Question

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

  In your childhood, you’ve probably listened to plenty of bedtime stories. But as you get older, you get less interested in them. One father didn’t stop his nightly reading of bedtime stories.

Jim Brozina is a single father. When his older daughter Kathy was in the fourth grade, he always read to her at bedtime.____1___. He didn’t want this happen with his younger daughter, Kristen. So when Kristen entered the fourth grade, Jim suggested a challenge: they should read together for 100 days without missing a single story time.

On November 11, 1997, they started the challenge, which they called “The Streak”. When “The Streak” reached 100, Kristen whispered, “I think we should try for 1,000 nights.” _____2______. However, he was not sure whether they’d be able to complete it. “And then we got to 1,000, and we said, “How can we stop?””Jim said.

______3______. As Kristen grew older, the reading material changed from picture books to Harry Potter. Her father never let her miss any reading until Kristen left home for college.

Even though both Kristen and her father love books, “The Streak” was about more than that. Jim has kept 700 of his daughter’s favourite books. He will give them to his daughter one day so that she can begin “The Streak” with her own children. “______4_____. It’s a way for me to touch generations I’ll never see,” said Jim.

A. Jim was excited at the idea B. Jim read to Kristen every day C. Jim stopped reading to Kathy D. But one night she said she had had enough E. I hope they’ll carry the tradition on as well

Answer 1

1. D    2. A    3. B   4. E