2020中考英语复习方案第三篇提分题型专练回答问题04亲情故事打喷嚏风俗词典历史试题.pdfVIP

回答问题 ( 四) 亲情故事 +打喷嚏风俗 +词典历史 A [2019 ·门头沟期末 ] Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia( 栀子花 ) was sent to my house. No card came with it. Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender ’s name and was just very plea sed with the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper. But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged this imagining. She’d ask meif there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man whom I looked after when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy. One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt very sad and didn ’t want to go to the coming graduation dance at all. And I didn ’t care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves muchlike the gardenia — lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery. My mother died ten days after I got married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming. 1. What color was the flowers the writer received? 2. How did the writer feel when she daydreamed about the giver? 3. Why d idn ’t the writer want to go to the graduation dance? 4. How old was the writer when she got married? 5. Who sent the flowers to the writer every year on her birthday?