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Grandma had the coin for as long as.l can remember. Every time 1 went over to her house, she told me the story of the coin.

It was the day after the ship had 1 in New York City. My grandmother and grandfather had come from Roland^ on that ship. they came to 2  for a new life in the United States, 3 from the poverty and war in their native land. 

  They were walking to their new  4  from their factory jobs when they saw a small glint(閃光)on the sidewalk. My grandmother bent over to it  5  more closely. It turned out to be a dark and dirty quarter. My grandmother  6  it up and said, "This coin is a good omen, a  7  of good  fortune to come. " They took the coin to their little apartment and_  8_ it to make it shine. The next day my grandmother got a (n) 9   job at a jewelry store.

 As the years passed, my grandparents _10 good times and bad. My father and uncles were born, and grandfather was  11     from the factory, but got a job at a big machinery company. There? my grandparents finally found the good   12   my grandmother had 13 .

  When my grandfather died three years ago, my grandmother 14  in to live with my family. This is when she 15  the coin to me. Every day she told me this story. After a few months I could 16 tell the story in my sleep, 17 still she told me the story every day, stressing the importance of 18 on the coin. Last week she died. According to her 19  ,1 got the coin. I think I was fortunate enough because I got the thing that 20 the most to my grandmother, and I will cherish it forever.

1.A. sailed               B. joined        C.  landed       D. pulled

2.A. prepare             B.  ask              C. apply         D. search

3.A. absent               B.  free         C. tired          D. independent

4.A. restaurant           B.  store           C. apartment         D. cottage

5.A. examine              B. observe            C.  test        D. touch

6.A. picked             B.  dug               C. lifted         D. fixed

7.A. moment             B. message              C. gift          D. sign

8.A. packed              B. cleaned           C.  repaired        D. rebuilt

9.A. worse              B. greater            C.  better        D. easier

10.A. got over           B. took up            .C.  passed by      D. went through

11.A. laid off           B.  laid down        C.  shut off        D. broken down

12.A. wealth            B. chance            C.  fortune         D. situation

13.A, described           B. planned          C. experienced        D. predicted

14.A. settled              B. moved         C. entered           D. dropped

15.A. promised              B. presented         C, sent          D. gave

16.A. hardly             B. practically         C.  particularly    D. usually

17.A. and                 B.  so             C.  but           D. however

18.A. keeping             B.  passing          C.  carrying        D. holding

19.A. order              B. dream             C.  explanation      D. will

20.A. proved              B. offered          C. meant           D. contributed

Answer 1

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1. C  land登陸，抵港；sail"航行"，雖然和ship是常見搭配， 但指在水中。從上下文得知船在紐約"抵港"，所以選C。

2. D 從上下文可知，祖父母從波蘭到美國(guó)的目的是尋求一種新的生活，故選D項(xiàng)。

3. B 從上下文可知，祖父母從波蘭到美國(guó)的目的是尋求一種新的生活，免受祖國(guó)的貧困和戰(zhàn)亂之苦。free from此處是"擺脫，免受……"之意。

4. C 下文"They took the coin to their little apartment ―" 有提示。

5. A 祖母彎下腰，靠得近一點(diǎn)，査看路邊發(fā)光的到底是什么。examine此處是"仔細(xì)查看"之意，observe多指"帶有研究目的地觀察"，常指觀看事物的變化。

6. A 祖母發(fā)現(xiàn)是一枚硬幣后把它撿了起來(lái)，所以選A。pick up"撿起，拾起"。

7. D 這枚硬幣在祖母眼里是好運(yùn)的象征，此處是對(duì)前文omen的補(bǔ)充說(shuō)明，所以選sign。 moment時(shí)刻；gift禮物； message消息,

8. B 上文提到是一枚臟的硬幣，清洗一下才能使它閃閃發(fā)光，所以此處clean符合邏輯。

9. C 上文提到這枚硬幣是好運(yùn)到來(lái)的象征，所以祖母找到了一份"更好"的工作。

   10. D  go through經(jīng)歷。

  11. A  be laid off遭到解雇，被解雇。

  12.C 上文good fortune to come有提TT；。

13. D 上文提到祖母撿到硬幣的時(shí)候說(shuō)這是好運(yùn)到來(lái)的象征，這正是祖母的"預(yù)言"，所以此處選predicted,

14. B 根據(jù)語(yǔ)境可知，祖父死后，祖母"搬到""我們"家和"我們"住在一起。

15. A 祖母搬到"我"家住后，并沒(méi)有把硬幣馬上交給"我"，而是"許諾"要給"我"。下文信息表明：根據(jù)她的遺愿，"我"才得到了那枚硬幣。所以答案為A。

16. B 根據(jù)上文中的"Every day she told me this story."可知這個(gè)故事"我"在睡夢(mèng)中幾乎也能講得出來(lái)。practi?cally 事 實(shí)上， 幾乎。

  17.C 從上下文看，此處是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。

18.B 讀完全文可知，祖母非常重視這枚硬幣，所以想讓它代代流傳下去，所以此處用passing on。

19.D 祖母死后，根據(jù)遺愿（will)，"我"得到了硬幣，這正和上文的promised相吻合。

   20.C