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I was living in New York when my father called. He was working in the city and ___1__we meet for dinner. I knew a German restaurant I thought he’d like and was___2__to be able to recommend it. But more pleasing, and more surprising to me, was the __3__ we had dinner. For this time he didn’t spend the whole time giving advice I didn’t want. He talked with me. I __4__ him to the bus station. While we waited, he leaned on the railing over the main lobby. My father had once been a thick-bodied six-footer. Now I saw how thin and much smaller he was. He then told me something that __5__ me. He said he still felt, inside his __6__like a young man, and couldn’t believe he’d passed 60. “You don’t know, at your __7__, how fast time goes,” he said. He paused and then added. “If I never really talked with you boys as much as I’d have liked to, it was because there was so little time and so much I had to teach you. I just didn’t want you to make all the __8__ I made. I wanted to save you from some of the troubles I had.” I wanted to say, “Thank you, dad, for telling me that.” I knew at last I was a man to my father. We could talk with each other. But I was too __9__ by the evening to say what I was feeling. It was the last conversation we ever had. I was in Florida on a business trip when I was __10__home. Mary, our housekeeper, was there with my mother. Dad had had a stroke the previous night, after coming home from work. He’d always said he wanted to work till the day he died. He got his wish. My wish, for another talk with my father, would be unfinished.
I now know things I didn’t know when my father was alive. Time __11__ go especially fast. There is so much to teach my boy and so little time. I’ve __12__him change from baby to child to boy in less time certainly than I took. I know the __13__ always to be telling him things, the things he’ll need to ___14___ in life, to be a good person. But I remember my father’s final __15__. My boy will learn by __16__I am and what I do far __17__than what I tell him. When Eric, aged eight, says, “Dad, can we __18__?” I put down my book and say, “__19__.” I think for a second he wants my advice about something, but them I remember. He doesn’t want __20__. He just wants to talk. 1. A. wished B. hoped C. decided D. suggested 2. A. pleased B. interested C. proud D. willing 3. A. time B. way C. place D. happiness 4. A. fetched B. rushed C. hurried D. walked 5. A. worried B. astonished C. satisfied D. disappointed 6. A. brain B. body C. heart D. mind 7. A. work B. situation C. position D. age 8. A. experiments B. mistakes C. promises D. troubles 9. A. worried B. nervous C. excited D. frightened 10. A. called B. made C. ordered D. forced 11. A. do B. does C. did D. will 12. A. noticed B. seen C. found D. watched 13. A. desire B. hesitation C. worry D. eager 14. A. get in B. get out C. get on D. get down 15. A. decision B. lesson C. wish D. work 16. A. what B. where C. how D. which 17. A. little B. good C. more D. less 18. A. start B. begin C. play D. talk 19. A. Speak B. Sure C. No D. Wait 20. A. food B. money C. advice D. anything 答案：DABDB DDBCA BDACB ACDBC In the past ten years, America’s National Basketball Association (NBA) has grown increasingly dependent on the rest of the world to supply players. When Michael Jordan and Larry Bird won gold in Barcelona in 1992, the Americans were praised for teaching the world how to play basketball. This season, however, 20 percent of NBA rosters （花名册） will be filled by non-Americans. NBA commissioner David Stem happily embraces the trend. On a visit to Paris in October, Stern outlined his vision for the future, which is likely to see Europe hosting NBA games by 2010. The NBA is now planning to take China by storm. “Our experience in China has been that it is going to be explosive in its growth,” said Stern. The strategy in China is television. “We’ve made 14 deals in China with local and national networks on cable and satellite.” The success of Chinese centre Yao Ming has paved the way for the NBA marketing blitz in China. The NBA, which is broadcasted in more than 200 countries in 42 languages, will put that to the test in October 2004 when the Houston Rockets play two pre-season games against the Sacramento Kings in Beijing and Shanghai. The NBA knows that it needs a global market to compensate for tough times on home soil. “It doesn’t matter where the players come from, all the NBA teams now know that they have to scout （寻找）internationally,” said Terry Lyons, the NBA’s vice-president of international public relations. “It has increased the level of competition here.” As Frenchman Tony Parker and Argentine Emanuel Ginobili showed in winning championship rings with the San Antonio Spurs last season, many people can earn the respect of their American peers. Others, such as the Houston Rockets’ Chinese centre Yao Ming — number one draft pick in 2002 — and the Detroit Pistons’ 18-year-old Serb Darko Milicic — number two overall in this year’s draft — are icons in-waiting. It is the ultimate revolution — the rest of the world teaching the US how to play basketball. 64. According to the report, ___. A. Michael Jordan is still playing a very important role in NBA B. the part played by the foreign players in NBA will be great C. Yao Ming is to play two pre-season games in NBA D. European countries will host the 2004 NBA games 65. The underlined phrase “take China by storm” has the meaning of ___. A. NBA intends to make China its “marketing center” B. NBA is planning to set up some training centers in China C. there’ll be a big storm when NBA comes to China to play against the Sacramento Kings D. the NBA’s live basket games will be broadcasted on all the TVs in China 66. When the writer talked of “home soil”, he&
