Question

　I can never remember feeling good about myself. From the time I was a little child I always felt nobody ___1_____ me—not my parents, my brothers, my sisters, nobody. I never had any friends, anyone I could tell everything to. I liked to ____2_____ friends, but nobody seemed to care for me. I also had a lot of problems with my _____3_______. Until grade nine I was a head taller than everybody else. My classmates always called me names like Pole or Long-Legs. I felt the others were ____4_____ me.

　　Things weren't much better at home. The only way I could _____5_____ my problems when I was a little child was to cry a lot. My mother didn't quite ____6____ my feelings and the _____7_____ annoyed（使生氣）her and made her nervous.

　　Nobody in the family ever made an effort to understand me or even to talk to me. My family isn't exactly what you'd call warm. There's never any expression of _____8______. I'm sixteen and I can't remember my mother or father ever kissing us.

　　Things started getting really bad in high school. I changed schools. In the old school ______9______ I didn't have any friends, I still had classmates to go out with; in the new school I had no one. At that age everybody's in groups. I felt out of it. I tried, but I couldn't _____10______ with the others. I didn't like them. I thought something was wrong with me. They thought I was strange.

1．A. talked　　　　  B. liked　　　　　  C. spoke to　　　　 D. told

2．A. have　　　　　 B. make　　　　　  C. find　　　　　　 D. meet

3．A. weight　　　　 B. name　　　　　  C. height　　　　　 D. study

4．A. shouting to　　 B. playing with    　C. agreeing with　   D. laughing at

5．A. look at　　　 　B. deal with        C. work out　　　 　D. meet with

6．A. understand　　 B. hear             C. learn　　　      D. like

7．A. shouting　　　　B. laughing　　　  C. talking　　　　  D. crying

8．A. smile　　　　　B. voice　　　　　 C. anger　　　　　 D. love

9．A. even though　　 B. since　　　　　 C. because　　　　 D. as though

10．A. study　　　　 B. speak　　　　　 C. walk　　　　　  D. get on

Answer 1

1. B. 解析：根據語篇的基調及下文中的“I never had any friends.”應選B。

2. B. 解析：根據后半句的轉折及固定搭配，應是“我喜歡交朋友”，而不是“我喜歡有朋友”，故選B。

3. C 解析：根據下文中提到的“My classmates always called me names like Pole or Long-Legs”，我們可知作者在這里指的身高。故選C。

4. D  解析：常識可斷定選D。

5. B. 解析：deal with“解決問題”，而work out是“計算出”。

6. A. 解析：下文說“媽媽很生氣”，說明她“不能明白”我的感情。

7. D. 解析：根據上文得出。

8. D. 解析：根據語篇的基調，既然不是一個溫的家庭就沒有愛的表達。

9. A. 解析：even though=even if, 是“即使” ； as though=as if, 是“好像”。

10. D. 解析：短語搭配，“和某人相處”之意。