2018年山东高考英语练习题及答案（3）
Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was 1 into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, was 2, with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn't 3 fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment(尴尬) at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof(证明)of how 4 I understood the pressure on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very slowly to understand. "I guess we all have to 5 something,"Mother said quietly. I could 6 her pain and the tension(紧张)of 7 the strong feeling that were interrupted by my 8. Suddenly, something inside me lit up. I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face 9 my shoulder and sobbed. I held her 10 and didn't try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could 11 was enough. At that moment, feeling Mother's 12 with feelings, I understood for the first time her being easy to 13. She was still my mother, 14 she was something 15: a person like me, capable of fear and 16 and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I sought 17 in her arms.
A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station 18.
"It's a job I can do, though." She said simply. But the evening practice on the green typewriter continued. I had a very 19 feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her 20 away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.
1. A. tired B. ashamed C. lazy D. shocked
2. A. crying B. smiling C. thinking D. whispering
3. A. understand B. type C. run D. return
4. A. eagerly B. worriedly C. little D. much
5. A. fail B. win C. forget D. obtain
6. A. kill B. watch C. sense D. recognize
7. A. holding back B. putting away C. sitting up D. stopping from
8. A. pain B. laughter C. arrival D. feeling
9. A. to B. up C. through D. against
10. A. tightly B. thoughtfully C. carefully D. politely
11. A. and that B. now that C. but that D. so that
12. A. hand B. face C. hair D. back
13. A. content B. break C. fall D. shout
14. A. therefore B. although C. yet D. however
15. A. more B. excellent C. strange D. huge
16. A. wound B. defeat C. cut D. hurt
17. A. kindness B. memory C. comfort D. support
18. A. supplied B. offered C. paid D. contributed
19. A. different B. hard C. pleasant D. serious
20. A. crying B. laughing C. tapping D. sewing
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本文通过对一位母亲失业后感情流露的描写，赞扬了这位母亲不甘愿服输的品格。
1. 刚刚放学回家，我被眼前的一幕震惊(shocked)得目瞪口呆。
2. 由下文的finding Mother in tears可知此处应填crying。
4. 在发现母亲伤心流泪时我所表现的尴尬和震惊证明了我对母亲肩负的压力了解得是多么的少(little)。
5. 母亲在自我安慰：我想我们大家都会失败。something前省略了介词in。
6. sense觉察到。
7. hold back抑制，控制。
9. 我伸出手抱住了母亲，她那时完全崩溃(broke)了。她把脸俯在我的肩上，抽泣起来。
10. 我紧紧地(tightly)抱着她。
11. 我知道我在做我应该做的事和我能做的事，那已经足够了。
12. 双手抱着母亲，故此处应是抚摸着母亲的背部(back)。
14-15. 然而(yet)母亲像我一样也有别的东西：恐惧、内心的痛苦(hurt)和失败。
18. the radio station offered为定语从句，修饰salary。
20. tap(在打字机上)敲打。
