I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton Train Station, back when the trains will ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to
1 the train that would take me to Boston and the college. I was eager(热切的) to go. College, with its
2 and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It
3 me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.
For eighteen years, we had never had a(n)
4 to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me,
5 I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He
6 me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were
7 it.
The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my
8 from his, and now I was learning it. The train
9 and I boarded(登上) it. My father looked smaller from the train. We
10 goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.
| 小题1: | | A．return | B．catch | C．design | D．watch | |
| 小题2: | | A．habits | B．license | C．courses | D．advertisements | |
| 小题3: | | A．shocked | B．supposed | C．helped | D．encouraged | |
| 小题4: | | A．time | B．luck | C．chance | D．interest | |
| 小题5: | | A．because | B．though | C．so | D．and | |
| 小题6: | | A．taught | B．beat | C．forgot | D．loved | |
| 小题7: | | A．saying | B．knowing | C．creating | D．describing | |
| 小题8: | | A．money | B．time | C．present | D．life | |
| 小题9: | | A．continued | B．broke | C．arrived | D．left | |
| 小题10: | | A．reached | B．waved | C．talked | D．cheered | |
