In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood a massive grandfather clock. Meals in that dining room were a time for three
36 to become one. The table was always spread with
37 containing love as the main ingredient (成分). And that grandfather clock stood like an old family friend, watching over the
38 that was a part of our lives.
As a child, the old clock fascinated me. I
39 and listened to it during meals. Even more wonderful to me was my grandfather’s ritual (老习惯). He wound (上发条) that clock with a(n)
40 key carefully each day. I remember watching
41 my grandfather took the key from his pocket and opened the hidden door in the clock. He inserted the key and wound — not too much, nor too
42 . He never let that clock wind down and
43 . He showed us grandchildren how to open the door and let us each take
44 winding the key.
After my grandfather died, it was days after the funeral
45 I remembered the clock! The tears
46 freely when I entered the dining room. The clock stood there quiet.
Some time later, my grandmother gave me the key. The old house was
47 . No laughter over the dinner table, no ticking or chiming of the
48 — all was still. I took the key in my shaking hand and
49 the clock door. All of a sudden, I was a
50 again, watching my grandfather with his silver-white hair and blue eyes. He was there,
51 at me, at the secret of the clock's magic, at the key that held so much power.
I stood there,
52 in thought for a long time. Then slowly and 53 I inserted the key and wound the clock. It sprang to life. Tick-tock, tick-tock, life and chimes were breathed into the dining room, into the house and into my
54 . With the movement of the hands of the clock, my grandfather
55 again.
| 小题1: | | A．persons | B．generations | C．families | D．stages |
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| 小题2: | | A．water | B．soup | C．rice | D．food |
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| 小题3: | | A．embarrassment | B．sorrow | C．laughter | D．depression |
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| 小题4: | | A．sang | B．laughed | C．ate | D．watched |
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| 小题5: | | A．big | B．special | C．black | D．ugly |
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| 小题6: | | A．since | B．unless | C．as | D．until |
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| 小题7: | | A．little | B．fast | C．high | D．hard |
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| 小题8: | | A．talk | B．run | C．break | D．stop |
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| 小题9: | | A．turns | B．trouble | C．pains | D．action |
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| 小题10: | | A．once | B．when | C．before | D．that |
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| 小题11: | | A．exposed | B．flowed | C．expressed | D．spread |
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| 小题12: | | A．cold | B．different | C．quiet | D．full |
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| 小题13: | | A．table | B．house | C．door | D．clock |
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| 小题14: | | A．locked | B．opened | C．turned | D．closed |
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| 小题15: | | A．man | B．father | C．child | D．god |
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| 小题16: | | A．winking | B．shouting | C．glaring | D．glancing |
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| 小题17: | | A．lost | B．lived | C．missed | D．interrupted |
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| 小题18: | | A．nervously | B．excitedly | C．steadily | D．carefully |
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| 小题19: | | A．account | B．heart | C．anxiety | D．pocket |
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| 小题20: | | A．died | B．disappeared | C．lived | D．smiled |
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