2020屆高考英語Units 11～12 Key to success Education 知識點復習
__4__ didn’t matter to me that some friends had new stingrays straight from the schwinn factory.or even that my dad put the sissy bar (保護杠)on backward，__5__ exposed me to some teasing before we __6__ it.i loved that bike.
so it was for my __7__.we weren’t poor.but we always had modest christmases.and i __8__ to do the same when i got married 27 years ago.
my wife，clarissa，had different __9__.she，too，had some __10__ christmases growing up.she vividly remembers when she was 14 or 15 years old and her father lost his __11__ in the construction industry.she overheard her __12__ talking about how __13__ they were.
so when her parents asked her what she wanted that year，she said，‘nothing.’ when her mother insisted she had to get __14__，clarissa asked for socks.’i felt very good about myself afterward，’ she recalls.
but as her family’s finances __15__，christmas went back to being a __16__ bigger production.by the time i arrived on the scene，the __17__ family—more than 20 people—would gather at her grandmother’s house in mexicali，mexico，on christmas eve.around 10 p.m.，santa (my future brotherinlaw in a costume) showed up with an enormous bag of __18__ and stepped into a roomful of children crying with __19__.
“it was all about the children，” says clarissa，who thought the experience was __20__.and she has spent hundreds of dollars on presents every year to duplicate(重溫)it.
本文記敘的是作者和妻子以前圣誕節和現在圣誕節的不同經歷，全文充滿了作者對過去生活的懷念和對未來生活的憧憬。
1.a.car b.bike c.book d.coat
解析：從下文可知父親給他買的自行車。
答案：b
2.a.popular b.common c.ordinary d.regular
解析：作者非常渴望得到，所以應該是很時髦的車型而ordinary 是普通的，common 常
見的。
答案：b
3.a.add b.equipped c.placed d.supplied
解析：父親給安裝了一個細長而后部翹起的車座、一個直把，座位后面還裝了一根保護
杠。supply是提供 add和to搭配。
答案：b
4.a.that b.this c.it d.what
解析：it 做形式主語代替后面的that 從句，而 this，that 都不能做形式主語。
答案：c
5.a.so b.thus c.which d.it
解析：從結構上可知此處是非限制性定語從句故用which。
答案：c
6.a.bought b.placed c.fixed d.changed
解析：父親把保護杠裝反了，在重新裝過之前我還受到了一些取笑。fix安裝，修理。
答案：c
7.a.childhood b.life c.children d.youth
解析：我童年就是這樣子。前兩段說的是小時侯的事情，所以用childhood。
答案：a
8.a.imagined b.expected c.suggested d.supposed