1 . My grandmother has been gone for many years now and while she was alive, we were not particularly ________. I lived in suburban and only saw her once each year or so. My grandmother lived alone, far away in an apartment in a splendid building which my brother, sister and I ________ “the castle”. She was ________ educated as she could speak several foreign languages.
On each Christmas morning, my brother, sister and I would run down the stairs and see a beautiful tree ________ by brightly wrapped package. We would dive into the pile with great ________, ripping the paper and revealing all the latest toys. ________, I would see an odd-looking package deep under the tree that I knew could only be from grandmother. “Another ________, just like every year!”
Although I was not interested in school, I had enormous ________ with younger children. Slowly the idea of becoming a teacher ________ and I decided to give college a try. Having a ________ made things easier for me and I began to apply myself. One day, during my favorite class of Children’s Literature, my professor ________ a list of books on a projector (投影仪) that included ________ that had been awarded a Newbery Medal or were Caldecott winners. Suddenly, memories came flooding ________.
________ a handwritten copy of my teachers’ list of classics, I raced home and ran down to the ________. There in the corner on a ________ shelf sat the most amazing collection of children’s books any teacher could hope to have. As I ran my ________ across the covers of these books, I saw my grandmother’s ________ handwriting that read, “To Elizabeth Rose, with love, from Grandmother.” Now I saw how ________ she had been and how each book was so carefully ________ at different times of my life.
1. A.friendly | B.happy | C.close | D.distant |
2. A.pictured | B.imagined | C.called | D.played |
3. A.poorly | B.well | C.better | D.good |
4. A.occupied | B.surrounded | C.painted | D.protected |
5. A.amusement | B.honour | C.delight | D.satisfaction |
6. A.Eventually | B.Suddenly | C.Gradually | D.Instantly |
7. A.package | B.book | C.toy | D.tree |
8. A.expectation | B.patience | C.confidence | D.pleasure |
9. A.took root | B.took apart | C.took place | D.took on |
10. A.goal | B.life | C.dream | D.gift |
11. A.produced | B.flashed | C.performed | D.referred |
12. A.titles | B.outlines | C.headlines | D.themes |
13. A.away | B.back | C.across | D.through |
14. A.Filled with | B.Covered with | C.Armed with | D.Loaded with |
15. A.basement | B.garage | C.classroom | D.bedroom |
16. A.wooden | B.large | C.clean | D.dusty |
17. A.toes | B.cheek | C.fists | D.fingers |
18. A.informal | B.strange | C.familiar | D.terrible |
19. A.clever | B.lovely | C.wise | D.careful |
20. A.selected | B.sent | C.packed | D.read |