Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1  of his life. Church towers，seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains，anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”

So the news of his marriage gave me a   2  . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3  . Well，Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4  it. I  5  whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6  .

She was French perhaps--from that place   7  he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix，wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French，from a mountaineering family. No  8  . No other explanation.

A month later I met them  9  in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10．

“I have   11  climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12  , and I’ve got mine. No   13  ”. “None at all，”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14  ?” I asked．Somewhere far  15  theatres and mountains，was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16  !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17  the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18  of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19  , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20  we took one day.”

1． A．purpose                B．love                  C．answer                 D．even

2． A．joy                       B．thought              C．lesson                   D．shock

3． A．mountains             B．churches            C．faces                    D．girls

4． A．accept                  B．understand         C．bear                     D．tell

5． A．believed               B．knew                 C．wondered             D．realized

6． A．jobs                      B．words                C．adventures            D．deeds

7． A．where                   B．when                 C．which                   D．how

8． A．one                      B．reason               C．sign                      D．doubt

9． A．all                     B．two                   C．both                     D．double

10．A．family　              B．mountain            C．theatre                  D．holiday

11．A．ever                    B．even                  C．never                    D．almost

12．A．interests               B．life                    C．room                    D．car

13．A．wonder             B．way                   C．time                     D．problems

14．A．days                    B．honeymoon        C．childhood              D．rest of life

15．A．away                   B．as                      C．by                        D．from

16．A．show                   B．sight                  C．scene                   D．game

17．A．miss                    B．escape               C．break                    D．forget

18．A．position               B．face                   C．point                    D．line

19．A．programme          B．progress            C．fun                       D．invention

20．A．photographs         B．roles                  C．sports                   D．pains

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 (E="AB " F=" AC  " G=AD)

M: Welcome back! I didn’t see you in the history class on Friday.

W: 61  . My geography class went on a field trip to look at some of the different rocks.

M: Really?  62  ! Where did you go?

W: A desert. It gets hot during the day, but it cools off very quickly at night.   63  .

M: Well, did you enjoy the trip?

W: Of course I did. Since there are so few plants growing there, it’s very easy to see different

rocks.

M:   64  . You must call me if you have the chance to go there again.

W: No problem.   65  .

A. I really want to go there

B. That sounds excellent

C. I will be your guide next time

D. It is very dry there after the sun goes down

E. I’m tired of this trip

F. I wasn’t here on Friday

 

 — Where did you get to know her?

— It was on the farm _______ we worked.

A. that                                   B. there                                C. where                               D. which

 

Each spring brings a new wildflower blooming in the fields along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours. The afternoon sun is too warm for it. Every day each year for about two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers.
This spring, I started a wildflower garden in my yard. I can look out of the kitchen window while doing the dishes and see the flowers. I've often thought that those lovely blue flowers from the fields would look great in that bed alongside other wildflowers.
Every day I drove past the flowers, thinking, "I'll stop on my way home and dig them." "Gee, I don't want to get my good clothes dirty…" Whatever the reason, I never stopped to dig them. My husband even gave me a tool one year for that expressed purpose.
One day on my way home from work, I was saddened to see that the highway department had cleared up the fields and the pretty blue flowers were gone. I thought to myself, "Way to go, you waited too long. You should have done it when you first saw them blooming this spring. "
A week ago we were shocked and saddened to learn that my oldest sister-in-law has a cancer. She is 20 years older than my husband and unfortunately, because of age and distance, we haven't been as close as we all would have liked.
I couldn't help but see the connection between the pretty blue flowers and the relationship between my husband's sister and us. I do believe that God has given us some time left to plant some wonderful memories that will bloom every year for us.
And yes, if I see the blue flowers again, I'm sure I'll stop and transplant them to my wildflower garden.
【小题1】 How long might the blue flower bloom in spring?

A．The whole day.	B．The whole season.
C．About one week.	D．About two weeks

【小题2】 Where did the writer want to transplant the flowers?

A．In the garden	B．Along the highway.
C．Across the fields.	D．Outside the yard.

【小题3】 Which of the following is NOT true about the writer's sister-in-law?

A．She is seriously ill.

B．She is twenty years old.

C．She lives far away from the writer.

D．She is not in close touch with the writer.

【小题4】 What does the writer want to tell us?

A．Refresh our wonderful moments every year.

B．Visit our relatives only after they get ill.

C．Value now and don't lose chances.

D．Plant flowers and don't enjoy them in the field.