2018年成人高考高起点英语基础练习（9）_第5页

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　　Our Christmas boy

　　Christmas was a quiet affair when I was growing up. There were just my parents and me. I wished that someone I’d marry and have six children, and at Christmas my house would be full of energy and love.

　　I found the man who shared my dream, but we had not expected the possibility of infertility(不能生育) So we applied for adoption and, within a year, he arrived.

　　We called him our Christmas boy because he came to us during that season of joy, when he was just six years old. Then nature surprised us again. In rapid succession we added two biological children to the family—not as many as we had hoped for, but compared with my quiet childhood, three made an entirely satisfactory crowd.

　　As our Christmas boy grew, he made it clear that only he had the expertise(专门的知识或技术)to select and decorate the Christmas tree each year. He rushed the season, starting his gift list before we’d even finished the thanksgiving turkey. He pressed us into singing carols, our froglike voices contrasting with his musical gift of perfect voice. Each holiday he stirred us up, leading us through a round of merry chaos.

　　Our friends were right about adopted children not being the same. Through his own unique heredity(遗传),our Christmas boy brought color into lives with his good cheer, his wit. He made us look and behave better than we were.

　　Then on his 26th Christmas, he left us as expectedly as he had come. He was killed in a car accident on an icy Denvery street, on his way home to his young wife and infant daughter. But first he had stopped by the family home to decorate our tree, a ritual he had never abandoned.

　　Grief-stricken, his father and I sold our home, where memories clung to every room. We moved to California, leaving behind our friends and church.

　　71. “I found the man who shared my dream” (Para.2) suggests that the author ______.

　　A. married a man who also wanted to have many children

　　B. married a man who longed for the quietness of their family

　　C. found a man who was willing to be the author’s child

　　D. found a suitable child and immediately adopted him

　　72. According to the passage, the author decided to adopt a child because ______.

　　A. her husband insisted on doing so

　　B. the couple were unable to give birth at first

　　C. she loves other people’s children

　　D. she thought an adopted child could make her happier

　　73. The adopted boy was named according to ______.

　　A. his ability of decorating Christmas trees

　　B. his fondness of the Christmas season

　　C. the joy he brought to family

　　D. the time he came to the family

　　74. By saying “The nature surprised us again.” The author indicates that _____.

　　A. she gave birth to two children

　　B. the family had to move away

　　C. the adopted boy was a unique one

　　D. the adopted boy was killed in an accident

　　75. After the author’s adopted son grew up and got married, ______.

　　A. he was still the only one to bring cheer to the family on Christmas

　　B. he was still living with the author along with his wife and his baby daughter

　　C. he left the author and lived in another city with his wife and child

　　D. he quarreled with the author and moved away, never returned