《2024年全科王同步课时练习九年级英语全一册人教版》

III. 根据短文内容回答问题
　　Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia(栀子花) was delivered to my house. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to find out the sender's name and was just pleased with the beautiful white flower, in soft pink paper.
　　I never stopped imagining who the giver might be, though. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She'd ask me if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates. Perhaps it was the old man. He lived across the street. I'd delivered his mail during the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining
that it might be a boy that I had met.
　　One month before my high school graduation, my father died. I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, however, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect, with perhaps a bit of mystery (神秘).
　　I got married at the age of 22. My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
20. Did the writer know the sender's name when she received a white gardenia for the first time?
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21. What did the writer's mother do when she spent time daydreaming about the sender?
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22. Why did the writer feel sad before her high school graduation?
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23. Who was the real giver of the white gardenia according to the passage?
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24. How do you like the writer's mother?
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答案： 20.No,she didn't.　21.She encouraged the daydreams.　22.Because her father died.　23.The writer's mother.　24.She loved her children./She wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect, with perhaps a bit of mystery.