【正文】 B. Berlin a really cool city C. Berlin’s beautiful buildingsD. Berlin a city of living art B Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia (梔子花 ) was sent to myhouse. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped trying to find out the sender’s name and was just pleased with the beautiful flower, in soft pink paper. I couldn’t stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments werespent daydreaming(幻想 )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 who I once helped. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met. A month before my high school graduation(畢業(yè) ), my father died. I was so sad that I became pletely uninterested in my ing graduation dance, and I didn’t care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss (過 ) 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. My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped ing. 31. The writer receivedon her birthday since she was 11. A. a white gardenia B. a card C. a card and soft pink paper D. a gardenia and a card 32. The writer was very______ when she was imagining who sent the flower. A. happy B. sad C. worried D. nervous 33. It can be inferred (椎斷 ) from the passage that_______. A. the writer didn’t get a new dress for the dance B. the writer probably joined in the graduation dance C. the writer’s father died ten years earlier than her mother D. the writer’s father received a gardenia on each of his birthdays 34. The writer got the gardenias from______ on her birthdays. A. her classmate B. the old man C. the boy D. her mother 35. The passage mainly talks about________. A. what a gardenia meant B. what a girl dreamed about C. how a mother loved her children D. how a daughter missed her father C Lots of students know what a marathon (馬 拉松賽跑 ) is, but perhaps they don’t know what a triathlon is. The triathlon is a sport that has three parts swimming, bicycling and running. It is not an easy sport, but a man named Joe Salter is very good at it. A few months ago, he finished a special triathlon — he juggled (拋起接住 ) three balls all the time during the triathlon. That is to say, he kept on throwing and catching three balls while he was swimming, riding a bicycle and running. 31yearold Joe is from Florida, the USA. He loves juggling and he started at the age of 8. Joe did well in juggling. Later, he got the idea to do a triathlon and juggle at the same time to make it more fun. Many juggling fans laughed at his idea and thought it was just a joke. But Joe didn’t give up and he kept practising it. Because of his hard work, he made it at last. Talking about his triathlon, Joe said swimming was the hardest part. “l(fā)t was difficult and plex(復(fù)雜的 ), he said. “I basically only used my legs, so it took quite a lot of work. Also, swimming in open water made it a little harder. It was not like in a pool.” 36. According to the writer, the mon triathlon_________. A. is a difficult sport B. is more famous than the marathon C. includes the three parts and juggling D. includes the marathon and swimming 37. Joe’s triathlon was special because_______ during the triathlon. A. he picked up three balls B. he played juggling C. he carried his bicycle on his shoulder D. he threw away all his balls 38. Many juggling fans thought Joe’s idea________. A. could not be realized B. should not be laughed at C. should be realized as soon as possible D. could make triathlon more exciting 39. The underlined (畫 線的 ) part “made it in the 2nd paragraph probably means________. A. fot B. failed C. succeeded D. left 40. Swimming was the hardest part for Joe mainly because_______. A. he swam in open water B. his swimming skills were