Question

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card or note came with it.    1   to the flower shop were always useless---it was a cash   2   . After a while I stopped trying to  3    who the sender was and just delighted in the beautiful and perfume of the white flower. But I never   4   imagining who the sender might be. Some of my   5    moments were spent daydreaming about it.
My mother asked me whether there was someone for whom I had done a(n)    6   kindness who might be showing   7    . Perhaps the neighbor I helped when she was    8   a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man   9   the street whose mail I helped to get during the   10   so he wouldn’t have to venture down his icy step. As a teenager,    11  , I had more fun guessing that it might be a  12   who had noticed me   13   I didn’t know him.
One month before my high school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. He was    14   some of the most important events in my life. I became completely    15   in my upcoming graduation and the dance. When my father died, I   16   the dance and the dress for it. The day before the dance, I found a dress on the sofa. I didn’t  17    if I had a new dress or not, but my mother did.
She wanted her children to feel   18    and lovable, imaginative, believing that there was a   19   in the world and beauty in the face of hard times. Actually mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely,   20   and perfect. The gardenia stopped coming when my mother died.
1. A. Calls            B. Quarrels         C. Messages         D. Letters
2. A. service          B. deal             C. bargain           D. offer
3. A .recognize        B. imagine          C. wonder           D. discover
4. A. failed           B. stopped          C. succeeded         D. enjoyed
5. A. saddest         B. painful          C. happiest           D. loneliest
6. A. special          B. common         C. valuable           D. important
7. A. concern          B. attitude          C. interest            D. appreciation
8. A. repairing         B. washing         C. unloading          D. starting
9. A. across           B. through          C. from              D. onto
10.A. spring            B. summer         C. autumn            D. winter
11. A. though          B. anyway           C. therefore          D. indeed
12. A. friend           B. superman         C. teacher            D. boy
13. A .as if             B. even though       C. in case            D. so that
14. A. considering       B. expecting         C. missing           D. preparing
15. A. disappointed     B. uninterested       C. discouraged        D. concentrated
16.A. forgot           B. lost               C. hated             D. expected
17. A. wonder          B. believe           C. care              D. know
18. A. contented        B. respected         C. thanked           D. loved
19. A. trouble          B. magic            C. tragedy            D. comedy
20. A. strong           B. beautiful          C. smelly            D. lucky

Answer 1

1-20  ADBDD   ADACC   BABDB   DDABA

1. A. “打電話”詢問送花人是誰。
2. B. a cash deal 現金交易，暗示沒有留下姓名、地址。
3. D. try to discover 盡量查明。此空不用imagine, 否則與下句相互矛盾。
4. B. 從未停止過。fail和succeed后接in doing.
5. C. 心情愉快。其它三個選項意義相反。
6. A. special的含義可包括valuable和important。
7. D. 表示感激。
8. C. 由full of groceries 可知幫助“御貨”。
9. A. 橫過馬路。
10. D. 下文中的icy表明“冬天”。
11. A. 表示轉折。
12. D. 從下段的dress可知作者是女性。在此表示也許是一個男孩看上了她。
13. B. 讓步狀語從句。
14. C. miss失去。
15. B. 對……不感興趣。因為下文涉及作者忘記了舞會的事情，對禮服也不關心。
16. A. 忘記。此空應與上空結合起來考慮。
17. C. care =" mind" 關心，在意，計較。
18. D. feel loved感受到被愛。
19. B. 魔力。下文談到生活就象可愛的梔子花，使作者充滿暇想。
20. A. 堅強。perfect(完美) 包含beautiful的意思，故B不可選。