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    科目： 来源：高考真题 题型：阅读理解

    阅读理解。
         Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven.
    His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes.
    Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in
    Italy and studying local specialties (地方特色菜) in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known
    for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends.
    Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking.
    Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-
    hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after
    classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went
    beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
         Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says
    Lieberman's charisma is key. "Food TV isn't about food anymore," says Flay. "It's about your personality
    (个性) and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show."
         But Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new how,
    Lieberman was back in his won small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company (航空公司) was
    looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights,
    Lieberman got the job.
    1. We can learn from the text that Lieberman's family _____.
    A. have relatives in Europe
    B. love cooking at home
    C. often hold parties
    D. own a restaurant
    2. The Food Network got to know Lieberman _____.
    A. at one of his parties
    B. from his teachers
    C. through his taped show
    D. on a television program
    3. What does the word "charisma" underlined in the text refer to?
    A. A natural ability to attract others.
    B. A way to show one's achievement.
    C. Lieberman's after-class interest.
    D. Lieberman's fine cooking skill.
    4. Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?
    A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.
    B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
    C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
    D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.
    5. What can we learn about Lieberman from the text?
    A. He is clever but lonely.
    B. he is friendly and active.
    C. He enjoys traveling around.
    D. He often changes his menus.

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    科目： 来源：四川省高考真题 题型：完形填空

    完形填空。
         It's fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on
    summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito (蚊子) bites. Right before   1   
    Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma   2   me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the   3 
     like me. She said, "There's an old saying-the   4   you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter your blood 
      5   to the mosquitoes. " Not   6   it, I replied, "Grandma, that's just an old wives' tale!"
         Well, less than a week   7   my arrival in Manila, I was already carpeted with a   8   of mosquito bites. I
    took many measures to keep myself from being   9   , but they all proved useless.
         Late one  10   in my cousin's home, I couldn't bear the  11  of the bites. Hoping to find some comfort, I 
    12  my cousin, who was sleeping peacefully in the bed next to mine. Unhappy for being  13  she said, "There
    nothing you can do. Go back to sleep." With a few turns, she slept again. Enviously (妒嫉地)  14  her sleep,
    I hoped a big mosquito would  15  on her face. However, the mosquitoes would just lightly dance around her
    forehead and fly away quickly, never biting her. Amazed (惊奇的), I ran to others'  16 , only to find they were
    all sleeping  17  as the same thing occurred again and again. From those bites, I came to  18  my grandma's silly
    tale.
         From then on, I've always tried to keep a(n)  19  mind about those strange old wives' tales  20  they do have
    some truth to them.
    (     )1. A. leaving  
    (     )2. A. persuaded
    (     )3. A. students 
    (     )4. A. earlier  
    (     )5. A. grows    
    (     )6. A. expecting
    (     )7. A. after    
    (     )8. A. shade    
    (     )9. A. touched  
    (     )10. A. morning 
    (     )11. A. noise   
    (     )12. A. woke up 
    (     )13. A. blamed  
    (     )14. A. having  
    (     )15. A. land    
    (     )16. A. houses  
    (     )17. A. joyfully
    (     )18. A. tell    
    (     )19. A. open    
    (     )20. A. and     

    B. passing     
    B. reminded        
    B. foreigners  
    B. longer        
    B. goes        
    B. understanding     
    B. before    
    B. pile              
    B. bitten        
    B. afternoon     
    B. hit           
    B. shouted at    
    B. interrupted  
    B. watching      
    B. fly            
    B. flats            
    B. anxiously     
    B. know        
    B. active      
    B. so        

    		C. visiting          
    C.  warned               
    C. passengers       
    C. sooner            
    C. flows             
    C. recognizing         
    C. when          
    C. cloud                
    C. defeated            
    C. evening           
    C. pain                
    C. looked for        
    C. moved         
    C. making            
    C. fall                
    C. rooms               
    C. soundlessly     
    C. remember         
    C. clear               
    C. because            		D. finding            
    D.  informed               
    D. visitors           
    D. later                
    D. remains               
    D. believing             
    D. as                 
    D. blanket                
    D. discovered             
    D. night                
    D. effect                  
    D. dropped on       
    D. frightened       
    D. helping                 
    D. wait                 
    D. homes                   
    D. worriedly        
    D. accept               
    D. honest                 
    D. until            

