Question

My Forever Valentine 我永遠(yuǎn)的“情人”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】B

【小題3】D

【小題4】C

【小題5】B

【小題6】C

【小題7】A

【小題8】D

【小題9】B

【小題10】A

【小題11】D

【小題12】C

【小題13】A

【小題14】B

【小題15】C

【小題16】B

【小題17】D

【小題18】A

【小題19】B

【小題20】D

解析:

提到情人節(jié)，人們可能馬上聯(lián)想到鮮花、巧克力以及年輕的戀人們。情人其實(shí)是一個(gè)古老而廣泛的概念，包括所有我們深?lèi)?ài)的人以及深?lèi)?ài)著我們的人，比如我們的父母。

【小題1】think of … as …是固定短語(yǔ)，意為“把……視為／看作……”。

【小題2】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(kāi)始的�！�

【小題3】卡片上有父親的簽名。該選項(xiàng)從下文也可得到提示。

【小題4】戒指上紅玻璃象征／代表著我的誕生石——紅寶石。

【小題5】對(duì)一個(gè)六歲的孩子而言，紅玻璃和紅寶石沒(méi)有什么不同。  

【小題6】表示佩戴首飾只能用wear。

【小題7】世界上所有的卡片都不能超過(guò)它。

【小題8】as在此處引導(dǎo)時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)從句，意為“隨著”。

【小題9】give way to是固定短語(yǔ)，意為“為……所代替”。

【小題10】該題可采用排除法，修飾巧克力不能用“可愛(ài)的；親愛(ài)的；寶貴的”但可以用“最喜愛(ài)的”。  

【小題11】父親的卡片是特殊的。

【小題12】該句句意為“而我的感謝越來(lái)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。

【小題13】這些卡片看起來(lái)已經(jīng)不是那么重要。

【小題14】我想當(dāng)然地認(rèn)為情人節(jié)年年都有。

【小題15】我把夢(mèng)想和希望放在收到那些來(lái)自“重要的其他人”的卡片和禮物上。

【小題16】來(lái)自父親的賀卡似乎遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不能夠（滿(mǎn)足女兒的需要）。

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

【小題18】父親表達(dá)的是一種傳統(tǒng)的愛(ài)。

【小題19】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(huà)表達(dá)了女兒對(duì)父親永遠(yuǎn)的懷念。

【小題20】根據(jù)該句句意，stop doing sth.符合語(yǔ)境。