[简答题]19.The reason was never explained to us.
20. My father had taught me, on his lap, before I. started school-A Child’ s Garden of Verses, and Eugene Field, his favorite poet.
21. I remember a storybook, which soon disappeared, about some Belgian children along a canal es- caping from Germans.
22. At any rate, these are all the books I recall from my childhood household.
23. From an early time, I had been a great reader.
24. A few volumes had come with us, I think, from Seatde to Minneapolis, but they were for looking at the pictures on the living-room floor while a grown-up watched, not for reading.
25. But after our parents’ death, almost no books were permitted.
26. Was it to save electricity, or because books could give "ideas" that would make us too big for our boots

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[单项选择]The reason for my refusal is （　） you’re unreliable.
A. because
B. that
C. due to
D. for

[单项选择]The reason why they ______ leave wasn’t explained to us．
A. had
B. had to
C. must D．might

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Ever since its discovery, Pluto has never really fitted in. After the pale and glowing giant Neptune, it is little more than a cosmic dust mite, swept through the farthest reaches of the solar system on a planet wildly tilted relative to the rest of the planets. It is smaller than Neptune’s largest moon, and the arc of its orbit is so oval that it occasionally crosses its massive blue neighbor’s path.
For years, it has been seen as our solar system’s oddest planet. Yesterday, however, scientists released perhaps the most convincing evidence yet that Pluto, in fact, is not a planet at all. For the first time, astronomers have peered into a belt of rocks beyond Pluto unknown until 10 years ago—and found a world that rivals Pluto in size. The scientists posit that larger rocks must be out there, perhaps even larger than Pluto, meaning Pluto is more likely the king of this distant realm of space detritus than the tiniest of the nine planets.
Wh
A. Rocks larger than Pluto have been found in the Kuiper Belt.
B. The Kuiper Belt did not exist when Pluto was first discovered.
C. The astronomers are divided with regard to the status of Pluto.
D. There is almost no difference between Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects.

[单项选择]I finally got the job I dreamed about. Never in my life ______ so happy. ( )
A. did I feel
B. I felt
C. had I felt
D. I had left

[单项选择]There is some reason for not giving up my career and （　） a different one.
A. taking in
B. bringing about
C. arising from
D. embarking on

[单项选择]It’s my position that gentlemen should reason thing out rather than ______ force.
A. respond for
B. resort to
C. resist to
D. propose to

[单项选择]My daughter has walked eight miles today. We never guessed that she could walk _____ far.
A. /
B. such
C. that
D. as

[单项选择]When I was a kid, I never knew what my parents-or anyone else’s-did for a living. As far as I could tell, all grownups had mysterious jobs that involved drinking lots of coffee and arguing about Richard Nixon. If they had job-related stress, they kept it private. Now American families are expected to be more intimate. While this has resulted in a lot more hugs, "I love you," and attendance at kids’ football games, unfortunately we parents also insist on sharing the frustrations of our work lives.
While we have complained about our jobs or fallen asleep in car-pool lines, our children have been noticing. They are worried about us. A new survey, "Ask the Children," conducted by the Family and Work Institute of New York City, queried more than 1000 kids between the ages of 8 and 18 about their parents’ work lives. "If you were granted one wish to change the way your parents’ work affected your life," the survey asked kids, "what would that wish be" Most parents assumed that children
A. are very anxious about their parents for their hard work
B. are looking forward to being with their parents
C. are very considerate about their parents
D. are very ambitious to change their parents’ work