2 . 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are _________, one by one. "There is my grandmother's house," I say,_________ across the bay to a shabby old house.
I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage (朝圣) with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing (追溯)_________ memory for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, _________ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of _________, and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors __________for 200 years.
We soon _________by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories _________back, swift as the tide (潮水).
Suddenly, I long to walk again in the _________where I was once so glorious a child. It still __________a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk __________the rooms in memory. Here, my mother __________in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family __________into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being __________them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise __________attentively as I talk and then says, " So this is where I __________; where I belong. "
She has __________her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human _______. To be rooted is "to have an origin". We need _________ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the __________ of "I". We must all go home again — in reality or memory.
1. A.appearing | B.moving | C.exposing | D.expanding |
2. A.referring | B.travelling | C.pointing | D.coming |
3. A.shared | B.short | C.fresh | D.treasured |
4. A.passed | B.raised | C.moved | D.sent |
5. A.home | B.duty | C.reality | D.relief |
6. A.built | B.lived | C.remained | D.explored |
7. A.catch up | B.pull up | C.step down | D.come down |
8. A.falling | B.turning | C.rushing | D.bringing |
9. A.yard | B.village | C.room | D.house |
10. A.adapts to | B.appeals to | C.belongs to | D.occurs to |
11. A.across | B.through | C.along | D.past |
12. A.lay | B.played | C.stood | D.sat |
13. A.marching | B.looking | C.breaking | D.pouring |
14. A.between | B.with | C.near | D.behind |
15. A.wonders | B.listens | C.reacts | D.agrees |
16. A.began | B.grew | C.studied | D.stayed |
17. A.deepened | B.recognized | C.accepted | D.found |
18. A.heart | B.rights | C.interest | D.behaviors |
19. 20. A.meaning | B.expression | C.connection | D.background |