Question

Valentine’s Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly (天真的) thought   1   him as my “Valentine man”.

My first recollection of the   2   he could bring to Valentine’s Day came when I was six. That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a gift-wrapped package at my chair. The card was   3   “Love, Dad” and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to   4   my birthstone, a ruby (紅寶石). There is   5   difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember   6   that ring with pride that all the cards in the world   7   not surpass (超越).

  8   I grew older, the gifts gave   9   to heart-shaped boxes filled with my   10__   chocolate and always included a   11   card signed “Love, Dad”. In those years my thank-you became   12   of a perfunctory (敷衍) response. The cards seemed less   13  , and I took for granted that the Valentine would   14   be there. I had   15   my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from “significant others” and “Love Dad” just didn’t seem quite   16  .

His final card remains on my desk today. It’s a   17   of how special fathers can be and how important it has been to me over the years to know that I had a father who continued a   18_        of love with simple acts of understanding and an ability to express happiness over the people in his life.

Those things never   19  , nor does the memory of a man who never   20   being my Valentine.

1. A. of           B. about       C. up              D. over

2. A. memory      B. magic        C. puzzle            D. presents

3. A. read           B. written             C. shown           D. signed

4. A. recover      B. resemble        C. represent              D. replace

5. A. much        B. little           C. great             D. less

6. A. having       B. owning       C. wearing         D. watching

7. A. could         B. did             C. must             D. should

8. A. Because     B. Since          C. When            D. As

9. A. room         B. way            C. honour          D. seat

10. A. favorite    B. lovely          C. dear                  D. precious

11. A. usual        B. common        C. strange         D. special

12. A. less         B. little            C. more             D. much

13. A. important     B. beautiful       C. familiar          D. standard

14. A. surely      B. always        C. regularly        D. often

15. A. let        B. kept            C. placed            D. remembered

16. A. suitable      B. enough         C. effective         D. sacred

17. A. signal        B. certificate     C. consequence      D. reminder

18. A. tradition       B. hobby        C. habit             D. custom

19. A. lose          B. die             C. miss             D. appear

20. A. thought     B. wanted           C. tried            D. stopped

Answer 1

1--  20      ABDCB   CADBA   DCABC   BDABD  

解析:

1. A  think of … as …是固定短語，意為“把……視為／看作……”。

2. B  該句大意為“我對(duì)情人節(jié)的記憶最早是從我六歲那年開始的�！�

3. D  卡片上有父親的簽名。該選項(xiàng)從下文也可得到提示。

4. C  戒指上紅玻璃象征／代表著我的誕生石——紅寶石。

5. B  對(duì)一個(gè)六歲的孩子而言，紅玻璃和紅寶石沒有什么不同。  

6. C  表示佩戴首飾只能用wear。

7. A  世界上所有的卡片都不能超過它。

8. D  as在此處引導(dǎo)時(shí)間狀語從句，意為“隨著”。

9. B  give way to是固定短語，意為“為……所代替”。

10. A  該題可采用排除法，修飾巧克力不能用“可愛的；親愛的；寶貴的”但可以用“最喜愛的”。  

11. D  父親的卡片是特殊的。

12. C  該句句意為“而我的感謝越來越成為一種敷衍的回應(yīng)�！睆纳舷挛目芍�，此處是與以前相對(duì)比。

13. A  這些卡片看起來已經(jīng)不是那么重要。

14. B  我想當(dāng)然地認(rèn)為情人節(jié)年年都有。

15. C  我把夢(mèng)想和希望放在收到那些來自“重要的其他人”的卡片和禮物上。

16. B  來自父親的賀卡似乎遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不能夠（滿足女兒的需要）。

17. D  父親送我的最后一張卡片在提醒著我：父親對(duì)子女的愛是多么特別又是多么重要。

18. A  父親表達(dá)的是一種傳統(tǒng)的愛。

19. B  該句句意為“這些事情永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)消逝，就如同我對(duì)一位男子的記憶，他永遠(yuǎn)是我的情人�！边@句話表達(dá)了女兒對(duì)父親永遠(yuǎn)的懷念。

20. D  根據(jù)該句句意，stop doing sth.符合語境。