Ⅰ.阅读理解
I was just in France to visit my grandmother who is very dear to me.I don't get to cross the Atlantic very often, and she's now 96 years old, so every time I visit her, the two of us are very aware that it might be the last time we see each other.
Last year, I did a series of short video interviews about her life.I asked her what it was like growing up with her father in the 1910s, and living alone with two young children.I asked her about her greatest memories, and her favorite books, foods, etc.I learned a lot of amazing new things about her I had never known before.These were very intimate conversations, which made me know her better.
This year, I did not really have questions and I only had a great desire to make her know how much I loved her.I cooked for her and read her stories.I gave her a foot massage (按摩), which was her first ever! Before leaving, I was looking for a way to leave something meaningful behind besides the memory of our time together.Therefore, I wrote her five different love notes, and hid them in different places where I knew she would eventually find them.
I left really joyously knowing that these cards would surely cheer her up after I left.She called me as I was travelling back to Paris to catch my plane back to the US and said，“I found your cards! By the time I discovered the last one, I was laughing out loud! Thank you so much, my sweetheart！”I smiled to myself，knowing she still had two more to go! It was Sunday, so my guess was that she had not checked her mailbox and had not yet driven her car!
本文是记叙文，作者讲述了自己去看望祖母的温馨回忆。
1．The underlined word “intimate” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A．close B．inspiring C．impressive D．usual
答案：A
解析：词义猜测题。根据第二段中的“growing up with her father in the 1910s，and living alone with two young children.I asked her about her greatest memories，and her favorite books，foods”可知，这是作者和祖母之间的亲密交谈，故选A。
2．What can be inferred from the passage?
A．The author went to France to visit her grandmother very
frequently.
B．The author didn't expect her grandmother to find all the five cards.
C．The author and her grandmother enjoyed the time they stayed together.
D．The author's home is not far from her grandmother's.
答案：C
解析：推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Last year，I did a series of short video interviews about her life”，第三段中的“I cooked for her and read her stories.I gave her a foot massage(按摩)，which was her first ever”以及“I wrote her five different love notes，and hid them in different places where I knew she would eventually find them”等内容可知作者和祖母在一起时很充实快乐，故选C。
3．From the last paragraph, we know that ________.
A．Grandmother found all the cards immediately the author left
B．Grandmother had not checked her mailbox before the call
C．Grandmother always calls the author before she gets on the airplane
D．Grandmother does exercise by finding the cards
答案：B
解析：推理判断题。根据文章最后一段中的“I smiled to myself，knowing she still had two more to go！It was Sunday，so my guess was that she had not checked her mailbox and had not yet driven her car”可知，祖母以为她找到了最后一张卡片，其实还有两张她没找到，一张藏在信箱里，另一张藏在车里，由此推断，祖母在打电话前没有看信箱，故选B。
4．What might be the best title of the passage?
A．The Wonderful Time with Grandmother
B．The Meaningful Love Notes
C．The Person Who Influences Me Most
D．The Family Has an Old, a Treasure
答案：A
解析：标题归纳题。作者讲述了自己去法国看望祖母，和祖母在一起聊天谈心，彼此都很快乐。“和祖母在一起的美好时光”概括了文章主要内容，故选A。
