辽宁省实验中学分校2014-2015学年高二下学期期初考试 英语试题
第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （共15小题; 每小题2分，满分30分）
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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My husband Ollie had retired from teaching and we were making plans to travel together to Florida. Then he was terribly ill and became very weak, hardly able to speak. Weeks passed and it became clear that Ollie was near death, but I prayed day and night that he could get better.
One of us was always in Ollie's hospital room--either me, or our grown children, Bruce and Karen. One day, in his broken and weak speech, Ollie told Bruce, “Go home. You should be with Gwen.” Gwen was Bruce's wife. They had been married for six years and lived hundreds of miles away. Gwen was about to have a baby. We felt an extra sadness, knowing Ollie would never see his first grandchild.
“I don't want to leave you, dad, ” Bruce said. Ollie repeated, “You should be with Gwen. ” Reluctantly, Bruce left. “When the baby comes, ”he promised Ollie, “you will be the first to know. ” A few days later, around 2 p. m., Ollie awoke from a sleep. He turned and looked at me. I sat close to hear his weak words. “The baby is coming now. It's a boy, ” he said. For a moment his eyes were filled with tears. Then he went back to sleep again. Not long after that, Karen ran into the room. “Bruce called, ” she said, a smile lighting her face. “Gwen gave birth to a healthy baby boy around two o' clock. ”
Ollie smiled; he had been the first to know. That night, Ollie died in his sleep.
22. Why did Ollie want Bruce to be with Gwen?
A. Ollie didn't want his son to be absent when his baby was born.
B. Ollie wanted Bruce to bring the baby along as soon as it was born.
C. Ollie thought it was too much trouble for Bruce to stay at hospital.
D. Ollie couldn't bear his son seeing him dying with a broken heart.
23. The underlined word in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to .
A. Disappointedly B. Immediately
C. Excitedly D. Unwillingly
