It was a summer afternoon. I was a little boy watching my favorite program on TV. All that was about to change,   ___1___. CRACK! BOOM! The lightning and thunder came. ___2___ my mom ran into the living room and ___3___ the TV antenna (天线) wire. I started to ___4___. But I knew mom wasn’t going to ___5___ lightening hitting our antenna. There was no way she was going to let me go ___6___ and play either so I ___7___ my chair and reread a book for the tenth time. She placed ___8___ coffee cans under the leaks in the roof that my dad hadn’t had a ___9___ to fix yet.

Later after the ___10___ and thunder had passed and only a gently falling rain ___11___, I saw mom walk out and ___12___ on our old swing and ___13___ the rain. She loved watching it water the flowers, forests and gardens. She enjoyed seeing it ___14___ rivers. She knew it would be ___15___ water to drink and wash and clean and live. She had told me all this many times too, but my young mind was too ___16___ then to take all in. All I knew was that rain storms ___17___ no TV and no playing outside.

This time, though, I took the time to watch it ___18___. I saw the peace on mom’s face as she did too. Quietly we watched the rain ___19___ the world. I couldn’t explain why but I was so ___20___ to just be there with her. And I was happy that it was raining too.

1.1.

A instead

B moreover

C therefore

D however

解析：选D。考查副词辨析。根据划线部分前文“All that was about to change”可知一切都将改变，句意上存在转折。故选D。

2.2.

A Suddenly

B Quietly

C Slightly

D Slowly

解析：选A。考查副词辨析。根据前文“CRACK! BOOM! The lightning and thunder came.”电闪雷鸣突然来了，和后面的“my mom ran into”我妈妈跑进屋，可知，电闪雷鸣来得突然，妈妈跑进屋也很“突然”。故选A。

3.3.

A replaced

B added

C decorated

D removed

解析：选D。考查动词辨析。根据前文电闪雷鸣来了可知，妈妈跑进屋是为了把电视天线“移开”。故选D。

4.4.

A complain

B dream

C understand

D approve

解析：选A。考查动词辨析。根据前文“watching my favorite program on TV”可知，作者正在看最喜欢的电视节目，而妈妈突然跑进屋把电视天线移开，由此推断，作者开始“抱怨”。故选A。

5.5.

A stop

B alarm

C risk

D use

解析：选C。考查动词辨析。句意：但我知道妈妈不会“冒险”让闪电击中电视的天线。故选C。

6.6.

A aboard

B outside

C away

D forward

解析：选B。考查副词辨析。根据第二段最后一句“no TV and no playing outside”可知，下雨天作者的妈妈不让他“出去玩”。故选B。

7.7.

A cleared up

B settled into

C jumped out of

D searched for

解析：选B。考查动词短语辨析。句意：她也不可能让我出去玩，所以我“坐在”椅子上，把一本书重读第十遍。故选B。

8.8.

A open

B simple

C clean

D empty

解析：选D。考查形容词辨析。由前文可知，电闪雷鸣会下雨，因此作者的妈妈把一个“空的”咖啡罐放在屋顶的裂缝下面接水。故选D。

9.9.

A time

B challenge

C chance

D choice

解析：选C。考查名词辨析。妈妈把空的咖啡罐放在屋顶的裂缝下，那个裂缝是“我”爸还没来得及修理的。故选C。

10.10.

A lightning

B clouds

C storms

D rain

解析：选A。考查名词辨析。根据第一段“The lightning and thunder came.”可知电闪雷鸣来了，结合题空后文“and thunder had passed”可知电闪雷鸣停了。故选A。

11.11.

A appeared

B remained

C continued

D increased

解析：选B。考查动词辨析。根据题空所在句最后“the rain”以及题空前文“...had passed and only a gently falling rain”可知，电闪雷鸣停了了，只“剩下”一场细雨。故选B。

12.12.

A slow down

B get down

C sit down

D look down

解析：选C。考查动词短语辨析。电闪雷鸣停了，细雨绵绵地下，“我”妈妈走出去，“坐在”我们的旧秋千上。故选C。

13.13.

A touch

B watch

C smell

D taste

解析：选B。考查动词辨析。根据题空后文的“loved watching it”可知“我”妈妈坐在秋千上“看”雨。故选B。

14.14.

A throw into

B change into

C divided into

D pour into

解析：选D。考查动词短语辨析。根据题空后文“rivers”可知，雨水“川流不息地涌入”河流。故选D。

15.15.

A catching

B feeding

C providing

D collecting

解析：选C。考查动词辨析。句意：她知道雨将“提供”饮用水、洗漱用水、清洁用水和生活用水。故选C。

16.16.

A selfish

B foolish

C awkward

D innocent

解析：选A。考查形容词辨析。根据题空后文“All I knew was that...”“我”只知道，暴风雨来了就不能看电视和出去玩。妈妈说了很多次前文的内容，但作者什么也没听进去，由此可知作者当时一心只想着自己的事，年幼“自私”。故选A。

17.17.

A predicted

B marked

C meant

D suggested

解析：选C。考查动词辨析。句意：“我”只知道暴风雨“意味着”不能看电视，不能去外面玩。故选C。

18.18.

A suffer

B hit

C blow

D fall

解析：选D。考查动词辨析。根据上文可知，妈妈在看雨的时候，作者一心只想着不能看电视，但这一次，作者花了时间看“雨”落下来。故选D。

19.19.

A guard

B water

C decorate

D observe

解析：选B。考查动词辨析。根据题空上下文可知，雨水“浇灌”着这个世界。故选B。

20.20.

A happy

B shocked

C puzzled

D tired

解析：选A。考查形容词辨析。根据最后一句“I was happy”可知，作者无法解释为什么，但很高兴能和妈妈一起看雨，也很高兴那天下雨了。故选A。