完形填空（共12分，每小题1分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

When I was in the third grade, I was picked to be the princess in the school play.

For weeks my mother had helped me   1  my lines. But once on stage, every word   2   from my head. Then my teacher told me she had written a narrator's (旁白) part for the play, and asked me to change   3  . Though I didn't tell my mother what had happened that day, she  4 my unhappiness  and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions(蒲公英)popping（炸开）through the grass in bunches, I watched my   5  carelessly bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I am going to dig up all these weeds(杂草),” she said. “From now on, we’ll have   6 roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,”I said.“All flowers are   7  —even dandelions!”

My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?”she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is   8  of people, too,”she added.

When I   9  that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth.

　“  10   you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her.

Over the next few weeks, with her continuous   11  , I learned to take pride in the role. The big day finally came. A few minutes before the play, my teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give  12  to you,” she said, handing me a dandelion. After the play, I took the flower home, laughing that I was perhaps the only person who would keep such a weed.

1.                A．practice        B．write           C．train     D．read

 

2.                A．left            B．developed      C．disappeared   D．failed

 

3.                A．roles           B．lines           C．plays D．teachers

 

4.                A．touched        B．heard          C．reached D．sensed

 

5.                A．teacher        B．friend          C．classmate D．mother

 

6.                A．only           B．hardly          C．still  D．also

 

7.                A．perfect         B．beautiful        C．natural   D．lively

 

8.                A．kind           B．same           C．true D．clever

 

9.                A．remembered    B．realized         C．explained D．promised

 

10.               A．Or            B．So             C．And  D．But

 

11.               A．talking         B．management     C．helping    D．encouragement

 

12.               A．that           B．this            C．it D．them