Chi Li is one of the best known Chinese writers in the West. She was born in the west. She was born in the 1950s'.     46    19, Chi entered a medical college in 1976. After she graduated, she     47     as a doctor at a hospital in Wuhan. As she loved  _ 48   much more, she went to Wuhan University to study Chinese language and literature in 1983. She chose   49   as her profession(专业)。
During the 1980s, Chi wrote many works full of love. In the 1990s, her works, such as Apart From Love and The Sun Was Born, were 50  lives of young people and everyday problems. Since 2003, Chi has 51  a higher level in her works. And many of her novels have received a  52  honor. Life Show is one of her representative (代表) works and  53   has been translated into many languages. The   54   shows the real life of a common woman in Wuhan.
Chi says, "Writers don't need to be anyone,   55   they should be able to understand everyone." So she often travels alone to get a feel of how the world is and tries to understand people from all social strata (阶层).
【小题1】 A. At the age of      B. At the moment        C. In the beginning
【小题2】A. became          B. worked           C. enjoyed
【小题3】 A. medicine           B. travelling           C. literature
【小题4】 A. teaching           B. writing          C. nursing
【小题5】 A. over               B. under                C. about
【小题6】 A. reached            B. arrived          C. went
【小题7】A. great               B. nice                 C. bad
【小题8】A. she                 B. they                 C. it
【小题9】 A. picture                B. story                C. newspaper
【小题10】A. or              B. till                 C. but

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Mrs. Smith was looking at the show window of a shop selling shirts. She wanted to buy a

  1  for Mr. Smith, her husband. There were so many beautiful shirts that she couldn’t decide

 2. At last, she chose one and bought it home.

While Mr. Smith was reading a newspaper, she showed him the shirt. She wanted to know whether it would fit her husband or not. Her husband   3  the shirt. But it didn’t fit him   4 . It was both too long and too big. Then Mrs. Smith washed it in order to make it become smaller. But the shirt   5  didn’t fit him. Now it was too small for him. She asked Tom, his son, to   6 , and he did so. The shirt didn’t fit him,   7 . Then the woman began to wash the shirt once more to make it   8 . But this time the shirt became too short after she washed it again.

Now the little girl, her daughter was   9  when her mother dressed her in the shirt. Why? Because it was too large, she didn’t like it at all. None of them knew   10 . Mrs. Smith felt so upset.

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to sit above the top of it. Mother sat writing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be a most wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, Mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk,” she said again, “ is for Elizabeth.”
I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she showed in action. But as a young girl, I wanted to have heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter. They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface(表面)”.
As years passed and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.
My hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace — it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
But the present of her desk told me, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside — a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(折叠) and refolded many times. It was my letter.
“In any way you choose, Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.”
【小题1】 The passage shows that __________.

Mrs. Smith was looking at the show window of a shop selling shirts. She wanted to buy a
  1 for Mr. Smith, her husband. There were so many beautiful shirts that she couldn’t decide
  2 At last, she chose one and bought it home.
While Mr. Smith was reading a newspaper, she showed him the shirt. She wanted to know whether it would fit her husband or not. Her husband   3  the shirt. But it didn’t fit him     4   It was both too long and too big. Then Mrs. Smith washed it in order to make it become smaller. But the shir  5    didn’t fit him. Now it was too small for him. She asked Tom, his son, to    6 and he did so. The shirt didn’t fit him,      Then the woman began to wash the shirt once more to make it   7  . But this time the shirt became too short after she washed it again.
Now the little girl, her daughter was    8  when her mother dressed her in the shirt. Why? Because it was too large, she didn’t like it at all. None of them knew   9   Mrs. Smith felt so upset.