Father and his crew radioed for help when water started pouring in his ship. We flew out there about an hour ago and dropped them a pump. “Take it easy. He will be back soon.” “What if the pump doesn’t work?” Mom questioned. “You should do another fly-over.” The man tried to comfort Mom, “He must be all right now, Mrs Hemingway, or we would have heard a radio signal from him.” “You haven’t got a Mayday?” “No, but we will let you know if we hear the radio signal.” Mom hung up.
I remained crying. Mom called the Coast Guard again. Finally, they said they would send out a rescue plane.
At midnight the phone rang. It was the Coast Guard. They had found my father and all his crew floating in sea 15miles off Jamaica. Dad’s ship had sunk, but fortunately all were safe.
“The pump they dropped didn’t work fast enough,” Dad said. “I radioed a Mayday, but I couldn’t get through.”
Dad didn’t get through to the Coast Guard because of the storm, but he got through to us. Really, there is something that can’t be seen but exists, as is said but can’t be explained, between us, the families. 

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “Mayday” in the first paragraph probably means “_________”.

    1. A.
      a radio program                                       
    2. B.
      the signal for help   
    3. C.
      the holiday in May                                          
    4. D.
      a sign of feeling sick
  2. 2.

    Why did the man on duty say the author’s father would return soon?

    1. A.
      The pump they dropped was of high quality.
    2. B.
      The author’s father called him and told him so.
    3. C.
      The plane waited until the pump worked.
    4. D.
      He thought no news was good news.
  3. 3.

    We can infer from the text that _________.

    1. A.
      the man on duty in the Coast Guard was careless
    2. B.
      the plane failed to find the ship which was in danger
    3. C.
      the author’s father was in charge of the ship
    4. D.
      the pump saved the author’s father finally
  4. 4.

    What may be the explanation for the author’s (as a baby) crying?

    1. A.
      He might feel hungry in the evening
    2. B.
      He might see something terrible in the room.
    3. C.
      He might be afraid when left alone in room
    4. D.
      He might have a feeling of uneasiness.
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On the way we met Mrs. Patric, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls. There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.
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It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the housed. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn’t mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are.”
The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to “go park, see duck.” “I can’t go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when I’m through I’ll be too tired to walk that far.”
My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. “It’s a wonderful day,” she offered, “really warm, yet there’s a fine breeze. Do you remember that day we flew kites?”
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“Say!” A smile sipped out from his lips. “Do you remember --- no, of course you wouldn’t. It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”
I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”
“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp (戰(zhàn)俘營(yíng)), when things weren’t too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”
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B．her husband would make fun of her
C．she should have been doing her housework
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B．They should have finished their work before playing.
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D．All the others must have forgotten that day.
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B．She was reminded of the day they flew kites.
C．She had finished her work in the kitchen.
D．She thought it was a great day to play outside.
【小題5】 The youngest Patrick boy is mentioned to show that ______.
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B．his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life
C．childhood friendship means so much to the writer
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B．made a fool of himself in face of his friends

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2.The underlined word “profound” in Paragraph 3 probably means   “          ”  .

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B．simple and easy to solve

C．very funny or interesting

D．that often takes place

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B．Because it was the fist time he communicated with his little son.

C．Because his little son didn’t make trouble and behaved quite well.

D．Because his son could understand the meaning of SpongeBob.

4.The author mainly tells us in the last paragraph that         .

A．one’s memories can last all one’s lifetime.

B．we should forget the unpleasant memories.

C．good memories are the treasures of our life.

D．how we should deal with our memories.

 

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