10 . My memories of those nights I spent with my great-grandmother are still vivid. I_________ them all, because I have_________ else to remind me of her. While my friends_________ display treasures left to them by their grandmothers — precious china, antique silver, jewelry — all that I have of her is a scarf I’d made her.
My great-grandmother didn’t have a china-and-jewelry kind of _________. While we were under the _________, she told me many _________ stories. I felt the pain a mother feels when her only son is _________ missing after a battle. I felt the _________ a wife feels as throat cancer robs her beloved _________ of speech and ultimately of life. I felt the__________ of the Depression (大萧条), what it was like to lose your home and to __________ produce that had gone bad. My great-grandmother never cried when she __________ her past, and afterward, she always said, ” Oh, kid, it’s a great life if you don’t __________.”
A few years ago, my life took a __________ turn, and curiously, I found my great-grandmother and her stories frequently occupying my __________. I realized then that __________ she had not left me any precious objects, she had left me a treasury of stories and a wealth of__________. By turning her soul inside out to me during those nights in bed, she’d given me the greatest gift — her __________, her courage to face life head-on. Her legacy (遗赠) gave me the __________ I’d lacked. If she could survive the __________ of her life, then I knew I could, too.
1. A.remember | B.restore | C.receive | D.remark |
2. A.something | B.anything | C.everything | D.nothing |
3. A.apparently | B.curiously | C.proudly | D.instantly |
4. A.career | B.life | C.future | D.education |
5. A.pressure | B.carriers | C.covers | D.hardship |
6. A.popular | B.sad | C.scary | D.funny |
7. A.imagined | B.resisted | C.declared | D.caught |
8. A.sorrow | B.responsibility | C.annoyance | D.justice |
9. A.son | B.daughter | C.mother | D.husband |
10. A.purpose | B.hopelessness | C.competence | D.effectiveness |
11. A.pay off | B.get through | C.hang on | D.survive on |
12. A.escaped | B.related | C.transformed | D.assumed |
13. A.weaken | B.sharpen | C.understand | D.condemn |
14. A.favorable | B.careful | C.stressful | D.preventable |
15. A.mind | B.schedule | C.status | D.analysis |
16. A.if | B.when | C.since | D.although |
17. A.memories | B.resources | C.opportunities | D.alternatives |
18. A.dream | B.caution | C.criterion | D.strength |
19. A.fate | B.will | C.cash | D.identification |
20. A.aspects | B.means | C.difficulties | D.outcomes |