Her father's death impacted greatly _______ her childhood years.
A. in
B. on
C. over
D. during
A. in
B. on
C. over
D. during
第2题
Mystery of the White Gardenia
Marsha Aron
Every year on my birthday , from the time I turned 12 , a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda , Md. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain 一 it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender' s identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that´ one magical , perfect flower nestled in soft pick tissue paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be. Some of the happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.
My mother contributed to these imaginings. She' d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the
neighbor l' d helped when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. As a teen-ager , though , i had more fun speculating that it might be a boy i had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though i didn´t know him.
When 1 was 17 , a boy broke my heart. The night he called for the last time , i cried myself to sleep. When i awoke in the morning , there was a message scribbled on my mirror in red lipstick: Heartily know , when half-gods go , the gods arrive. i thought about that
quotation by Emerson for a long time , and until my heart healed , i left it where my mother had written it. When i finally went to get the glass cleaner , my mother knew everything was all right again.
I don' t remember ever slamming my door in anger at her and shouting , "You just don' t understand!" because she did understand.
One month before my high-school graduation , my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment , fear and overwhelming anger that my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation , the senior class play and the prom. But my mother , in the midst of her own grief , would not hear of my skipping any of those things.
The day before my father died, my mother and i had gone shopping for a prom dress. We found a spectacular one , with yards and yards of doted swiss in red , white and blue , it made me feel like Scarlet 0' Hara ,
but it was the wrong size. When my father died iforgot about the dress.
My mother didn't . The day before the prom , i found that dress 一 in the right size - draped majestically over the living room sofa. It wasn't just delivered , still in the box. It was presented to me - beautifully , artistically , lovingly. i didn' t care if 1 had a new dress or no. But my mother did.
She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable , creative and imaginative , imbued with a sense that there was magic in the world and beauty even in the face of adversity. In truth. my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia 一 lovely ,strong ,
and perfect - with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after i was married. i was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped coming.
26. When did the narrator discover the mystery of the white gardenias? Why was the sender' s identity kept secret?
27. When and how did the father die? How did the narrator feel at her father' s death?
28. What traits of the mother' s characters are highlighted in the story? Cite examples from the story to support your answer.
29. What do you think of the title of the story? What does the gardenia symbolize in the story?
参考答案:
26. The narrator got to know the truth when she was 22. It was her mother who sent her the flowers. She kept it a secret so that the daughter could have the self-knowledge of her own good deeds as she speculated about who the sender might be.
27. The father died of heart attack close to her graduation from high school. She felt sad , disappointed that her father would not experience the important events in her life.
28.a. The mother' s wisdom: She thought of a wise way to encourage kindness in her daughter: to send flowers secretly; or she wisely scribbled a quotation from Emerson on her daughter' s mirror instead of directly talking her teenage daughter into accepting the loss of her boyfriend.
b. Her strength in the face of adversities: she stood strong when her husband died.
29.It is a good / helpful title. The title tickles the reader' s curiosity. OR It' s not a good title. When we are told of the "mystery" in the title , our curiosity is destroyed. The gardenia is the essential symbol in the story , helping to bring about the theme of the story: mother' s love. The gardenia symbolizes the qualities that the mother hoped for her daughter , qualities such as magical (aura of magic , a bit of mystery) , loving , strong , perfect , etc.
第3题
Bessie Coleman
Bessie was born in Atlanta, Texas in 1893. Her father was an Indian and her mother an African American. Her father left the family when she was seven. At such a young age, Bessie picked cotton. She also took on extra washing and ironing to help her mother meet family expenses.
After finishing high school, Bessie went to Chicago to stay with a younger brother. She became interested in aviation (飞行) shortly after World War I. But because of her sex and color she could not enroll (注册入学) in an aviation school in the US. Later, a newspaper editor told her that the only path left open to her would be an viation school in Europe. She then made two trips to Europe. She studied under top German and French pilots, and returned to Chicago with an international pilot's license. Bessie became the only black woman pilot in the world.
Her work as a pilot took her into a field untouched by women in her day. This field was exhibition flying. In 1922, Bessie gave her first exhibition flying show. Several thousand eager fans came to see the unusual show. She went on giving air shows all over the US. She gained national attention and thousands of fans of all races. She was not discouraged by words from her family or seeing the death of a student pilot. Nor did suffering a broken leg and arm in an air crash scare her.
Letters poured in from young black people. Like Bessie, they wanted to go into the field of aviation. Long before her first exhibition, Bessie dreamed of setting up a flying school for blacks. Unfortunately, she died in a flight accident before her dream was realized.
11. When Bessie was seven,()
A. she left her family
B. she helped support the family
C. her father went to Atlanta
D. her family opened a cotton farm
12. Bessie was kept out of the US aviation schools because()
A. World War I had ended
B. she was a black woman
C. her brother didn't want her to go
D. she didn't finish her high school
13. Bessie'sexhibition flying show in 1922()
A. was the first done by women
B. did not attract much attention
C. was helped by European pilots
D. ended in air crash
14. According to Paragraph 3, Bessie()
A. had fans all over the world
B. got support from her family
C. was once injured in an air crash
D. was scared by a pilot's death
15. Bessie's unrealized dream was to()
A. reduce flight accidents
B. set up her own flying team
C. involve more women in aviation
D. found a flying school for blacks
第4题
A.Only statement I is correct
B.Only statement II is correct
C.Both statements are correct
D.Neither statement is correct
第5题
A.from which
B.in which
C.at which
D.on which
第6题
A.Her mother was executed by her father because she could not produce a male heir.
B.She had lived a very miserable childhood at her father’s court.
C.She was imprisoned by her Queen sister in the Tower of London.
D.She is one of the most successful monarchs in British history.
第7题
I.The Assignment of Income Doctrine prohibits the father from recognizing the $2,700.
II.Even if Hilda desired to gift the $2,700 to her father, Hilda must recognize the income she earned.()
A、Only statement I is correct
B、Only statement II is correct
C、Both statements are correct
D、Neither statement is correct.
第8题
A.By calling him "father"
B.By interrupting his sermon
C.By kissing him
D.By announcing that she has seen him with her mother
第9题
Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A、Death would be too kind and brief.
B、I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C、With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet.
D、I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.
第10题
39. Why did the author hate Mrs. Geurin at first?
A. Mrs. Geurin said somethig bad about the author’s father.
B. Mrs. Geurin gave the author a hard topic to write about.
C. Mrs. Geurin didn’t appreciate the author’s writing.
D. Mrs. Geurin didn’t like the author’s lake house.
40. Hearing what Mrs. Geurin said at the funeral, the author _____.
A. was grateful to her
B. still didn’t forgive her
C. felt ashamed of herself
D. found they had a lot in common
41. What changed the relationship between Mrs. Geurin and the author?
A. Her apology to the author.
B. Her visit to the lake house.
C. Both losing a good friend
D. A similar sad experience
42. What’s best title for the text?
A. My first teacher
B. My beloved father
C. Seeking common ground
D. Breaking down the emotional barrier
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