Dad loved children. And he always wanted a
21 family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us all to visitors.
Once, Dad
22 presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, “And this is our
23 model, complete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all, we are
24 the 1953 model some time next month.”
But what he
25 most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted
26 that he had seen eleven people in our car, not
27 Mum and Dad.
28 , Dad called out over his shoulder, “You
29 the second baby up from the front here, Mister.”
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure whether he was telling us the
30 . Mum, who was a psychologist, once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the
31 . When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was
32 except that one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been
33 . When he pointed at the child that had been
34 Mum looked at him calmly and said, “That’s not one of ours, dear. He
35 next door.”
| 小题1: | | A．rich | B．lovely | C．close | D．large |
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| 小题2: | | A．surprisingly | B．nervously | C．generously | D．proudly |
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| 小题3: | | A．dearest | B．smallest | C．latest | D．youngest |
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| 小题4: | | A．ordering | B．selling | C．expecting | D．improving |
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| 小题5: | | A．hated | B．enjoyed | C．cared | D．hoped |
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| 小题6: | | A．doubtfully | B．excitedly | C．calmly | D．directly |
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| 小题7: | | A．counting | B．naming | C．showing | D．reading |
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| 小题8: | | A．Immediately | B．Carefully | C．Angrily | D．Easily |
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| 小题9: | | A．saw | B．missed | C．forgot | D．left |
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| 小题10: | | A．truth | B．story | C．adventure | D．accident |
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| 小题11: | | A．lecture | B．house | C．office | D．activity |
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| 小题12: | | A．expensive | B．regular | C．correct | D．fine |
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| 小题13: | | A．troublesome | B．careless | C．active | D．quiet |
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| 小题14: | | A．found | B．caught | C．punished | D．wounded |
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| 小题15: | | A．goes to | B．belongs to | C．works | D．plays |
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