Question

I have just listened to the same “lecture” given by my grandmother. And now I’m beginning to think whether she is right when she complains,  1  she frequently does, that children nowadays aren’t as well-behaved as they  2  to be. She describes in detail how she used to be told to  3  her elders and betters. She was taught to speak when she was spoken to, and when she went out  4  her own, she was  5  to say “please” and “thank you”. Children in her days, she 6 , were expected to be seen and not heard, but these days you are  7  if you ever hear parents telling their children to  8  their manners.（礼节）

If you give her the  9 , she then takes out of her writing desk the old photograph album which she keeps there, and which she is never  10  of displaying（展示）. Of course when you look  11  pictures of her parents you feel  12 that, with a father as strict-looking as that, you too would have been “seen and not heard”.  13  him sits his wife, with their children around her—Granny and her elder brothers. It always occurs to me that perhaps those long, stiff （僵硬的）, black clothes were so  14  to a little girl that she had not enough breath left to be talkative, not to mention mischievous （淘气的）.  15 must have been a dull and lonely life too,16  she stayed mainly at home during her childhood, while the brothers were  17 from an early age.

However, my childhood was much  18  than Granny’s. I went to school with my brother, I played football with him and his friends. We  19  spoke a common language, and we got up to the same mischief （淘气的人）. I would have died if I had had to  20  indoors, wearing tight, stiff clothes. 

1. A. since               B. as                    C. which                 D. because

2. A. intended            B. expected             C. used                  D. wished

3. A. respect             B. love                   C. follow                  D. understand

4. A. of                     B. in                     C. with                   D. on

5. A. glad                    B. persuaded            C. reminded               D. determined

6. A. continues                  B. forgets              C. retells                 D. delivers

7. A. right                    B. sad                   C. lucky                  D. happy

8. A. care                    B. mind                 C. notice                 D. keep

9. A. throat                  B. pleasure              C. space                 D. chance

10. A. tired                   B. bored                C. unhappy              D. disappointed

11. A. up                   B. at                   C. out                    D. for

12. A. strange               B. pleased                 C. sure                    D. surprised

13. A. Besides               B. Beside               C. Near                 D. On

14. A. heavy                B. used                   C. ugly                  D. funny

15. A. It                                    B. There               C. She                      D. This

16. A. where                       B. when                C. as a result of          D. for

17. A. made to work          B. sent to school        C. allowed to speak       D. told to stay in

18. A. better                        B. freer                        C. happier                  D. greater

19. A. both                         B. never                       C. all                       D. seldom

20. A. stay                       B. play                      C. study                             D. wait

Answer 1

1—5 BCADC         6—10 ACBDA        11—15 BCBAA       16—20 DBBCA