It’s not the goodbye that hurts．but the flashbacks that follow．My mother suffered with Alzheimer’s disease(老年痴呆症)during her last fifteen years．Until then she had been a bright， woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her．I would go home to visit her in Virginia and she would look at me in a(an) way and ask，”Who are you?”I would answer,”I'm your son．“Where do you live?”She would ask．”In California,”I would tell her．”Isn’t that interesting，”she would say,”I have a son in California．”My name had my mother completely．
She seemed forgetful and confused at the beginning of the disease，but later on she would periods of sharp anxiety．She would through the house she had lived in most of her life，crying uneasily that she wanted to go home，or she would leave home and wander away if she was not for a short time．
Hoping to please her and put her mind ，I would take her for a drive，Visiting sites where she had lived as a ．In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and ，the view of the old oaks and long green lawn．I could my mother there as a little girl Playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of．I looked to her for some ，but She just shook her head and said，“I want to go home．”
Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a ，but a time．I suspect it was a time when she was much ，when her children were still underfoot， when her husband was still energetic and considerate．
Watching my mother’s suffering set me to 55 what I would have in mindif someday I could n’t find and wanted to go there．In this family we tend to be long lived and we grow fuzzy(模糊的)minded as the years go by．At eighty I have already noticed some symptoms．My doctor says the forgetfulness is only and that it comes with age．Still the of Alzheimer is haunting(萦绕)in my mind．Someday if and when I become even cloudier minded than I am now, unable to drive and tell you where“home”is，my dear son，I expect I will a ask you to take me home．I know you Will do your best to find the place I need to be．I leave these notes for your ．
A．caring B．cheerful C．hopeful D．considerate
A．excited B．frightened C．puzzled D．amazed
A．forgotten B．reminded C．escaped D．slid
A．greatly B．hardly C．totally D．simply
A．go through B．break trough C．1ook through D．put through
A．hunt B．pace C．search D．1ook
A．settled B．attended C．concerned D．inspired
A．in place B．under control C．in order D．at ease
A．1ady B．student C．child D．mother
A．inspected B．admired C．appreciated D．respected
A．tell B．picture C．suspect D．doubt
A．response B．smile C．reasons D．answers
A．name B．dream C．symbol D．place
A．prettier B．younger C．happier D．healthier
A．feeling B．wondering C．doubting D．believing
A．memory B．passion C．home D．way
A．deadly B．alarming C．poisonous D．allergic
A．natural B．special C．rare D．unique
A．intention B．fear C．expectation D．hate
A．appreciation B．admiration C．guidance D．assistance
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浏览全文，掌握其大意；然后从各题所给的A, B, C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卷上将相应选项涂黑。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to ________ in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the ________ ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too ________ for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of ________.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there ________ between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She ________ her head and continued to sew the quilt.
I was very worried because I thought I had ________ her. I was ________ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words: “Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread．Sometimes it ________, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt ________ . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen ________, but it’s really there. Love is ________ .”
I listened carefully but I ________ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly ________ seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked ________ . It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father ________ on the country road．
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t ________ me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.” ________ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and ________ . But from this experience, I understand that love is just ________ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
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A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day ________ I drove to go for a look in the country.
On the way back home, my ________ stopped. It was out of gas on a ________ road far from a town! I decided to walk until I found someone ________ could sell some gas. I had walked almost a mile ________ I finally found a house near the ________ . I was glad to see it because it was getting dark.
I knocked at the door and a little old lady with long white hair ________ . She said, “I’ve been ________ for you here for a long time. Come in. ________is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some gas,” I answered. I couldn’t ________ what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Gas? You ________tea,” said she.
I quickly ________ that my car was out of________, but she didn’t seem to listen to me. She just kept ________ me Alfred and talking about how long it had been ________ she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was anxious to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I ________ .
________, there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my ________, he said, “Oh, that’s Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s strange, but she wouldn’t ________ anybody. She is still waiting for the man she was going to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and ________ came back because of the war.”
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’m Glad I got Sick
Twenty-seven years ago I got sick. The reason I can remember the date so well is that being sick is what ________ me to choose my future wife. She was just a good friend, but because she ________ to my apartment, brought me medicine, and made me breakfast, I thought for the first time “what a super wife she will ________ for someone.”
I took her out to eat for helping me ________ the flu. After that we became even better friends, but still ________ thought of marriage. A few months later I was going to ________ a new job in the Atlanta area, so Cathy helped me ________ boxes to get ready to leave. We ________ a great time that day and had lunch together. Near the end of that day I ________ a few tears in Cathy’s eyes, so I asked what was ________ .
She said, “I don’t know if I can live ________ you, you are my best friend.” I said, “I know, I’ve been thinking the ________ thing.” That day we decided to get married and we have been married ever since. We have had our ________ times, as many others have had, but we are still best friends!
________I get to the family unit in my Health class and we talk about________ …I always tell this story. My students seem to love it because they learn that ________ , sharing and caring about others is all that really ________ in life, and that looks, money and other things are not important.
38 the way, my wife is 12 years younger than me, and she is beautiful. We have 2 beautiful children, but we still have dates on ________ weekend.
Cathy is the greatest thing that has ever ________ me! She is a fantastic mother, and the best wife a coach could ever have. Thank God I got sick 27 years ago!
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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843,and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of five with her family. While ________ her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(n) ________ in medicine. At 18 she married and ________ a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a ________.Her husband supported her decision.
________ ,Canadian medical schools did not ________ women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study ________ at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia. It took her five years to ________ her medical degree.
Upon graduation, Charlotte ________to Montreal and set up a private ________ .Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a ________ doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte ________ herself operating on damaged limbs and setting ________ bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area.
But Charlotte had been practising without a licence. She had ________ a doctor’s licence in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was ________.The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to ________ her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to ________ her patients to spend time studying what she already knew. So in 1887,she applied to the Manitoba Legislature to ________ a licence to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte ________ to practise without a licence until 1912.She died four years later at the age of 73.
In 1993,77 years after her ________a medical licence was issued to Charlotte. This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman.”
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When we are unfamiliar with something, we may feel nervous and fearful． The help of others is a good to help us pull through write for a big newspaper, and I wanted to a story about parachute jumping（跳伞）． To make it a realistic as well as exciting , I decided that I had to make a jump myself ．Unluckily, I’m not good at any , let alone（更不用说）parachute jumping．
My friend Mr． Smith was willing to give me a ． He took me to a ground school． The first day’s included several hours of instruction but not my first drop from a(n) For this, I had to wait until the following ．
The next morning, I was taken to the airfield． , a heavy parachute was put on my back． Then I was to make my way to a small plane which had just stopped slowly on the runway． Once on board, the plane was soon ． I began to feel nervous． As we reached one thousand meters, Harry, my teacher, hooked（钩）a 13 from my parachute to a steel ring inside the plane． The line was to pull my parachute after I jumped．
“Get , Henry,” Harry said． I moved carefully to the door．I wanted to , “NO, no, no!” But no word came．
“Jump!” Harry called ． “Jump!”
Away from the plane, and down, down I fell, arms stretched． It worked All at once I was very happy． Then I felt a quick ． My big parachute had opened! It was the best I ever had． I looked down． There were rivers, trees, fields and houses． I heard the soft sound of the air． This was ．
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