Passage 24

江淮十校2017届高三第二次联考

I would lose things. One　 1 　, my parents bought me a brown coat with a matching separate　 2 　to protect me from the snowy weather. They had　 3 　to buy me a coat with a hood（连衣帽）because they knew my weakness but I begged and promised that I would not lose the hat.

One day my father came home from work and asked me if I would　 4 　my new coat and hat. Upstairs I rushed two steps at a time,　 5 　to put on a fashion show. I pulled on the coat but I couldn’t find the hat. I　 6 　looked under my bed and in the closet, but it was　 7 　. Maybe he wouldn’t　 8 　that I wasn’t wearing it.

I flew　 9 　and spun around　 10 　on a stage, posing, smiling and modeling my new coat. “How pretty!More pretty with the matching hat!” he said. “I just want to show you the coat.” I said, still dancing around the hallway and trying to avoid the subject of the hat. I knew the hat was　 11 　.

12, my father seemed to have forgotten it, laughing and playing with me.　 13 　, in the middle of his laughing, he slapped me hard on the face. His　 14 　stung me deeply. I stood there, holding my hand to my burning cheek and　 15 　. Then he took my new hat　 16 　his pocket. He had found it lying on the street, and as he looked at me over the top of glasses, he said, “Maybe now you’ll learn not to be　 17 　.”

I’m a grown woman now, but I　 18 　lose things. What my father taught me that day was not a lesson of　 19 　. I learned not to　 20 　his laughter any longer, because even his laughter hurt.

1. A. spring　B. summer　C. autumn　D. winter

2. A. hat　B. pocket　C. scarf　D. hood

3. A. pretended　B. intended　C. designed　D. convinced

4. A. put away　B. show off　C. try on　D. look for

5. A. interested　B. astonished　C. content　D. excited

6. A. cautiously　B. naturally　C. nervously　D. eagerly

7. A. anywhere　B. nowhere　C. somewhere　D. everywhere

8. A. notice　B. realize　C. remember　D. forgive

9. A. inside　B. outside　C. upstairs　D. downstairs

10. A. even if　B. as if　C. only if　D. if only

11. A. hidden　B. thrown　C. lost　D. dropped

12. A Fortunately　B. Eventually　C. Obviously　D. Unexpectedly

13. A Therefore　B. However　C. Otherwise　D. Besides

14. A. suspicion　B. happiness　C. seriousness　D. anger

15. A. listening　B. crying　C. thinking　D. laughing

16. A. down into　B. away from　C. out of　D. up to

17. A. careless　B. confident　C. careful　D. clever

18. A. never　B. simply　C. still　D. even

19. A. flexibility　B. humor　C. honesty　D. responsibility

20. A. trust　B. ruin　C. share　D. cause