One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to ______my strange problem—inability to ______. In the library, I found my way into the “Children’s Room.” I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the ______ at random. The cover of a book _____ my eye. It ______ a picture of a beagle(小猎兔狗). I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, _____ to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.
There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked _____ to my dog. I ran my fingers ______ the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. ______, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. ______ pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been ______ from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final _____ of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together. My mother’s call returned me to the ______ world. Something ______ me: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly _____ and I was going to read them. I never told my mother about my “miraculous” (奇迹般的) ______ that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable ______ in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was ______ that her son had read thousands of books, was ______ a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the ______ has held.
【小题1】A.compose | B.ban | C.defeat | D.cause |
【小题2】A.speak | B.read | C.write | D.play |
【小题3】A.shelf | B.floor | C.window | D.shell |
【小题4】A.distracted | B.caught | C.paid | D.raised |
【小题5】A.recognized | B.reviewed | C.presented | D.took |
【小题6】A.washed away | B.given off | C.broken off | D.given away |
【小题7】A.likely | B.different | C.similar | D.opposite |
【小题8】【小题9】A.Historically | B.Hopefully | C.Occasionally | D.Unknowingly |
【小题10】A.Though | B.Since | C.When | D.Before |
【小题11】A.differed | B.separated | C.broken | D.connected |
【小题12】A.setting | B.channel | C.scenery | D.scene |
【小题13】A.real | B.fairy | C.false | D.beautiful |
【小题14】A.occurred | B.happened | C.hit | D.took |
【小题15】A.wonderful | B.delighted | C.boring | D.regretful |
【小题16】A.goal | B.training | C.opinion | D.experience |
【小题17】A.procedure | B.improvement | C.recovery | D.speed |
【小题18】A.confused | B.proud | C.fortunate | D.fond |
【小题19】A.awarded | B.taught | C.refused | D.updated |
【小题20】A.sound | B.saying | C.words | D.observation |