(3)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
What is a person supposed to do with the collections of a lifetime? Not 21 the holiday decorations, but all the things that I 22 : an instrument my son dragged around, tea cups my mother loved, the wooden toys my father made... . The 23 for thinking about cleaning up the house was that every time I did the laundry, I saw many boxes filled with things I no longer 24 . Finally, I decided to 25 those old things. I started from the basement but soon returned to my office 26 I couldn't deal with the big things down there. 27 , it soon turned out that everything I found was a big thing.
“It can be both fun and sad to 28 photographs and letters, but one thing is 29 : you will unquestionably get stuck down memory lane (回忆往事) and may never get down to 30 anything else,” a writer wrote.
I got stuck down memory lane because the datebooks (记事本) I 31 were little letters to myself. For five years I 32 what I had done in tiny print (小字体) to fit into tiny squares (方格). Though many squares are 33 , there are still a lot of days, and those days hold 34 . The datebooks mean 35 to anyone but me. I should have thrown them away, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t 36 with out-of-focus photos, either, or so many 37 : “Things as They Are,” the first book I bought; “From the Pen of the Dreamer” by my childhood acquaintance Lenny Silver.
There’s a ridiculous glass cat, but there’s a story 38 to it. My mother loved it but she 39 it to her sister. And when her sister died, her family gave it to me.
Our things hold memories and the times of our lives, which is why it is so 40 to let them go.
21. A. yet B. even C. still D. just
22. A. made B. valued C. demanded D. changed
23. A. necessity B. desire C. reason D. result
24. A. needed B. approved C. forgot D. owned
25. A. deal with B. rely on C. look for D. learn from
26. A. though B. because C. unless D. until
27. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. Otherwise
28. A. go through B. refer to C. hand over D. show off
29. A. necessary B. urgent C. rare D. certain
30. A. doubting B. cleaning C. imagining D. accepting
31. A. bought B. borrowed C. found D. returned
32. A. translated B. wrote C. copied D. admired
33. A. empty B. beautiful C. public D. simple
34. A. joys B. squares C. expectations D. treasures
35. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
36. A. agree B. compare C. play D. part
37. A. books B. letters C. toys D. pictures
38. A. sent B. introduced C. read D. attached
39. A. explained B. gave C. proved D. applied
40. A. fair B. fun C. hard D. important
★文中我不认识的词汇有：_______________________________________________
★文中我不理解的句子有：（在文中用横线划出）
【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。讲述了作者整理旧物的时候，引发了许多珍贵回忆的故事。
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
What is a person supposed to do with the collections of a lifetime? Not 21 the holiday decorations, but all the things that I 22 : an instrument my son dragged around, tea cups my mother loved, the wooden toys my father made... . The 23 for thinking about cleaning up the house was that every time I did the laundry, I saw many boxes filled with things I no longer 24 . Finally, I decided to 25 those old things. I started from the basement but soon returned to my office 26 I couldn't deal with the big things down there. 27 , it soon turned out that everything I found was a big thing.
“It can be both fun and sad to 28 photographs and letters, but one thing is 29 : you will unquestionably get stuck down memory lane (回忆往事) and may never get down to 30 anything else,” a writer wrote.
I got stuck down memory lane because the datebooks (记事本) I 31 were little letters to myself. For five years I 32 what I had done in tiny print (小字体) to fit into tiny squares (方格). Though many squares are 33 , there are still a lot of days, and those days hold 34 . The datebooks mean 35 to anyone but me. I should have thrown them away, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t 36 with out-of-focus photos, either, or so many 37 : “Things as They Are,” the first book I bought; “From the Pen of the Dreamer” by my childhood acquaintance Lenny Silver.
There’s a ridiculous glass cat, but there’s a story 38 to it. My mother loved it but she 39 it to her sister. And when her sister died, her family gave it to me.
Our things hold memories and the times of our lives, which is why it is so 40 to let them go.
21. A. yet B. even C. still D. just
22. A. made B. valued C. demanded D. changed
23. A. necessity B. desire C. reason D. result
24. A. needed B. approved C. forgot D. owned
25. A. deal with B. rely on C. look for D. learn from
26. A. though B. because C. unless D. until
27. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. Otherwise
28. A. go through B. refer to C. hand over D. show off
29. A. necessary B. urgent C. rare D. certain
30. A. doubting B. cleaning C. imagining D. accepting
31. A. bought B. borrowed C. found D. returned
32. A. translated B. wrote C. copied D. admired
33. A. empty B. beautiful C. public D. simple
34. A. joys B. squares C. expectations D. treasures
35. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
36. A. agree B. compare C. play D. part
37. A. books B. letters C. toys D. pictures
38. A. sent B. introduced C. read D. attached
39. A. explained B. gave C. proved D. applied
40. A. fair B. fun C. hard D. important
★文中我不认识的词汇有：_______________________________________________
★文中我不理解的句子有：（在文中用横线划出）
【文章大意】这是一篇记叙文。讲述了作者整理旧物的时候，引发了许多珍贵回忆的故事。
