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Leo and his father hadn’t talked for ten years. Ten years ago, Leo’s mother died. He thought it was his father who caused his mother’s death. He hated his father.
Now they were sitting in a nice coffee shop. Suddenly his father asked the waiter to put some salt in his coffee. Before you were born, your mother and I often had fun playing in the sea .We could taste the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Every time I have salty coffee, I always think of your mother. I miss her so much.”
Leo was deeply moved. He never knew his father had such deep love for his mother. One month later, he moved in with his father. Every time he made coffee for him , he put some salt in the coffee.
After 10 years, his father died. Leo received a letter that read ,"Dear Leo, please forgive(原谅）my life’s lie --the salty coffee. Actually at that time I wanted some just went ahead, Now let me tell you the truth, I don’t like salty coffee, but I drank salty coffee for 10 years .Having you with me was the biggest happiness of my whole life."
1.Why did Leo hate his father?
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2.Why did Lea move in with his father one month later?
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3.What did his father tell in the letter?
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4.What was the biggest happiness for his father?
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5. What’s the Chinese meaning for the underlined sentence?
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通读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Friends play an important role in our life. Most people hope that their friends will always be there. They _________ friendship to last forever. _________, even the best friendship can end.
As time goes by, many friendships end because of a(n) _________ in personality or way of life. The friendship slowly loses importance and finally_________.
Tommy wrote, “I didn’t even know the friendship was over until I caught myself thinking of Alan as a former friend.”
Peter explained. “We _________ seeing each other less and less. The friendship was just over.”
Sometimes friendships_________ suddenly from a disagreement or move to another place.
Alice said, “The end of our friendship was a gradual thing. I moved from one side of the city to the other. Since then we _________ made a phone call. We met less and less. At last our friendship ended.”
Jack said, “ When I moved to Seattle after college, our friendship died. Both of us were always_________ with new jobs, so we didn’t keep _________ touch with each other. Our friendship was so dead that I didn’t call him __________ I went home.”
Yet the biggest problem to a friendship is change. Lillian Rubin in her book Just Friends say, “Generally it’s _________that friends will accept each other if they both remain what they were when they met, or change in similar directions. If they change or grow in different ways, the friendship most likely _________ lost.”
No matter why, when, or how friendships end, there is always _________ pain of loss. When nothing can be _________to keep the friendship, it is important to forget the pain. Then move on_________ new friendships.
May new friendships bring you pleasure and happiness!
1.A. hope B. expect C. decide D. prefer
2.A. Unfortunately B. Luckily C. Then D. So
3. A. interest B. experience C. change D. Suggestion
4.A. forgets B. disappears C. appears D. improves
5. A. finished B. practiced C. continued D. started
6.A. break down B. break away C. break off D. break in
7. A. often B. seldom C. always D. never
8.A. struggling B. satisfying C. pleased D. fed
9.A. at B. by C. on D. in
10.A. even if B. while C. before D. since
11.A. strange B. true C. false D. impossible
12.A. will be B. is C. will D. to be
13.A. little B. some C. any D. no
14.A. thought B. checked C. carried D. done
15. A. to ask for B. forming C. to build D. beginning
Many houses ______ by the earthquake and thousands of people were left homeless.
A. damaged B. were damaged
C. were damaging D. are damaged
---- Have you heard of the song Little Apple?
---- Yes. It ______ every morning when aged people do square dancing downstairs.
A.is played B.plays
C.was played D.played
— Where is Joan?
— She a novel in her study.
A. has read B. reads
C. will read D. is reading
Here are some . Do you like ?
A. oranges； them B. orange； it
C. oranges； they D. oranges； their
