第一节　完形填空(共20 小题;每小题1.5 分,满分30 分)

　　阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　The young woman was feeling a little down on that Sunday in May.　1　,it was Mother's Day...and 800 miles　2　her from her parents in Ohio.She had called her mother that morning to wish her a 　3　Mother's Day,and her mother had mentioned how 　4　 the yard was now that spring had arrived.As they talked,the young woman could 　5　 smell the peaceful purple lilacs(丁香花)hanging on the big bush outside her parents' back door.

　　Later,when she mentioned to her husband how she 　6　 those lilacs,he immediately drove her and two children to a hill 　7　 with purple lilacs.With a smile,the young woman buried her 　8　 in the flowers,drinking in the sweet smell and the　9　 it brought back.And then,carefully,she picked a lilac here,another one there until her arms full of them.

　　　10　,they returned to their car for the trip home.While the kids 　11　 talked and the man attentively drove,the woman sat with a smile,surrounded by her flowers,a 　12　 look in her eyes.They stopped at a nursing home,where an elderly 　13　 was sitting in her wheel-chair,　14　,head bowed,her back to most of the other patients.　15　 across the porch railing went the flowers to the old woman.She slowly 　16　 her head,and smiled.

　　For a few moments,the two women chatted,and both 　17　 with happiness.As they drove back for home,the kids asked,"Mom,who was that?Why did you give her our flowers?Is she somebody's mother?"

　　The mother said she didn't know the old woman,　18　 it was Mother's Day,and she seemed so lonely,and who wouldn't be 　19　by flowers?"Besides," she added,"I have all of you,and I still have my mother,　20　 she is far away.That woman needed those flowers more than I did."

1.A.Above all B.At least

C.What's more D.After all

答案:D

解析:毕竟,这是母亲节......此处表示了女人对母亲的想念,所以在这一天心情不是很好。after all"毕竟"。

2.A.freed B.took

C.separated D.blocked

答案:C

解析:800英里路把她与在俄亥俄州的父母分离开来。separate"使分离"。