No. 1
（2020 湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学高三阶段检测）In my 40s, as a new solo（独自的）traveller, I spent endless time looking around souvenir shops in tourist areas. It never ____1____ me that in shops where merchants weren’t ____2____ big rents, I could save more money. Besides. I didn’t give much ____3____ for the size of what I was buying, nor did I care that I would have to take the ____4____ to carry it around for the duration of my holidays.
I learned and ____5____. But I also found that over time, the objects that were ____6____ to me changed too. As my tastes matured, my bags got ____7____, and so did the time I spent buying cheap goods.
In my 50s I ____8____ boxes from around the world, not ordinary boxes but ones ____9____ made by artists. These were small so they ____10____ easily into every place of my backpack. The ____11____ was delightful — the silver from South Korea, the painted camel bone from Egypt and dozens more took up their ____12____ in my house.
Then a ____13____ thing happened. My interest in the collection ____14____ while my grand children’s interest in it grew, so a wonderful and new ____15____ began. Each time a child came to visit, he or she was ____16____ to pick a box. My popularity ____17____ increased among the children, and pretty soon my collection had been ____18____ among the little people in family. Each gift was ____19____ by a mini travel story explaining where the ____20____ was found, who had made it and what that country was like.
1. A. counted on B. dawned on C. called on D. concentrated on
2. A. lending B. investing C. purchasing D. paying
3. A. advice B. anxiety C. concern D. support
4. A. trouble B. way C. chance D. lead
5. A. applied B. adjusted C. judged D. checked
6. A. accessible B. appealing C. shiny D. disappointing
7. A. smaller B. bigger C. heavier D. smarter
8. A. designed B. discovered C. collected D. received
9. A. lovingly B. intentionally C. carelessly D. ambitiously
10. A. cut B. got C. set D. fitted
11. A. value B. pattern C. fashion D. variety
12. A. role B. position C. duty D. time
13. A. strange B. vital C. terrible D. funny
14. A. grew B. changed C. faded D. rose
15. A. routine B. hobby C. journey D. principle
16. A. forbidden B. allowed C. advocated D. promoted
17. A. normally B. casually C. fortunately D. delightfully
18. A. exposed B. awarded C. divided D. exchanged
19. A. accompanied B. clarified C. described D. confirmed
20. A. collection B. story C. box D. backpack
