Dad taught me a lot about life, especially its hard times. I remembered one of his ___21___ one night when I was ready to ___22___ a political campaign I was losing, and wrote about it in my diary.
Tired, feeling the months of ___23___ in vain, I went up to my study to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil in the back of my desk drawer ___24___ I turned up one of Dad’s old business cards that he was proud of: Andrea Cuomo Italian-American Groceries --- Fine Imported Products. Then I thought about how he ___25___ with difficult situations. A lot of pictures ___26___ into my mind, but one scene came sharply into ___27___.
We had just moved to Holliswood, New York. We had our own house for the first time; it had some land around it, even trees. One, ___28___, was a great blue spruce (云杉) that must have been 40 feet tall.
Less than a week after we moved in, there was a terrible storm. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost ___29___ from the ground and thrown onto the street. When my brother Frankie and I saw the spruce, our hearts ___30___. But not Dad’s.
The rain was falling. Then he ___31___ , “Ok, we’re going to push him up!” “ What are you talking about, Dad? The ___32___ are out of the ground!” “ Shut up, we’re going to push him up, he’s going to grow again.” We couldn’t say ___33___ to him. So we ___34___ him into the house and got what rope ___35___ was and tied it around the top of the tree that lay on the street, and then he stood up by the house, ___36___
me pulling on the rope, and Frankie in the street in the rain, ___37___ to push up the great blue spruce. In no ___38___ at all, we had him standing up straight again! Dad ___39___ the stakes (桩) in the ground, tied the rope from the trunk to the stakes, and said, “ Don’t worry. He’s going to grow again…”
I looked at the card and wanted to cry. I ___40 ___ wait to get back into the campaign.
小题1:.
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| A．ideas | B．lessons | C．talks | D．conversations |
小题2:.
| A．bury | B．attempt | C．trap | D．quit |
小题3:.
| A．struggle | B．operation | C．performance | D．application |
小题4:.
| A．as | B．before | C．while | D．when |
小题5:.
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| A．did | B．occupied | C．settled | D．dealt |
小题6:.
| A．appeared | B．bumped | C．leapt | D．burst |
小题7:.
| A．spot | B．view | C．scene | D．site |
小题8:.
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| A．in relief | B．in need | C．in particular | D．in all |
小题9:.
| A．absolutely | B．accidentally | C．totally | D．automatically |
小题10:.
| A．suffered | B．carved | C．sank | D．infected |
小题11:.
| A．announced | B．challenged | C．barked | D．distributed |
小题12:.
| A．trunks | B．roots | C．branches | D．leaves |
小题13:.
| A．anything | B．no | C．nothing | D．something |
小题14:.
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| A．accompanied | B．hiked | C．joined | D．followed |
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小题17:.
| A．to help | B．helped | C．helping | D．help |
小题18:.
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| A．problem | B．time | C．way | D．means |
小题19:.
| A．drove | B．removed | C．delivered | D．dragged |
小题20:.
| A．needn’t | B．wouldn’t | C．shouldn’t | D．couldn’t |
me pulling on the rope, and Frankie in the street in the rain, ___37___ to push up the great blue spruce. In no ___38___ at all, we had him standing up straight again! Dad ___39___ the stakes (桩) in the ground, tied the rope from the trunk to the stakes, and said, “ Don’t worry. He’s going to grow again…”