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广东省广州市白云区
2021 年初中毕业班综合训练(二)二模
英 语(含答案)
一、语法选择(共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从各题所给的 A、B、C和 D 项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Grandma’s ___1___ birthday was near and I wondered what to give her. She had moved into a nursing home and didn’t have ___2___ for extra things. She insisted that she didn’t need any gift.
Finally, I came up with an idea. In her birthday card, I sent ___3___ a gift certificate(礼券)for “A letter a week for the next year!” It was ___4___ big promise. I’ve never been much of a letter writer, but now I was living far from home, and should be able to find plenty of news. Growing up just a mile from my grandparents, we’d always been ___5___. I knew that she’d love to hear ___6___ was going on in my life.
Grandma got fifty-two letters that first year. All showed her that I was thinking of her ___7___. As her next birthday came around, she asked for ___8___ letter gift certificate. In fact, for nine and a half years I wrote to her. She was seldom able to write back.
So much ___9___ in those years! At first I wrote about the cold Michigan winters. Then I wrote about my pregnancy (怀孕)! ____10____ the kids’ preschool years, I shared every funny thing ____11____ they did and said, and as they grew they started adding “picture letters” to the envelope. Once I flew home to visit Grandma and found that all the staff in the nursing home knew the details of my life, ____12____ they often read letters to her.
My last letter arrived the day after her ____13____. I never missed a letter and I felt I had given her the best gift I could. What I hadn’t counted on was how her gift ____14____ full circle to me.
____15____ later, while going through her things, my dad found a box full of letters from me. Those letters are a journal of my life, filled with moments and pictures I had completely forgotten. But Grandma saved those memories for me in my letters.
Life really does fly by. Loved ones come and go. But sometimes our gifts to others come back to u