Dad loved children. And he always wanted a 21 family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us all to visitors.
Once, Dad 22 presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, “And this is our 23 model, plete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all, we are 24 the 1953 model some time next month.”
But what he 25 most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted 26 that he had seen eleven people in our car, not 27 Mum and Dad. 28 , Dad called out over his shoulder, “You 29 the second baby up from the front here, Mister.”
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure whether he was telling us the 30 . Mum, who was a psychologist, once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the 31 . When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was 32 except that one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been 33 . When he pointed at the child that had been 34 Mum looked at him calmly and said, “That’s not one of ours, dear. He 35 next door.”
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(答案→)D
解析：本文是一篇记述文，讲述一位父亲特别喜欢孩子，结果他有了12个孩子，他以此为骄傲，到处炫耀。
【小题1】D 从后一句最终他有12个孩子可以看出他希望有一个大家庭。故D正确。
【小题2】D 考查对上下文的形容词的理解。A令人惊讶B紧张C慷慨D自豪；父亲把三个孩子自豪地介绍给客人。
【小题3】C dearest最贵的；smallest最小的；latest最新的；youngest最年轻的；这里的latest表示的最新得到的，最小的，small不用指小孩小。
【小题4】C 这里指expecting表示期待着再有一个孩子。
【小题5】B 从下文可知他最喜欢做的事情就是带我们出去兜风。
【小题6】B 此处意思是一个村民看到车里有11个孩子兴奋地喊起来。doubtfully 怀疑；excitedly兴奋； calmly镇定；directly直接的。
【小题7】A考查动词词义和句子理解。此处指不包括父母亲有11个人。counting包括；naming为------命名。
【小题8】A考查副词词义。此处指父亲对邻居的喊声立即作出反应。
【小题9】B 考查动词词义辨析。Miss错过；此处指少了一个。
【小题10】A 考查名词词义辨析。Truth真相，事实；adventure冒险；accident事故；这里意思是不知道他是不是和我们说真的。
【小题11】B 考查句子意思和名词用法。从后文可知让他照顾家，用the house指代一家人。
【小题12】D 考查句子意思和Expensive贵的；regular通常的，有规律的；correct正确的；fine好的；从后文可知除了一个小孩调皮，别的一切都好。
【小题13】A 考查形容词词义。Troublesome麻烦的；careless粗心的；active主动的，活跃的；小孩子惹麻烦了。
【小题14】C 考查动词词义。Be caught被抓住；be punished被惩罚；be wounded受伤；此处指调皮的孩子受到了惩罚。
【小题15】B 考查固定词组belong to属于；他是邻居家的孩子。