题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
2015-2016学年吉林松原油田高中高二下期中考英语试卷
Hard as you try to break with family tradition, your heart remains at home on the holidays. — Tayari Jones
Everybody in my family always get excited about the Christmas. As the middle, artist child, I was going to do my own thing, make some new 1. From a book, I drew 2 —I would spend the holiday at an artist colony!
No one took the news very well. From the way my mother got angry 3 me, you would think that I was divorcing the family. 4, I held my ground and made plans for my winter adventure in New Hampshire. About 30 artists were there, and it was as well artsy as I had 5. It felt like my life had become a strange independent film.
By Christmas Eve, I had been at the colony more than a week. The novelty (新奇感) was 6 away. This was the holiday I'd always dreamed of. Not a Christmas sweater anywhere in 7. People here didn't even say “Christmas,” they said “holiday.” Entire relaxation. Then why was I so 8?
Finally, I 9 home. My dad answered, but I could 10 hear him for there was too much good-time noise in the background. He turned 11 the volume on the Stevie Wonder holiday album and 12 me that my mother was out shopping with my brothers. Now it was my turn to 13. They were having a fine Christmas without me.
Despite a heavy snowstorm, a large package 14 near my door at the artist colony on Christmas morning. Tayari Jones was written in my mother's beautiful 15. I grasped at that parcel(包裹) like I was five years old. Inside was a beautiful delicious cake, my 16. “Merry Christmas”, read the simple card 17. “We love you very much.”
As I sliced the cake, everyone 18 around. Mother had sent a homemade gift. It was a minor Christmas miracle (奇迹) that one cake managed to feed so 19. We ate it from paper towels with our bare hands, satisfying a 20 we didn't know we had.
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