完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
For much of our life, my mother and I hated each other. I spent most of my childhood 36 with her – or trying to avoid her, as well as her bitterness, unhappiness and endless smoking. I learned how to defend myself with 37 designed to hurt her. In turn, she vowed I would have a 38 who would feel the way about me that I felt about her.
Many years later when my husband and I decided to have a child, I was 39 to have a girl. I couldn’t 40 the though of a daughter who might not love me – or who would want to 41 me. As soon as I became pregnant, I was convinced I was having a boy. In the delivery room, on my doctor putting my baby into my arms, I couldn’t wait to tell my mother I had a 42 , while “he” was a girl. At that moment, I couldn’t imagine wanting anyone but her.
43 I couldn’t forget my mother’s teasing vow, even after she died and I saw her in a more 44 light. As my daughter got older, whenever we argued, I worried we were 45 the same awful path that my mother and I had gone down.
Last summer, my daughter 46 18, the same age when my mother threw me out of her apartment for 47 . However, I was with her, planning for her first year at college. When my husband and I dropped her off at her school in New York, I finally 48 to her my biggest fear that we would end up like me and my mother. “That will never happen.” she 49 me, kissing me goodbye. Six weeks later, my husband and I returned to the campus. I 50 myself arguing with my daughter about her messy room, not using the library and her mistake of choosing the room near the bathroom. I couldn’t stop myself. And then 51 came: “You’re just like your mother,” my daughter screamed. “I hate you.” And then she 52 .
I finally heard the words I had always dreaded. But maybe that was because I 53 them. I had always worried the bond I shared with my daughter would 54 . later that evening, we picked my daughter up to a restaurant. We ate 55 . But when we separated, I hugged her. The next morning, she called telling she loved me. There wasn’t anything to be afraid of anymore. There was just a relationship we should work on with each other.
36.A.sharing B.playing C.communicating D.fighting
37.A.actions B.activities C.words D.weapons
38.A.husband B.friend C.child D.daughter
39.A.afraid B.unlucky C.uncertain D.willing
40.A.have B.bear C.hold D.afford
41.A.love B.escape from C.obey D.keep from
42.A.daughter B.son C.baby D.life
43.A.Furthermore B.But C.And D.Or
44.A.bright B.annoying C.understanding D.unfriendly
45.A.on B.in C.at D.along
46.A. became B.grew C.went D.turned
47.A.good B.nothing C.my good D.all
48.A.presented B.told C.admitted D.informed
49.A.promised B.pardoned C.referred D.reflected
50.A.wanted B.asked C.forced D.found
51.A.it B.she C.they D.that
52.A.walked away B.looked away C.gave away D.stormed away
53.A.deserved B.demanded C.equaled D.appreciated
54.A.tear B.break C.crash D.last
55.A.in vain B.in general C.in silence D.in brief