Question

The Quiet Hero 沉默的英雄

    It was Mother’s Day, the day we celebrate everything mothers are and everything we do. But I’ll   1    that Sunday in 2000 was bittersweet for me. As a single mother I   2    to think of my shortcomings — how many evenings I couldn’t spend with my children, and how many things I couldn’t   3    my waitress’ salary to buy.

    But what   4    kids I had! My daughter Maria was a senior in college, and Denny was home visiting from his freshman year at Harvard University. They were   5    impolite enough to complain, but there was so much more I   6    I had done for them. I just hoped they   ___7  .

As I walked into the   8    quietly to start breakfast, I was greeted by a vase   9    a dozen red roses! When had Denny possibly slipped down to leave them? But even their delicate beauty was overshadowed by the note sitting beside them, in the quick, manly   10    of an eighteen-year-old. It was about a story that happened between Denny and me long ago. It   11  :

She took a day off from her busy   12    to take the boy to see his hero in the flesh at the stadium. It took 3.5 hours just to get there, and they had to be there early   13    he could see his hero take batting practice.   14    their arrival, she took her hard-earned money to buy an overpriced T-shirt on which was   15    his hero making a diving catch. After the game, of course he had to   16    his hero’s signature, so she stayed with the little boy    17    one in the morning…

   It took me long enough to   18    it, but I finally know who the   19    hero is. Mom, I love you!

   And suddenly, it was a   20    Mother’s Day, after all.

A. admit                 B. adopt                    C. deny                    D. refuse

A. intended              B. liked                     C. tended                     D. hesitated

A. stress                  B. spare                     C. strengthen             D. spend

A. poor            B. great                     C. faithless                   D. pretty

A. merely               B. usually                  C. never                       D. often

A. wished               B. hoped                C. expected                  D. desired

A. supported            B. understood             C. approved                 D. disgusted

A. 1iving-room          B. kitchen                  C. bed loom                 D. study

A. including            B. containing             C. possessing             D. pinning

A. handwriting      B. description             C. tone                        D. scratch

A. wrote                B. recorded                C. memorized              D. read

A. event         B. content             C. schedule                  D. circumstance

A. or                    B. for                        C. but                          D. so

A. At                    B. In                         C. On                          D. By

A. impressed         B. printed                      C. presented                 D. pressed

A. buy                  B. abandon                C. get                          D. swap

A. before              B. until                     C. after                        D. when

A. see                   B. hear                      C. realize                     D. tell

A. actual               B. true                      C. imaginary             D. visual

A. sad            B. bitter                    C. happy                      D. exciting

Answer 1

【小题1】A

【小题2】C

【小题3】B

【小题4】B

【小题5】C

【小题6】A

【小题7】B

【小题8】B

【小题9】B

【小题10】A

【小题11】D

【小题12】C

【小题13】D

【小题14】C

【小题15】B

【小题16】C

【小题17】B

【小题18】C

【小题19】B

【小题20】C

解析:

年少的时候，我们心目中可能有各种各样的英雄形象，让我们激动、崇拜并仿效；等我们慢慢长大，才发觉真正的英雄其实就在我们身边，他（她）们默默无闻，无私奉献，就像文章中这位母亲。

【小题1】该句句意为“但我承认2000年那个星期天对我而言苦乐参半。”

【小题2】作为单身母亲，我总是不由自主想到自己的缺点。tend to do意为“倾向于”。

【小题3】服务员收入微薄，孩子们想要的很多东西我都不能匀出钱去买。share匀出。

【小题4】从下文内容可知，孩子们给母亲过了一个美好的母亲节，他们是伟大的孩子。

【小题5】该句句意为“他们从不无理地抱怨。”

【小题6】但作为母亲，有多少事情我想为他们做却做不到啊。wish后面的宾语从句用虚拟语气，表示难以实现的愿望。

【小题7】我只是希望孩子们能够理解（我的无奈）。

【小题8】从后面的to start breakfast可知，我悄悄走进厨房。

【小题9】花瓶里装着一打红玫瑰，表示容器中装有什么东西，只能用contain。

【小题10】从下文内容可知，18岁的儿子给母亲写了一封短信，所以此处指的是字迹。

【小题11】该句句意为“短信的内容是”，read在此处意为“内容如下”。

【小题12】母亲的时间表安排的很满，但还是请了一天假带儿子去见儿子心目中的英雄。

【小题13】根据句意可知上下文之间是因果关系，所以用并列连词so。

【小题14】on与名词或动名词连用，表示“一……就……”。

【小题15】T恤衫上印着儿子崇拜的英雄的形象。

【小题16】比赛后，儿子当然要索取英雄的签名。

【小题17】母亲一直陪伴着儿子直到凌晨一点钟。until引导时间状语。

【小题18】该句句意为“我过了很长时间才意识到，谁是真正的英雄。”

【小题19】true真正的；actual实际的；imaginary想象的；visual视觉的。

【小题20】懂事的儿女让母亲感到欣慰，自然这是一个快乐的母亲节。