. impressed         B. printed                      C. presented                 D. pressed

A. buy                  B. abandon                C. get                          D. swap

A. before              B. until                     C. after                        D. when

A. see                   B. hear                      C. realize                     D. tell

A. actual               B. true                      C. imaginary             D. visual

A. sad            B. bitter                    C. happy                      D. exciting

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】C

【小題3】B

【小題4】B

【小題5】C

【小題6】A

【小題7】B

【小題8】B

【小題9】B

【小題10】A

【小題11】D

【小題12】C

【小題13】D

【小題14】C

【小題15】B

【小題16】C

【小題17】B

【小題18】C

【小題19】B

【小題20】C

解析:

年少的時候，我們心目中可能有各種各樣的英雄形象，讓我們激動、崇拜并仿效；等我們慢慢長大，才發覺真正的英雄其實就在我們身邊，他（她）們默默無聞，無私奉獻，就像文章中這位母親。

【小題1】該句句意為“但我承認2000年那個星期天對我而言苦樂參半。”

【小題2】作為單身母親，我總是不由自主想到自己的缺點。tend to do意為“傾向于”。

【小題3】服務員收入微薄，孩子們想要的很多東西我都不能勻出錢去買。share勻出。

【小題4】從下文內容可知，孩子們給母親過了一個美好的母親節，他們是偉大的孩子。

【小題5】該句句意為“他們從不無理地抱怨。”

【小題6】但作為母親，有多少事情我想為他們做卻做不到啊。wish后面的賓語從句用虛擬語氣，表示難以實現的愿望。

【小題7】我只是希望孩子們能夠理解（我的無奈）。

【小題8】從后面的to start breakfast可知，我悄悄走進廚房。

【小題9】花瓶里裝著一打紅玫瑰，表示容器中裝有什么東西，只能用contain。

【小題10】從下文內容可知，18歲的兒子給母親寫了一封短信，所以此處指的是字跡。

【小題11】該句句意為“短信的內容是”，read在此處意為“內容如下”。

【小題12】母親的時間表安排的很滿，但還是請了一天假帶兒子去見兒子心目中的英雄。

【小題13】根據句意可知上下文之間是因果關系，所以用并列連詞so。

【小題14】on與名詞或動名詞連用，表示“一……就……”。

【小題15】T恤衫上印著兒子崇拜的英雄的形象。

【小題16】比賽后，兒子當然要索取英雄的簽名。

【小題17】母親一直陪伴著兒子直到凌晨一點鐘。until引導時間狀語。

【小題18】該句句意為“我過了很長時間才意識到，誰是真正的英雄。”

【小題19】true真正的；actual實際的；imaginary想象的；visual視覺的。

【小題20】懂事的兒女讓母親感到欣慰，自然這是一個快樂的母親節。