Question

My mother says she probably wouldn’t love butterflies（蝴蝶）today if it weren’t for Mr. Patti.

When my mother Ada was a kid, she loved playing baseball and she wanted to      for the New York Yankees. Then her brother Howie pointed out that there weren’t any women playing major league baseball（棒球联赛）. Ada realized he was right. That made her so angry that she started throwing baseballs into the air and hitting them as       as she could.

One day Ada hit a ball through Mr. Patti’s window. She was about to run away when a bright yellow butterfly flew through the hole in the window. A blue butterfly       . Then a lot of colourful butterflies flew out like a rainbow（彩虹）. Ada      to open her arms and catch the butterflies.

It was too bad she didn’t     she heard Mr. Patti shouting, “Hey! You there!” Ada almost jumped 12 feet. When she landed, Mr. Patti handed her a net and a box. He pointed to the butterflies. “One hundred butterflies. We need to get them all back. Go!”

Running with the net, Ada began to catch some of the butterflies. By the end of the day, her

   was filled with butterflies ― including the bright yellow butterfly. There were still 13 butterflies missing. Mr. Patti showed Ada pictures       had taken of the missing butterflies. The photographs were so beautiful that she could hardly catch her breath.

“      do you get them to stay still（静止的，不动的）?” Ada asked.

“I’ll show you,” Mr. Patti replied.

   And he did. He taught my mother everything he knew about photographing butterflies. That’s her        now. It is good because there still aren’t any women playing in the major leagues.

“I’ll never forget that day,” my mother says. “Breaking that window changed my       .” Then she goes into her workroom, which is filled with swirling butterflies.

1.A. cheer         B. play         C. work        D. act

2.A. carefully      B. high         C. hard        D. proudly

3.A. appeared     B. joined        C. followed     D. reached

4.A. offered          B. wanted      C. agreed        D. refused

5.A. so            B. because      C. after          D. though

6.A. net             B. box          C. room        D. yard

7.A. she             B. they        C. I             D. he

8.A. How           B. When        C. Why         D. Where

9.A. job            B. hobby        C. pleasure       D. way

10.A. project        B. purpose         C. life          D. Plan

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.B

5.B

6.B

7.D

8.A

9.A

10.C

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要讲述了作者的母亲喜欢蝴蝶的原因。文章介绍，作者的母亲小时候因为打棒球而打碎了帕蒂先生的窗户玻璃，致使许多蝴蝶从窗户飞了出来。虽然他们用网捕回了一些，但是还有13只失踪。当看到帕蒂先生出示这些失踪蝴蝶美丽的照片，作者的母亲被震惊了，从此把拍摄蝴蝶当作她的职业。

1.play：打球，work：工作，act：表演。根据语境，这里指的是“她想为纽约杨基队效力（打球）”，故选B。

2.hard：用力地，proudly：自豪地。根据语境可知，由于她非常生气，所以用力地击打棒球。故选C。

3.joined：加入，followed：跟随，reached：到达。根据语境，这里指的是一只黄色的蝴蝶从窗户的破洞飞出来后，一只蓝色的蝴蝶紧随其后飞了出来。故选C。

4.offered：提供，wanted ：想要，agreed：同意，refused：拒绝。根据语境可知，这里指的是她想要张开双臂去捕捉蝴蝶，故选B。

5. because：表示原因， after：表示（时间）之后，though：表示让步。根据语境，这里指的是“因为帕蒂先生的叫喊，所以她没有抓住蝴蝶”，故应选B。

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10.project：课题，purpose：目的，life：生命，plan：计划。根据语境，这里指的是“打碎玻璃改变了她的生命’，故应选C。

考点：人生百味类短文。