[单项选择]His parents （　） out this evening
A. all are
B. are all
C. both are
D. are both

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I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.
I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile—Charlie Chaplin’s smile.
"Arch, it’s Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."
He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me
A. sent out.
B. released.
C. dispatched.
D. removed.

[单项选择]Every evening he did his homework, with his kind mother ______.
A. was sitting by
B. sitting beside
C. sits aside
D. sits beside

[单项选择]The son has been （） his parents （）about his examination results.（）
A. keeping…in the dark
B. making…in the dark
C. bringing…in the dark
D. holding…in the dark

[单项选择]Passage 2 One evening I went out and left my 17-year-old son in charge of his 8-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister. On this occasion, the chore was made less troublesome by the presence of his girlfriend. I left with complete confidence that the older children would do a wonderful job of babysitting the younger children and the younger children would do a wonderful job of accompanying the older ones. Later, I discovered that complete confidence was the last thing I should have left home with. I had decided to return home earlier than planned so that my son and his girlfriend could go out. I called home with this happy news. But instead of hearing his cheerful, grateful voice on the other end of the line, all I heard was the sound of a telephone ringing. It was, I should point out, after 10 p.m., when the two younger children should have been in bed, and when the two older children should have been answering the phone. “I’ll give him a lesson,” I said. I decided they
A. she knew that his girlfriend was a good baby-sitter
B. she could not find a baby-sitter on that winter night
C. the older children and the younger ones would get along well
D. she believed he was old enough to take care of the younger ones

[填空题]Every evening after supper, my parents would go out _____ a work.

[单项选择]His parents _____ his money, so he is in trouble now.
A. cut off
B. cut through
C. gave up
D. brought down

[单项选择]He ______ conscious of his duties to his parents as a filial son.


A. was and always will be
B. has to be and always will be
C. had been and always will be
D. has been and always will be