完型填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上涂黑。
“Never say die'' was my mother's motto.No matter how tough the life was, she always had
36 in the face of struggle and change.
My mother , born in the late 1920s,
37 no education.Her mother, whom she loved dearly , died when she was 12 years old.Her father remarried,
38 he stepmother was
39 to her.As a result, my mother was always kept busy doing ail kinds of household
40 ,varying from feeding scores of tame birds to
_41 her stepbrothers "Never say die" she
42 __say to herself.
After marrying my father , she
43 my grandparents as her own parents.It was a Lime when China was faced with a severe
44 of food and my family was no
45 .There was a
46 in my family that the best food went to the old and she was always the last to have her meal.At one time , there wasn't a grain left at home, and the whole family got into a
_47 "Never say die" said my mother, as she often did in such cases- She, together with my elder sisters—one 8 years old and the other 11, went begging until the
48 picked up.My father was once
49_ to drinking.My mother, on the one hand , tried hard to
50 him to quit drinking; on the other hand, every time my father was heavily drunk; she would feed two thermos bottles of boiled water to him ,using the mouth-to-mouth way.
Poor as my family was my parents
51 to send my sisters to school, which was absolutely
52 in my home village then.Now my sisters have both retired as primary school teachers.Then my mother devoted herfelf entirely to
53 her grandchildren, among whom are now two university students, a soldier, an engineer, a bank c’erk and a civil servant.
Devoted to the family, she is deeply respected and loved by her children and grandchildren. Every year a family get-together takes place on her birthday when the whole family
54 being blessed with such a great mother. “Never say die” is a
55 gift she left for her off springs.
小题1: | A.energy | B.strength | C.power | D.force |
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小题2: | A.received | B.accepted | C.gave | D.took |
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小题4: | A.cruel | B.strict | C.hard | D.particular |
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小题5: | A.events | B.incidents | C.affairs | D.accidents |
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小题6: | A.looking after | B.looking for | C.looking into | D.looking up |
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小题7: | A.would | B.could | C.should | D.might |
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小题8: | A.considered | B.regarded | C.took | D.treated |
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小题9: | A.short | B.lacking | C.lack | D.lacked |
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小题10: | A.reception | B.expectation | C.explosion | D.exception |
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小题11: | A.tradition | B.habit | C.custom | D.practice |
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小题12: | A.trouble | B.panic | C.puzzle | D.pain |
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小题13: | A.condition | B.situation | C.occasion | D.cii5e |
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小题14: | A.addicted | B.devoted | C.accustomed | D.used |
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小题15: | A.advise | B.suggest | C.talk | D.convince |
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小题16: | A.succeeded | B.managed | C.tried | D.attempted |
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小题17: | A.uneasy | B.unfit | C.unusual | D.universal |
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小题18: | A.bringing up | B.raising | C.supporting | D.feeding |
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小题19: | A.understand | B.enjoy | C.imagine | D.appreciate |
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小题20: | A.worthless | B.priceless | C.endless | D.penniless |
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