阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
When I was nine years old, I used to go to the post office with my mother, sending greeting cards to my aunt in Singapore. To me, these trips were really_______memories. And receiving mail through a mailbox outside our gate was just as exciting. My small hands could_______get the mail without using a key! I always couldn’t wait to see how much I was_____Oh, a letter! From Singapore! I would run back home and show it to my_______When there was a letter for me, I wouldn’t run—I would open it right there.
After my family moved back to Singapore, I_____going to the post office. Years later, my company sent me to Shanghai, and the post office found me again. Two years ago I celebrated my_____with five friends on top of the mountain in Longsheng, China. At sunrise we_______up to a beautiful view from the mountain top. Later in the afternoon, as we were going_____the mountain and returning from the sunrise viewing place, a_____shop caught our attention. It only sold noodles, coffee and had a China______sign.
We asked the owner if she could really send mail. She happily said yes. It seemed hard to believe,______we were at the highest top of the mountain. I picked one postcard out and asked my friends to write______a birthday note. We bought a stamp, wrote some notes and gave the shop owner the postcard.
Three weeks later, I arrived home and______my mailbox: Hello, postcard! I broke into a big smile.
That birthday postcard attracted me again to the post office and all its delights. I had______the post office all these years. Today I______send postcards to friends. And every time I am at the post office buying stamps, I cannot help but smile—how one postcard will make its way across the world and brighten up someone’s day.
36. 37. A.easily | B.simply | C.hardly | D.specially |
38. A.weighing | B.getting | C.selecting | D.accepting |
39. A.friend | B.aunt | C.mother | D.owner |
40. A.enjoyed | B.stopped | C.hated | D.considered |
41. A.wedding | B.return | C.success | D.birthday |
42. A.broke | B.woke | C.grew | D.stood |
43. 44. A.cold | B.dirty | C.small | D.modern |
45. A.Traffic | B.Life | C.Police | D.Post |
46. A.because | B.though | C.while | D.when |
47. 48. A.bought | B.repaired | C.painted | D.opened |
49. A.missed | B.influenced | C.studied | D.visited |
50. A.just | B.seldom | C.still | D.never |