exercise 1

完形填空强化训练(9)

An old man lived alone in a town. He wanted to dig up his potato garden, but it was very 1 work.. His only son, who always 2 him in the past, was then in prison（监狱）. So the old man wrote a letter to his son and said:

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t be able to 3 potatoes in my garden this year. I 4 to miss doing it, because your mother always loved planting time. I’ m just getting too old to dig up a garden. If you were here, all my 5 would be over. I know you would dig up the garden for me 6 you weren’t in prison.

Love,

Dad

Soon the old man 7 a letter: “Dad, don’t dig up the garden! That’s where I buried（埋藏）the guns（枪）!”

At 4 a.m. the next morning, some 8 came and dug up the whole garden without finding any guns. The old man was 9 and wrote another note to his son. He told him what had happened, and 10 him what to do next.

His son’s reply was: “Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad. It’s the best I could do for you from here.”

( )1. A. hard B. interesting C. simple D. boring ( )2. A. taught B. helped C. changed D. stopped ( )3. A. cook B. dig C. plant D. put

( )4. A. hope B. forget C. hate D. decide ( )5. A. trouble B. illness C. danger D. fear ( )6. A. if B. unless C. because D. when ( )7. A. wrote B. received C. sent D. read

( )8. A. friends B. neighbours C. policemen D. prisoners ( )9. A. ill B. lucky C. surprised D. sorry ( )10. A. told B. called C. invited D. asked 38

看图完成短文：(共10分)，每小题1分，一空一词)

It is a Tree-Planting Day. The 1 is shining. Zhao Wen 2 Cao Lanfang are planting trees 3 the river. Zhao Wen has 4 a hole large enough for the 5 . But the hole is not too deep. Cao Lanfang is now ready to 6 the tree into the 7 . Then they will put the earth 8 in it again and get water 9 the river to 10 the tree. They had a hard but nice day.

（一）

I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above th e top of it as mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the i nk bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the more wonderful thing in the world.

Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my si ster and brother. “But the desk,” she’d said again, “it’s for Elizabeth. ”

I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she sho wed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between m other and daughter.

They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotion al(易动感情的)”. But she lived “on the surface(表面)”.

As years passed I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked h er for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive(原谅) me.

I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

My hope turned to disappointment(失望), then little interest and, finally, p eace—it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

Now the present of her desk told, as sh e’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully an d found some papers inside —a photo of my father and a one-page letter, fold ed(折叠) and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

1.The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.

A. after Mother died

B. before she became a writer

C. when she was a child

D. when Mother gave it to her

2.The passage shows that ______.

A. mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter

B. mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done