阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中选出最佳选项。
Born in America, I spoke English, not Chinese, the language of my ancestors. When I was three, my parents flashed cards with Chinese 36 at my face, but I pushed them 37 .My mom believed I would learn 38 I was ready .But the 39 never came.
On a Chinese New Year’s Eve, my uncle spoke to me in Chinese, but all I could do was 40 at him, confused, scratching my head. “Still can’t speak Chinese?” He 41 me, “You can’t even buy a fish in Chinatown.”
“Hey, this is America, not China. I’ll get some 42 with or without Chinese.” I replied and turned to my mom for 43.
“Remember to ask for fresh fish, Xin Xian Yu,” she said, handing over a $20 bill .I 44 the words, running downstairs into the streets of Chinatown.
I found the fish 45 surrounded in a sea of customers. “I’d like to buy some fresh fish,” I shouted to the fishman .But he 46 my English words and turned to serve the next customer .The laugh of the people behind increased 47 their impatience. With every 48, the breath of the dragons on my back grew stronger—my blood boiling— 49 me to cry out. “Xian Sheng Yu, please” “Very Xian Sheng,” I repeated .The crowd erupted into laughter. My face turned 50 and I ran back home 51 , except for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket .
Should I laugh or cry? They’re Chinese. I’m Chinese. I should feel right at 52 . Instead , I was the joke , a disgrace (丢脸)to the language.
Sometimes, I laugh at my fish 53 , but , in the end the joke is on 54 . Every laugh is a culture 55 ; every laugh is my heritage (传统)fading away.
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One day, Nancy came home from school crying. Taking her in her arms, Mummy tried to her. After a while, she stopped crying and asked, “Mummy am I ?” “No, you are not,” said Mummy, “but let us discuss this after you ，OK?”
Several minutes later, Nancy began to have supper with Mummy.
“Who that you are bad?” asked Mummy.
“Phillips, my friend. He asked me for help with his maths but I because I wanted to read the new book Daddy gave me. He got and said I was a bad girl,” said Nancy.
“You are ,” said Mummy. “Phillips has often helped you with your English. You should have helped him. Why don’t you phone him and say to him?”
“But he called me bad and with me. I don’t want to go,” Nancy cried.
“Though you have done bad, it does not make you a bad person. You are a good person.”
Nancy showed a look on her face. “How can that be, Mummy?” she asked.
“Our is always good. So never believe that you are bad,” Mummy replied with a smile.
flooded on Nancy’s face. “Am I good, Mummy?” she asked.
“Yes, you are good, and always will be so. But that does not mean that you should not the wrong that you do. You will have to call and to Phillips. Do you understand me?”
“Yes, Mummy,” said Nancy slowly. “Thank you for telling me this. I feel much better now,” said Nancy “I am going to Phillips right away, and I am never going to that I am always good.”
A．calm B．protect C．trick D．praise
A．shy B．foolish C．bad D．strong
A．get up B．grow up C．wash up D．turn up
A．said B．saw C．heard D．doubted
A．cried B．refused C．admitted D．allowed
A．excited B．comfortable C．nervous D．angry
A．wrong B．brave C．wise D．careful
A．goodbye B．sorry C．thank you D．hello
A．competed B．lived C．worked D．argued
A．everything B．anything C．something D．nothing
A．always B．sometimes C．ever D．never
A．worried B．puzzled C．confident D．satisfied
A．chance B．choice C．condition D．nature
A．Fear B．Patience C．Shock D．Joy
A．really B．hardly C．already D．gradually
A．account for B．pay for C．look forward to D．rely on
A．devote B．apologize C．introduce D．turn
A．coldly B．sadly C．gratefully D．pitifully
A．consult B．change C．teach D．call
A．agree B．explain C．forget D．confirm
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a second-hand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him much in repairs that he decided that he had better it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was when they met one evening, and said, “What's , Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no .But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, to wait there for the people who had his advertisement. Even Dave had to that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this to us yet, sir?”
A．directly B．safely C．properly D．easily
A．so B．such C．very D．too
A．keep B．repair C．sell D．throw
A．anxious B．lucky C．ashamed D．generous
A．some B．neither C．none D．most
A．delighted B．upset C．calm D．astonished
A．on B．up C．it D．that
A．learn B．miss C．get D．find
A．message B．advice C．request D．description
A．uses B．loses C．has D．spends
A．doubt B．help C．trouble D．answer
A．tell B．see C．agree D．call
A．exact B．suitable C．early D．late
A．follow B．meet C．bring D．introduce
A．recognize B．gain C．admire D．test
A．happening B．meaning C．turning D．failing
A．read B．inserted C．answered D．placed
A．forget B．show C．disagree D．admit
A．as B．that C．so D．such
A．bargain B．sale C．accident D．Result
Radio, telephone and television are widely used in the world. When you the radio, you can listen. But when you use the telephone, not only you can listen to others you can talk with them; however, you see anything at all. Television is much better than of them. People can watch TV and listen to it. But they can't take part in they see.
Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision phone. it two people who are talking can see each other.
Picture phone can be very when you have something to show the person you are calling. They may have other uses in the future. Some day you may be able to a library and ask to read a book right over your picture phone. You may also be able to go shopping through it, too. When you something in the newspaper that you think you want to buy, you may go to your picture phone and call the shop. The shop assistant will show you the thing that you're in right over the phone. You'll be able to shop all over the town and never leave your home.
A．and B．not C．so D．but also
A．can B．can't C．need D．needn't
A．all B．none C．both D．every
A．what B．how C．why D．where
A．With B．In C．By D．Without
A．use B．uses C．used D．useful
A．go to B．sit in C．ring up D．make phone calls
A．will see B．see C．won't see D．doesn't see
A．interest B．interested C．interesting D．interests
One evening, I was resting in a cafe. I a pair of newly bought white leather（皮革 ）shoes, which were rather expensive. Then a boy came to me.
He was in a(n) shirt, looking pale and about eleven. No sooner had I begun to speak than he opened the in his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He down, took off my leather shoes, and began to shine them. He was busy doing his work heavy rain began to pour down. People rushed to the café for from the rain. More and more people crowded and gradually separated the boy from me.
Hours passed, and it turned . I had no shoes on my feet and where the boy had been. I thought he would not my shoes, and I would have to go home on my bare feet.
When it was near midnight the ended, and there were fewer and fewer people in the café. The café was to be . I had to move to the door, head . just as I went to the gate, I found that a boy of about eleven, looking very familiar, was sleeping at the with his head leaning against a box and his upper body being he held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms. I shook him slightly and woke him up. He 57 up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he recognized me. Then he opened the package , gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly. I him and wrapped him with his unfit shirt, which had wrapped my leather shoes. On my way home, the of the boy stayed in my mind.
A．took B．Mended C．wore D．owned
A．Unfit B．old C．small D．dirty
A．bag B．package C．suitcase D．box
A．seated B．put C．bent D．looked
A．after B．when C．because D．since
A．rest B．protection C．hide D．Preparation
A．out B．away C．off D．in
A．light B．dark C．dim D．bright
A．thought B．guessed C．wondered D．imagined
A．shine B．keep C．carry D．return
A．coffee B．rain C．time D．work
A．opened B．locked C．closed D．stopped
A．dropped B．lowered C．raised D．held
A．shortly B．sadly C．surprisedly D．immediately
A．table B．bed C．door D．cafe
A．bare B．wet C．pale D．cold
A．stayed B．as C．got D．jumped
A．finally B．suddenly C．hurriedly D．Unfriendly
A．recognized B．forgave C．inspired D．paid
A．feature B．image C．shirt D．form
We always celebrated my Dad’s November birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. As years went on, these events took on a(n) meaning – a traditional birthday party for Dad, and a personal for all that he had done for me in my life.
When we knew that it might be Dad’s birthday, the whole family decided to come together for a huge birthday celebration at the nursing home. It was a crowded party ___all of us sitting around him. Dad was a wonderful , and here was a biggest audience he’d ever had.
During a quiet moment, I announced that it was now Dad’s turn to stories from us. I wanted everyone to tell Dad what we loved about him. , we told stories from our hearts, Dad listened with wet, flashing blue eyes. We all kinds of lost memories – stories about when we were little, stories about when Dad was young and stories that are shared as family . Even the littlest grandchildren couldn’t to tell their grandfather why they loved him. For a man who had been kind to so many people in his life, here was our to honor him.
A few months later, at Dad’s memorial service, we fully realized what we had given Dad that night. Those were the stories people normally tell at a . They are told, then, full of tears, with the hope that the departed will somehow hear the outpouring of love.__ we had given those loving to Dad when he was , told through laughter, accompanied by hugs and joy. I’m sure the stories and memories over in his mind during his last months and days.
Words do , and they are enough. We need to say them, to speak them to the ones we love, for everyone else to hear. That’s the way to love, and our chance to honor a person in life.
A．original B．modern C．complex D．double
A．congratulation B．wish C．thanking D．apology
A．late B．lost C．living D．last
A．with B．as C．though D．by
A．writer B．listener C．storyteller D．reader
A．hear of B．listen to C．make up D．talk about
A．Little by little B．Now and then C．All at once D．One after another
A．if B．because C．while D．before
A．recalled B．recorded C．regretted D．remembered
A．thoughts B．treasures C．possessions D．tales
A．afford B．help C．wait D．offer
A．chance B．task C．duty D．decision
A．burial B．party C．meeting D．wedding
A．And B．But C．So D．Or
A．kindness B．memories C．care D．hugs
A．healthy B．old C．young D．alive
A．went B．flew C．rolled D．came
A．benefit B．matter C．work D．mean
A．publicly B．properly C．consciously D．correctly
A．fall in B．search for C．hand over D．give back