As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents in Texas. And every few summers, we’d __16__ the caravan (旅游团队), a group of Airstream trailer owners who __17__ together around the U.S. and Canada.
I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked __18__ to these travels. On one particular __ 19__ ,I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the backseat. My grandfather was __20__ . And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the __21__.
At that age, I’d take any excuse to make estimates(估计) and do minor __22__.At any rate, I decided to do the math for my __23__. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of __24__ per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I’d come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the __25__ of the car, tapped my grandmother __26__ the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, “At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your __27__!” Because the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes __28__ smoker’s life.
I expected to be applauded for my __29__ and arithmetic skills. That’s not what happened.__30__, my grandmother burst into __31__. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. My grandfather was a highly intelligent, __32__ man. He had never said a harsh word to me. He pulled __33__ onto the shoulder of the highway. He stopped and got out of the car, __34__ me, and after a bit of silence,he gently and __35__ said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
小题1: | A.take | B.join | C.attend | D.visit |
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小题2: | A.work | B.study | C.travel | D.explore |
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小题3: | A.forward | B.backward | C.toward | D.upward |
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小题4: | A.holiday | B.research | C.trip | D.return |
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小题5: | A.talking | B.reading | C.training | D.driving |
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小题6: | A.scene | B.smell | C.band | D.type |
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小题7: | A.arithmetic(算数) | B.question | C.game | D.problem |
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小题8: | A.grandfather | B.grandmother | C.visitor | D.car |
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小题9: | A.cases | B.smokes | C.kinds | D.puffs(烟头) |
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小题10: | A.window | B.seat | C.back | D.front |
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小题12: | A.tour | B.life | C.distance | D.date |
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小题14: | A.cleverness | B.coolness | C.happiness | D.ability |
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小题15: | A.Eventually | B.Instead | C.Unfortunately | D.Though |
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小题16: | A.words | B.laughters | C.tears | D.screams |
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小题17: | A.stubborn | B.determined | C.lonely | D.quiet |
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小题19: | A.noticed | B.looked | C.glared | D.glanced |
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小题20: | A.angrily | B.excitedly | C.calmly | D.coldly |
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