Question

Our family moved to America ten years ago. One day I came home after school, __. I asked my mom to no longer put Middle Eastern food in my __. She and my father became quiet. Through questioning, my mother made me tell the __ that the other students had given me a very __    time because my ___was different. So I    __. “From now on, could we do peanut butter on Wonder Bread and an apple?” My brother and sister said they’d like the same because they had also __ it.

There were no African Americans or Asians in our school. I thought there was __ from India or Latin America, either. It was __ a community based on their __ religion and culture. Among them, our family seemed __. My father’s family was from Syria; my mom’s from Palestine. Our food was different; we had holiday customs like nobody else. All these ___us from others.

A week later the teacher announced that we should not bring lunches the following day. To my __, the next day at lunch, in came my mother with boxes of Middle Eastern food. The teacher __ her, “ This is Mrs. Nimen, Tom’s mom.” She took out the food and started __ the kids Kibble—a baked dish. She had __ baked bread for the class to take home. She made the kids very excited, who were __ everything I was eating a week earlier. __ here they were __ my mother’s food!

My mother did the same thing afterwards in my brother’s and sister’s classes. Though this didn’t end the racial problem, it made a (an) __. She was a pioneer of diversity, using Middle Eastern friendliness in an artful way.

1.A. proud    B. upset    C. satisfied    D. hungry

2.A. breakfast    B. lunch    C. supper    D. dessert

3.A. joke    B. tale    C. truth    D. lie

4.A. difficult    B. short    C. pleasant    D. unforgettable

5.A. look    B. family    C. food    D. belief

6.A. decided    B. ordered    C. insisted    D. requested

7.A. experienced    B. remembered    C. refused    D. heard

8.A. somebody    B. nobody    C. everybody    D. anybody

9.A. mainly    B. usually    C. particularly    D. extremely

10.A. favored    B. shared    C. concerned    D. achieved

11.A. strange    B. poor    C. rich    D. happy

12.A. freed    B. removed    C. protected    D. distinguished

13.A. relief    B. delight    C. knowledge    D. amazement

14.A. greeted    B. approached    C. introduced    D. congratulated

15.A. cooking    B. serving    C. selling    D. lending

16.A. even    B. still    C. often    D. ever

17.A. taking charge of    B. getting rid of    C. making fun of    D. catching hold of

18.A. And    B. But    C. Or    D. So

19.A. expecting    B. enjoying    C. wasting    D. distributing

20.A. effort    B. attempt    C. discovery    D. difference

Answer

1.B

2.B

3.C

4.A

5.C

6.D

7.A

8.B

9.A

10.B

11.A

12.D

13.D

14.C

15.B

16.A

17.C

18.B

19.B

20.D

【解析】记叙文。讲述作者随家人从中东移民美国后，因为带到学校作为午餐的中东食物与其他同学的不同而遭受歧视，但是作者的母亲以友好而智慧的方式改变了这一局面。

1.考查形容词。根据该空后一句 “I asked my mom to no longer put Middle Eastern food” 以及 “She and my father became quiet”，我对食物不满意，而父母听后沉默，可推知我回家时应该是很“沮丧”。故选B。

2.考察名词。根据前句可知作者对父母给自己带到学校的饭不满意，所以带到学校吃的饭为午餐。A. breakfast 早餐 B. lunch 午餐 C. supper晚餐 D. dessert甜点

3.考查名词。根据该空前面的 “Through questioning”，且空后的内容是我做出的解释，因此母亲让我说的是“真相”。故选C。

4.考查形容词。根据空前作者要求换食物的内容，可推知是因为同学使我在学校经历了一段艰难的时期。故选A。

5.考查名词。根据前面的 “I asked my mom to no longer put Middle Eastern food”可知，起因是我的“食物”不同。故选C。

6.考查动词。联系前面的内容，再根据空后 “From now on, could we do peanut butter on Wonder Bread and an apple?”可知，我是在“请求”。故选D。

7.考查动词。根据最后一段第一句 “My mother did the same thing afterwards in my brother’s and sister’s classes.”反推可知，此句我的哥哥姐姐做出同样的要求，是因为在学校也经历了同样的事情。故选A。

8.考查代词。根据该空前一句 “There were no African Americans or Asians in our school.”以及该空句末的 “either”可知，本句应为“我认为也没有人来自印度或拉丁美洲”。故选B。

9.考查副词。根据前两个否定句的内容可以判断，“这主要是一个基于他们（当地人）共享的宗教和文化的社区。”故选A。

10.考察非谓语动词。根据该句前两句内容，可知该社区几乎没有少数族裔，因这 “主要是”一个基于他们（当地人）“共享的”宗教和文化的社区。故选B。

11.考查形容词。联系该空前内容，根据后文 “My father’s family was from Syria; my mom’s from Palestine.”可知，在这样一个社区里，我们家显得很“奇怪”。故选A。

12.考查动词。根据该空前“Our food was different; we had holiday customs like nobody else.”可知，这一切让我们家“与众不同”。distinguish sb. from 意为“使……与……不同”。故选D。

13.考查名词。根据该空前一句和空后内容可知，我没料到母亲会带着食物在午餐时间来学校。故选D。

14.考查动词。根据空后内容 “This is Mrs. Nimen, Tom’s mom.”可知，老师是在“介绍”我的妈妈。故选C。

15.考查非谓语动词。根据该空前的内容可知，老师让同学不带午餐来学校，是因为我妈妈会带食物来给同学们吃。可知此处应为，我的妈妈“开始招呼孩子们吃”东西。故选B。

16.考查副词。联系该空前一句内容可知，妈妈不仅招呼孩子们吃，“甚至”还烤了让他们带回家的面包。故选A。

17.考查动词词组。根据第一段的内容可知，我的同学们在一周前还在“取笑”我吃的任何东西。故选C。

18.考查连词。与上一空形成转折关系。故选B。

19.考查动词。根据该空前一句可知，我的同学们在一周前还在“取笑”我吃的任何东西，“但是”现在却在“享用”我妈妈的食物。故选B。

20.考查名词。根据该空前“Though this didn’t end the racial problem”，再根据第三段的内容可知，虽然我妈妈的举措没有终结种族歧视问题，但确实起到重要作用。故选D。