Ⅰ.完形填空

I feel great sorrow after reading your Parents Love.Instead of being 1 by the heart-warming parental care for kids, I taste the 2 of life and the coldness of those college kids who 3 to be coming from a “middle class” family in order to 4 the acceptance of their peers and avoid the family 5 and responsibilities that are only imposed (强化) upon their parents.

My family is not a 6 one.My father has to wake up at 5 before 7 to work, and my mother, before her retirement, used to be 8 12 hours a day in order to add the family 9 .Before I was sent to college, I had already acquired the most clever 10 of saving ones money for the best use and be thrifty (节约) with 11 I owned.My parents taught me this and I really 12 their successful efforts of bringing me up as a 13 person towards life, a young man who is willing to 14 the family burden or at least not to add any.

I have been staying at a college for 7 years.All these years I have 15 in growing up from a “college kid” to a “college young man”. 16 , there is more shame than honour and more 17 than good manners.Maybe thats how I was growing up and getting 18 to the real understanding of life.I think I am really lucky to have 19 my noble (高贵的) aim of getting educated in a college 20 others or the lately comers are still wondering what, for themselves, counts as a perfect college life.

Give our parents their own life and their own dreams! I pray to God, if there is one.

【语篇解读】父母对子女的爱是无私的、持久的。那么怎样的爱才是有意义的呢?是一味满足子女的需求,还是引导他们积极向上、通过自己的努力实现人生的价值呢?作者给出了他自己的思考答案。

1.A.praised B.moved

C.encouraged D.punished

【答案与解析】B 根据下文的coldness等词可知,“我”并没有被父母的爱所感动(moved)。

2.A.sweetness B.beauty

C.hardship

(hardship)。

3.A.pretend B.tend C.decide D.promise

【答案与解析】A 根据全句可知,这些大学孩子其实并非中产阶级家庭里的孩子,他们只是装扮(pretend)成中产阶级家庭里的孩子。

4.A.follow B.force C.control D.gain

【答案与解析】D 根据空后的“the acceptance”可知,他们这样做只是想获得同龄人的认可。

5.A.life B.friendship

C.burden D.belief

【答案与解析】C 根据第14空后的“the family burden”可知,这些孩子只是在逃避家庭负担(burden)和责任。

6.A.poor B.happy C.dependent

庭不是富裕(rich)家庭。

7.A.dawn B.sunset C.day D.morning

【答案与解析】A 根据空前的“wake up at 5”可知,“我”父亲在黎明(dawn)前5点钟就起床去上班。

D.rich 【答案与解析】D 根据空后“我”父母的情况可知,“我”父母工作很辛劳,赚得也少,因此说“我”的家D.value 【答案与解析】C 根据空后的“and the coldness of those college kids”可知,本空指生活的艰辛