Question

【題目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it.)

I don’t remember ever slamming my door 【1】 anger at her and shouting, “You just don’t understand!” Because she did understand.

One month before my high-school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment, fear and over-whelming anger that my dad was missing some of 【2】(important) events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, the senior-class play and the prom. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, 【3】 not hear of my skipping any of those things.

The day before my father died, my mother and I 【4】 (go) shopping for a prom dress. We’d found a spectacular one, with yards of dotted Swiss in red, white and blue. 【5】 made me feel like Scarlett O’ Hara, but it was the wrong size. When my father died, I forgot the dress.

My mother didn’t. The day before the prom, I found that dress – in the right size – draped majestically over the living room sofa. It 【6】(present) to me – beautifully, artistically, lovingly. I didn’t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel 【7】 (love) and lovable, creative and imaginative, imbued with a sense【8】 there was magic in the world and beauty in the face of adversity. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see 【9】 much like the gardenia – lovely, strong and perfect – with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.

My mother died ten days after I was married, I was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped 【10】 (come).

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】in

【2】the most important

【3】would

【4】had gone

【5】It

【6】was presented

【7】loved

【8】that

【9】themselves

【10】coming

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文，作者回憶了母親送自己舞會禮服和梔子花來讓她感受到自己是被愛著的，也讓她相信即使在面對厄運的時候，世上仍有奇跡和美好的東西。

【1】考查介詞。句意：我不記得我曾經(jīng)對她怒氣沖沖地摔過門。in anger表示“憤怒地、生氣地”，故填in。

【2】考查形容詞最高級。句意：我百感交集，悲傷、失望、恐懼，甚至非常氣憤，因為父親再也不能參加我一生中的某些最重要的活動了。根據(jù)“in my life”可知此處含有最高級之意，表示“一生中最重要的活動”，故填the most important。

【3】考查情態(tài)動詞和時態(tài)。句意：我對即將到來的畢業(yè)典禮、高年級的戲劇表演和舞會完全不感興趣了。但是我那處于悲傷之中的母親不允許我跳過任何一件事情。根據(jù)空后的動詞原形“hear”可知此處需要填情態(tài)動詞，表示“愿意”，故填would。

【4】考查時態(tài)。句意：父親去世的前一天，我和母親去買了一件舞會禮服。go表示的動作發(fā)生在died之前，也就是過去的過去，應(yīng)該用過去完成時，故填had gone。

【5】考查代詞。句意：它讓我覺得像斯嘉麗·奧哈拉。此處指代前文中的那件好看的舞會禮服，故填It。

【6】考查時態(tài)語態(tài)。句意：它被完美地、藝術(shù)地、充滿愛意地呈現(xiàn)在我面前。It 與present之間是被動關(guān)系，而且事情發(fā)生在過去，所以用一般過去時的被動語態(tài)，主語是第三人稱單數(shù)，故填 was presented。

【7】考查形容詞。句意：她希望自己的孩子感受到備受寵愛又討人喜歡， 富有創(chuàng)造力和想象力，充滿這樣一種感覺，那就是即使在面對厄運的時候，世上仍有奇跡和美好的東西。此處缺少形容詞作feel的表語，表示“被愛著的、受寵愛的”，故填loved。

【8】考查同位語從句。句意同上，此處為同位語從句，解釋sense的具體內(nèi)容，從句成分完整，所以用that僅起連接作用，無實義，故填that。

【9】考查代詞。句意：我的母親希望她的孩子們能像梔子花一樣看待自己——可愛、堅強(qiáng)、完美。

根據(jù)句意可知此處指“孩子們自己”，故填themselves。

【10】考查非謂語動詞。句意：也正是從那一年起，再也沒人送來梔子花了。stop doing 停止做某事，故填coming。