Question

For many years, my parents had a fortune from a fortune cookie that     , “You and your wife will be happy in your life together.” They     it in a framed picture of themselves smiling near a beach in Cuba. I always enjoyed seeing the picture and the fortune; it gave me a      of stability(稳定). I would say that they had a wonderful twenty-six-year      . There were, of course, good times and       times, but they were able to work together to make the life they wanted. In my opinion, there is not much more than one can ask     .

When my mother was fifty-one, she got a cancer（癌症）on her tongue. Operating would have bad effects on her voice, and she would have been required to use a feeding tube for the       of her life. She chose radiation treatment（化疗）. More than one year later she was forced to have a tracheotomy(气管切开术), which meant that she     her voice and had to start using a     tube. She decided with my father not to go through any more treatments and to        at home. During this      difficult time, I married my husband. We moved in with my parents to     my father and to be with my mother. Five weeks after my wedding, my mother     at home with the whole family present.

The day after her death, my family went out to      – we really weren’t up to cooking a big family meal. My father chose a Vietnamese(越南)     . We ate our dinner, talking about my mother and      memories. It was a bittersweet     . We had all loved her so much, but at the same me we were      that her suffering was over. After dinner, we     our fortune cookies. My husband’s fortune read, “You and your wife will be happy in your life together.” We     .

1.A. wrote           B. read               C. told             D. talked

2.A. kept            B. left                C. forgot           D. liked

3.A. emotion         B. safety             C. sense         D. happiness

4.A. life             B. family          C. home           D. marriage

5.A. wonderful        B. strange            C. bad           D. poor

6.A. for            B. of            C. with            D. over

7.A. other       B. last                C. rest            D. first

8.A. lost        B. raised              C. lowed     D. started

9.A. flowing       B. feeding      C. medicine       D. water

10.A. work           B. lay                C. stay             D. arrive

11.A. possibly        B. especially           C. probably        D. extremely

12.A. offer           B. help               C. command       D. swap

13.A. recovered       B. suffered            C. died           D. passed

14.A. walk           B. picnic            C. visit            D. eat

15.A. hotel           B. restaurant           C. cinema         D. museum

16.A. sharing         B. remembering    C. collecting   D. packing

17.A. meal            B. place               C. moment         D. dusk

18.A. sad            B. upset            C. determined    D. glad

19.A. made           B. found        C. opened         D. cooked

20.A. laughed         B. smiled               C. cried           D. preferred

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.D

5.C

6.A

7.C

8.A

9.B

10.C

11.D

12.B

13.C

14.D

15.B

16.A

17.C

18.D

19.C

20.B

【解析】

试题解析：此文阐述了作者的家庭并以作者的母亲为重点展开叙述，通过回忆母亲的治病情况及母亲去世后全家的聚餐，得到了一种释然，全家在一起，生活幸福才是最重要的。

1. write的过去式wrote，书写； B. read的过去式依然为read，read在此做“显示”的意思； C. tell的过去式told，讲述，告诉；D. talk的过去式talked，谈论，讨论。文章第一句是讲幸运曲奇上显示的内容，read有“显示”的意思，故选B。

2. keep的过去式kept，保持，保存；B. leave的过去式left，离开，留下，遗忘；C. forget的过去式forgot，忘记，忽略；D. like的过去式liked，喜欢，像。他们将财富保存在了一幅装裱图画里，故选A。

3. sense of…表示一种……的感觉，a sense of stability，一种稳定感。故选C。

4. 作者的父母有一段26年的美满婚姻。故选D。

5.

6. for为固定搭配。意为“请求，要求”。父母已经创造出了他们想要的生活，在“我”看来，生活中再没有什么可求的了。故选A。

7. rest of…意为“剩余的，其余的”，母亲需要胃食管度过她的余生。故选C。

8. lose的过去式lost,丢掉，丢失，错过；B. raise的过去式raised，提高，筹集，养育，上升；C. low的过去式lowed，降低；D. start的过去式started，开始，启动。母亲做了气管切开手术，失去声音，故选A。

9. tube）来度过余生，故选B。

10. at…为固定搭配，母亲决定与父亲一起呆在家里，故选C。

11.

12.

13. recover的过去式recovered，恢复，弥补；B. suffer的过去式suffered，遭受，忍受，经历；C. die的过去式died，死亡；D. pass的过去式passed，经过，通过。Pass away意为“去世”。文章后文有提到“The day after her death”，故选C。

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19. make的过去式made，制造，构成；B. find的过去式found，发现，认为，找到；C. open的过去式opened，公开，打开；D. cook的过去式cooked，烹饪。前文已经提到过幸运曲奇，所以它肯定是存在的，晚餐过后，我们打开了幸运曲奇。故选C。

20. laugh的过去式laugh,大笑；B. smile的过去式smiled，微笑；C. cry的过去式cried，叫喊，哭出；D. prefer的过去式preferred，更喜欢，宁愿。看到了丈夫财产所显示的内容，我们所做出的反应应该是微笑，故选B。

考点：考查记叙文阅读。