2014高考英语阅读理解二轮试题6.docVIP

2014高考英语阅读理解二轮 阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项, 并标在答题卷的相应位置。用答题卡的考生, 先把选出的最佳选项标在试卷的相应位置, 再转涂到答题卡上。 Steve knew hed been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided hed try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which hed been adopted gave him his mothers name, Tallady. But online searches didn’t turn up any results about it, and Steve had to let it go. In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe’s store where Steve, then 22, worked as a deliveryman. When he mentioned the coincidence to his boss, his boss said, “You mean Tallady, who works here?” Steve and Tallady, a cashier, had said hello to each other a few times at the store, but they’d never really talked. He hadn’t even known her name. Steve thought there was no possible way she was his mother though they shared the same name. For a few months, Steve avoided Tallady. “I wasn’t sure how to approach her,” he told a local reporter. Finally, the agency volunteered to arrange their reunion. When Tallady realized that the nice guy she’d been waving at was his son, she sobbed. Shed always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son talked for almost three hours at a nearby bar. She’d given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was 23. “I wasnt ready to be a mother,” she told him. Married with two other children, Tallady says, “I have a complete family now. ” 56. Steve gave up the online search for his birth mother in 2003 because ______. A. the agency didn’t give him any help B. there was no information about his mother C. his mother didnt respond to him online D. he missed the information about his mother 57. What did Steve find about his mother online in 2007? ______. A. Her home address B. Her full name C. Her boss’s name D. Her new job 58. Why did Steve avoid Tallady for months? A. Because she didn’t want to talk to him. B. Because he was not fully prepared for the reunion. C