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    科目： 来源：四川省高考真题 题型：阅读理解

    阅读理解。
         Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was
    drawing to a close.
         When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was
    expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation,
    but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before
    his 48th birthday.
         Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist (心理学家), had had many conversations with him, and the more
    he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered
    a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework,
    promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his
    father had died. Jim's father was 48.
         "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says."He felt that if he had not asked
    him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation
    was the trial (判决) he had expected for forty years." Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to
    the age of 48.
         Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude (态度) plays in physical health, and that childhood
    experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct
    than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as
    cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
    1. Jim was sent back to operation because _____.
    A. his heart didn't work well
    B. he expected a full recovery
    C. his life was drawing to a close
    D. the first one wasn't well performed
    2. What made Dr. Smoller feel strange about Jim's case?
    A. Jim died at a young age.
    B. Jim died on the operating table.
    C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.
    D. Jim's death is closely connected with his father's.
    3. From Smoller's words, we can infer that ______.
    A. Jim's father cared little about his study
    B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father
    C. Jim thought he would be punished some day
    D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn't live to the age of 48
    4. Which of the following could have strong effect on one's physical health according to the text.?
    a. One's genes.     
    b. One's life in childhood.    
    c. One's physical education.
    d. The date of one's birthday.            
    e. The opinions one has about something.
    A. a, b, d       
    B. a, b, e       
    C. a, c, e       
    D. b, c, d

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    科目： 来源：四川省高考真题 题型：阅读理解

    阅读理解。

         I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish,
    I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for
    good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and
    make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that
    a person could not have a"complicated (复杂的) idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I
    heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely
    determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title
    I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included
    only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)
         There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an
    English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the"hundred most important books
    of Western Civilization.""More than anything else in my life, " the professor told the reporter with finality,"
    these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn't ignore (忽视). I kept the
    list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood.
    While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book
    to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of
    a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I
    persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

    1. On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought ______.
    A. one must read as many books as possible
    B. a student should not have a complicated idea
    C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
    D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read
    2. While at high school, the writer ______.
    A. had plans for reading
    B. learned to educate himself
    C. only read books over 100 pages
    D. read only one book several times
    3. The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means _____.
    A. firmly
    B. clearly
    C. proudly
    D. pleasantly
    4. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _____.
    A. explain why it was included in the list
    B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list
    C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand
    D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word
    5. The writer provides two book lists to ______.
    A. show how he developed his point of view
    B. tell his reading experience at high school
    C. introduce the two persons' reading methods
    D. explain that he read many books at high school

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    科目： 来源：天津高考真题 题型：完形填空

    完形填空。
         Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to  1   . Now she was Portia,
    a strong-willed   2   in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people.
    She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing   3    form her
             4  , Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She   5    being in
    front of other people. She was very   6   at school. She had never thought she was good enough at
    anything to   7   much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making   8    friends. She had
    excellent grades,   9    she always thought that something was missing.
         Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa's mother had heard about it and  10   her to join in. 
         "I can't think of anyone else better suited to  11   the part. Remember all the plays you used to act
    our for us?”
         Her mother wouldn't let the   12   drop. “You're just a little scared (害怕). Everyone gets scared.
    You know you  13    do it. The trick is to look past the  14    to find the love of what you're doing.”
          So Roberta had made an appointment (预约) with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play
    and found herself excited by the  15    of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia's
    part,  16   the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn't hard; she  17   every minute of it.
    Every time she spoke the words, she had a new 18  of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia
    on many levels.
         On the day of the audition, she   19    two of Portia's famous speeches for the auditors. When she
    had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the  20   was hers.
    (     )1. A. sing         
    (     )2. A. member       
    (     )3. A. weakly       
    (     )4. A. At first     
    (     )5. A. hated        
    (     )6. A. honest       
    (     )7. A. avoid        
    (     )8. A. few          
    (     )9. A. or           
    (     )10. A. forced      
    (     )11. A. accept      
    (     )12. A. role        
    (     )13. A. can         
    (     )14. A. anger       
    (     )15. A. purpose     
    (     )16. A. memorizing  
    (     )17. A. disliked    
    (     )18. A. consideration
    (     )19. A. practiced   
    (     )20. A. part             		B. dance            
    B. actress          
    B. rapidly          
    B. In fact        
    B. enjoyed        
    B. shy               
    B. focus            
    B. a few            
    B. so              
    B. requested       
    B. play              
    B. matter         
    B. must            
    B. pain             
    B. way              
    B. organizing     
    B. loved           
    B. description       
    B. planned         
    B. play              		C. speak       
    C. player      
    C. smoothly    
    C. After all   
    C. appreciated  
    C. polite      
    C. pay         
    C. several        
    C. for      
    C. encouraged    
    C. offer        
    C. interest   
    C. may         
    C. sadness     
    C. idea       
    C. checking     
    C. expected 
    C. selection      
    C. performed     
    C. speech      		D. report              
    D. character           
    D. slowly              
    D. In all              
    D. regretted             
    D. patient             
    D. attract            
    D. many                    
    D. but             
    D. reminded              
    D. learn               
    D. grade              
    D. should             
    D. fear                  
    D. importance        
    D. improving           
    D. bore                 
    D. understanding        
    D. delivered             
    D. position        

