What am I doing with my daughter at home? Rather than read aloud from books, we

go to dinner and have a very good time. This is usually when her Mom isn't around, and this is when my little girl and I relate better. They're alone together so much. We're seldom alone. When we're alone together, she and I somehow behave differently. We learn about each other. She learns that I'm her father. I learn that she's my daughter. It's a strange feeling, but any parent knows what I'm talking about when I say that I often look at my daughter and wonder just whose kid she is. Where'd she suddenly come from? And why on earth did she pick Laura and me for parents?

When my daughter and I are alone she'll hold my hand and say, “I just love you so much, Daddy!” She's so used to my leaving that when I tell her she and I are going to hang out all night, she gets this great look on her face and says, “We've got so much to do, Dad!” There's nothing like it in the world.

I want my relationship with my daughter to keep growing, so I've been giving my wife a couple of hundred dollars each week and making her go to the shopping center with her girlfriends, or something—anything!

But this closeness is not without its problems. When I'm sitting there playing with her Barbie doll(巴比娃娃)， washing her hair, a voice in me suddenly says, “I've got to get a drink and get out of here.” Right in the middle of all this pleasantness, the voice goes, “Look at yourself! You're washing dolls!”

1.Why does the husband give his wife so much money each week?

A. He wants her to buy more things for the family. 

B. She can do whatever she likes with the money. 

C. He can spend more time with his daughter. 

D. She can spend more time with her friends.   

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The father spends more time with the daughter than the mother does. 

B.The daughter is happy when the father tells her he will be away.

C.The father is happy, hearing “We've got so much to do, Dad!” 

D.The father is sure that the daughter is not his own.   

3.What does the last paragraph tell us about the father?

A.He doesn't enjoy being with his daughter. 

B.He doesn't like washing his daughter's hair. 

C.He likes to enjoy himself by going out for a drink. 

D.He has mixed feelings when he is with his daughter.   

My 10-year-old Donna said, “Mom, I made a new friend at school today. Can she come over tomorrow?” Donna was a shy girl and I wanted her to make some friends to bring her out of her shell.
“Sure, honey, that sounds great.” I said, thinking back to my own best friend, Lillian. We lived across the street from each other in Washington Heights, New York. We met at the age of 10, too. Like my daughter, I was shy, but Lillian drew me out. She was one of the friendliest people in school, with shiny black hair and a mile-wide smile.
In senior high school, Lillian went on a trip to Florida. This was the first time we had to be away from each other for a few days. “I’ll be back soon.” she told me. But three days later, Lillian’s sister told me that she had fallen into a river and hadn’t come out any more. Soon, my family moved to New Jersey. Whenever I thought of her, tears came into my eyes.
The next day Donna brought her new friend home. “Hi, Mrs. Loggia.” the little girl said. Her hair was so shiny and black and she shot me a big smile. “My name is Laura.”
My daughter’s new friend was so much like Lillian. I was still puzzled (迷惑) when Laura’s mom came to pick her up later that afternoon. I opened the door to let her in. “Judy!” she cried. “It’s me, Lillian’s sister, from Washington Heights.” Yes, my daughter’s friend looked familiar. She was Lillian’s niece.
【小题1】The underlined words in the first paragraph “to bring her out of her shell” mean ___________.

A．to help her become less shy	B．to help her become smart
C．to help her live happily	D．to help her walk out of her house

【小题2】Laura looked familiar to the writer because she ____________.

A．was Lillian’s niece

B．was as old as her daughter

C．was from Washington Heights

D．had shiny black hair and a big smile, too

【小题3】Why did the writer lose her best friend?   Because ____________________.

A．she moved to New Jersey

B．they were different from each other

C．her best friend travelled to Florida

D．her best friend lost her life on a trip

【小题4】“I knew we would be best friends forever.” is a sentence from the passage and should be put at the end of _______．

A．Paragraph 2

B．Paragraph 3

C．Paragraph 4

D．Paragraph 5

【小题5】We can infer (推断) from the passage that______.

A．Laura is outgoing

B．Laura helps Donna a lot

C．Laura and Donna are of the same age

D．Judy moved to New Jersey because of Lillian’s death

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确

       Helen returned home from Paris after a short visit to her friends,

Laura and Ted．They went to see her ____ at the airport．It was not        1．       

easy for them to get to the airport at such an early hour, ____ Helen         2．       

felt sorry for the trouble she'd brought them．As it was q_____ dull         3．       

to fly over the sea for long, Helen k____ time on the plane by reading      4．       

a _____（卡通） book given to her by Laura and Ted．She had a very       5．       

smooth f______ and the plane arrived in London on schedule．Her           6．       

sister came to meet her at the airport．She p____ to stay with Helen         7．       

for about a week．They enjoyed the _______ （照片） Laura and Ted     8．       

had t____ for Helen on their beautiful farm．Now Helen is looking           9．       

forward ____ the day when Laura and Ted will pay her a visit in the         10．       

near future.

第二卷（非选择题共35分）

第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

       阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确

       Helen returned home from Paris after a short visit to her friends,

Laura and Ted．They went to see her ____ at the airport．It was not     76．       

easy for them to get to the airport at such an early hour, ____ Helen            77．       

felt sorry for the trouble she'd brought them．As it was q_____ dull    78．       

to fly over the sea for long, Helen k____ time on the plane by reading          79．       

a _____（卡通） book given to her by Laura and Ted．She had a very   80．       

smooth f______ and the plane arrived in London on schedule．Her       81．       

sister came to meet her at the airport．She p____ to stay with Helen    82．       

for about a week．They enjoyed the _______ （照片） Laura and Ted 83．       

had t____ for Helen on their beautiful farm．Now Helen is looking      84．       

forward ____ the day when Laura and Ted will pay her a visit in the      85．       

near future.