Question

完形填空 (共15小題，每小題2分，滿分30分)
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (梔子花) was     1    to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always     2    -- it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just     3    in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower lying in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped     4    who the giver might be. My mother     5     to these imaginations. She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing     6    . I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had     7    me even though I didn’t know him.
One month before my high-school graduation, my father died. My feelings     8     from sorrow to fear and     9   : my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely     10    in my coming graduation, the senior-class play and the ball. But my mother would not hear of my losing any of those things. Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress, but it was the     11    size. When my father died, I forgot about the dress.
The day before my ball, I found that dress-- in the right size—hanging over the living room sofa. It was     12     to me so lovingly. I didn’t     13    if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel     14   , filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of     15  .
My mother died ten days after I was married. The following year the gardenia stopped coming.
1. A. given         B. delivered            C. taken            D. brought
2. A. useful            B. helpful          C. in vain      D. hopeful
3. A. delighted     B. pleasant         C. pleasing     D. satisfied
4. A. considering       B. remembering      C. imagining        D. recalling
5. A. referred      B. led              C. preferred        D. contributed
6. A. appreciation  B. honor            C. grateful     D. respect
7. A. observed      B. watched          C. noticed      D. hated
8. A. ranged            B. differed         C. suffered     D. judged
9. A. shock         B. happiness            C. depressing   D. anger
10. A. uninterested B. interested           C. unhappy      D. disappointing
11. A. wrong            B. false                C. proper       D. right
12. A. provided     B. presented            C. introduced   D. awarded
13. A. doubt            B. wonder           C. desire       D. care
14. A. loving           B. loved                C. respected        D. honored
15. A. trouble      B. despair          C. problem      D. sorrow

Answer 1

1B  2C  3A  4C  5D 
6A  7C  8A  9D  10A  
11A  12B  13D  14B  15D

解析1. B. 梔子花被送到我家。
2. C. 給花店打電話總是無濟于事（in vain）。
3. A. delighted意為“高興的”。自己沉陷于這束發出芳香的花中。
4. C. 本段第二句的imagine對本選項有提示作用。
5. D.  contribute to 有“促成”之意，本句表明媽媽幫助我去想象。
6. A.  appreciation 因為做了善事，受到別人的感激。
7. C.  notice sb. 意為“關注某人”。
8. A.  range from …to …意為“從……到……變化。
9. D. 父親錯過了我人生中最重要的事情，不能分享我的幸福，使我感到有一點兒生氣。
10. A. 父親的去世使我對即將到來的畢業不感興趣。
11. A. 與后文的“in the right size”對應。
12. B. be presented 意為“被呈現”。
13. D. care意為“在乎”。
14. B. 母親希望她的女兒能感受到愛。
15. D. 即使面對父親剛剛去世的悲痛。