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    科目： 来源：天津高考真题 题型：阅读理解

    阅读理解。
         I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman.
    Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was
    prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father's age, but now I am stuck with this number
    and everything it means.
         A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, " Fifty is what forty used to be." He had made
    an inspirational point, Am I over the hill? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling
    them that he high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is
    impossible for me now.
         " Your are not getting older, you are getting better." says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind
    of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
         And so. as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net. I am moves to share some
    thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older.
    of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies (悼词). In fact, a poet named
    Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
         Grow old along with me!
         The best is yet to me.
         Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for
    what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious
    blend  (混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher (哲学家) was right when
    he said. " Old is always fifteen years from now."
    1. The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that _____.
    A. time alone will tell
    B. time goes by quickly
    C. time will show what is right
    D. time makes one forget the past
    2. When the author turned fifty, people around him ______.
    A. tried to comfort him
    B. got inspiration with him
    C. were friendlier with him
    D. found him more talkative
    3. The author considers his fifty years of life _____. 
    A. peaceful
    B. ordinary
    C. satisfactory
    D. regretful
    4. We can infer from the passage that _____.

    A. the old should led a simple life
    B. the old should face the fact of aging
    C. the old should take more exercise
    D. the old should fill themselves with curiosity

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    科目： 来源：天津高考真题 题型：完形填空

    完形填空。
         Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new 
      1   in high school. 
           2  , high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders
    (拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be   3   for her to
    be selected. Two hours later, the   4   read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart   5   as the list
    ended without her name. Feeling   6  , she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.
         Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was
      7  . She moved on to English and history, and was   8   to find that she didn't have any trouble with those
    subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to   9  math for the time being.
         The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school  10  . Mrs. Biden wasn't as  11   
    as Jenna. "I'm sorry, but we have enough  12  for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we'll
    talk then." Jenna smiled  13   and left. "Why is high school so  14  ?" she sighed.
         Later in  15  class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much  16  .
    By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she'd
    continue to try to  17   at her new school. She wasn't sure if she'd succeed, but she knew she had to  18  .
    High school was just as her mom had said: "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond  19  a big fish in a
    small pond. The challenge is to become the  20  fish you can be."
    (     )1. A. processes     
    (     )2. A. Therefore     
    (     )3. A. difficult     
    (     )4. A. editor        
    (     )5. A. jumped        
    (     )6. A. strange       
    (     )7. A. struggling    
    (     )8. A. ashamed       
    (     )9. A. put up        
    (     )10. A. committee    
    (     )11. A. enthusiastic 
    (     )12. A. speakers     
    (     )13. A. widely       
    (     )14. A. similar      
    (     )15. A. physics      
    (     )16. A. pleasure     
    (     )17. A. fit in       
    (     )18. A. swim         
    (     )19. A. in return for
    (     )20. A. slimmest          		B. decision      
    B. However        
    B. easy         
    B. boss          
    B. sank           
    B. happy          
    B. improving   
    B. disappointed   
    B. prepare for  
    B. newspaper       
    B. artistic     
    B. readers        
    B. weakly                       
    B. ordinary       
    B. history        
    B. hope           
    B. look out      
    B. try            
    B. in case of  
    B. smallest           		C. challenges         
    C. Otherwise              
    C. boring              
    C. candidate            
    C. stopped               
    C. awful              
    C. working              
    C. shocked               
    C. worry about           
    C. radio                    
    C. sympathetic      
    C. cheerleaders        
    C. excitedly             
    C. different                         
    C. English             
    C. trouble                
    C. stay up            
    C. ask                     
    C. in terms of       
    C. best                  		D. exercises               
    D. Besides                    
    D. interesting              
    D. judge                   
    D. raced                     
    D. lonely                  
    D. complaining               
    D. relieved                      
    D. give up              
    D. team                          
    D. realistic            
    D. writers                 
    D. brightly                  
    D. familiar                
    D. math                     
    D. sorrow                      
    D. get around            
    D. escape                        
    D. instead of          
    D. gentlest               

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    科目： 来源：天津高考真题 题型：阅读理解

    阅读理解。
         As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. "The woods" was our part-time address,
    destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend's house and found him not at home, his mother might
    say, "Oh, he's out in the woods," with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance. It's similar to the tone people
    sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I'm looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even"
    away from his desk." For us ten-year-olds, "being out in the woods" was just an excuse to do whatever we
    feel like for a while.
         We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索). Exploring was
    a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations,
    though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we
    stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly
    persuaded was an Italian burial mound.
         Often we got "lost" and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which
    someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and
    we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we
    visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
         It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has
    reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期). In March, the month when we
    usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and
    all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree.
    Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.
    1. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.
    A. spend their free time
    B. play gold and other sports
    C. avoid doing their schoolwork
    D. keep away from their parents
    2. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?
    A. The activities in the woods were well planned.
    B. Human history is not the result of exploration.
    C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.
    D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.
    3. The underlined word "skeptical" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
    A. calm
    B. doubtful
    C. serious
    D. optimistic
    4. How does the author feel about his childhood?
    A. Happy but short.
    B. Lonely but memorable.
    C. Boring and meaningless.
    D. Long and unforgettable.

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    科目： 来源：重庆市高考真题 题型：完形填空

    完型填空。
         I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn't   1   to start the bus soon because it was not yet   2  .
    A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story   3  , not to anyone in particular. On her way
    to the station, half of her   4   was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she   5   still had
    some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked   6  .
         When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares (车费).
    When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he   7   that he had spent all his money when he had
    accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man
    to   8   the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he   9   her to let him take the bus home. The driver took
    the conductor's side and repeated the conductor's  10 .
         The woman was watching the incident.  11  the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man,
    she interfered (干预).
         "Stop  12  him! Can't you see he's only trying to get home?"
         "He doesn't have any money!" the driver  13 .
         "Well, that's no  14  to throw him off the bus," she insisted.
         Then she reached inside her blouse, look out her  15  money, and handed it to the conductor.
         "Here's his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a  16  time."
         All heads turned to the woman. "It's only money," she shrugged.
         She rode the rest of the way home  17  a happy smile, with the money she'd lost earlier  18 .
         On the road of life, the help of strangers can  19  our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the  20   
    will be when we make it a little smoother for others!
    (     )1. A. try      
    (     )2. A. empty    
    (     )3. A. tearfully  
    (     )4. A. fare      
    (     )5. A. strangely  
    (     )6. A. unsatisfied 
    (     )7. A. explained 
    (     )8. A. get off   
    (     )9. A. begged    
    (     )10. A. request   
    (     )11. A. Unless   
    (     )12. A. attacking  
    (     )13. A. warned   
    (     )14. A. problem   
    (     )15. A. spending  
    (     )16. A. busy    
    (     )17. A. giving   
    (     )18. A. forgotten  
    (     )19. A. move    
    (     )20. A. world         		B. care       
    B. full       
    B. seriously  
    B. possession 
    B. happily   
    B. weak       
    B. declared   
    B. start     
    B. scolded     
    B. action     
    B. Although   
    B. bothering  
    B. whispered  
    B. need       
    B. collected  
    B. cold       
    B. wearing   
    B. used       
    B. increase   
    B. journey              		C. decide     
    C. crowded   
    C. carefully  
    C. money     
    C. secretly   
    C. unhappy   
    C. admitted   
    C. get on     
    C. praised   
    C. suggestion  
    C. Until     
    C. blaming   
    C. shouted    
    C. matter     
    C. remaining    
    C. hard       
    C. taking     
    C. earned     
    C. lighten     
    C. smile          		D. intend         
    D. ready         
    D. calmly         
    D. wealth         
    D. fortunately              
    D. excited       
    D. found         
    D. stop           
    D. thanked       
    D. command       
    D. When           
    D. wronging       
    D. repeated       
    D. reason         
    D. borrowed       
    D. fearful       
    D. forcing       
    D. returned       
    D. carry         
    D. friendship   

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    科目： 来源：重庆市高考真题 题型：阅读理解

    阅读理解。
         I arrived at my mother's home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the
    kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties.
    She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into
    the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out.
         "What is this?" I asked.
         "Oh?" Mom said, "That's Mama's quilt."
         I spread the quilt. It looked at if a group of school children had pieced it together: irregular designs, childish
    pictures, a crooked line on the right.
         "Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly
    didn't look like any of the quilts she had made.
         "Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes," she said.
         "I'm still working on it. See, this is what I've done so far."
         I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched
    (缝) a piece of cloth with these words:"My mother made many quilts. She didn't get all lines straight. But I
    think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt."
         "Ooh, this is so nice, Mom," I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother's quilt, my
    mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with
    the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.
    1. Why did the author go to mother's home?
    A. To see her mother's quilts.
    B. To help prepare for a show.
    C. To get together for the family dinner.
    D. To discuss her grandmother's life.
    2. The author was surprised because _____.
    A. the quilt looked very strange.
    B. her grandmother liked the quilt.
    C. the quilt was the best she had seen.
    D. her mother had made some changes
    3. The underlined wood "crooked" in the passage most probably means _____.
    A. unfinished
    B. broken
    C. bent
    D. unusual
    4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
    A. A Quilt Show
    B. Mother's Home
    C. A Monday Dinner
    D. Grandmother's Quilt

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