4．Dad，
I'm writing to you as I feel it's been quite a while since we last spoke （two years to be exact，you hung up on me）．So how is Germany？How old are your other children now？What have you been up to this year？I finished my A-levels this summer．But enough small talk．On our European road trip in the summer，the journey took us close to your house and I asked Mum and my stepdad if we could pay a visit so that I could see you．Outside your house，I couldn't bring myself to get out of the car and knock on the door．
I've tried so many different forms of communication-email，the phone and I also suggested Skype．Yet I still can't get through to you．
My mum，stepdad and I sat around the table trying to work out why I had felt unable to knock on your door that day．At last it came to me．I think，perhaps subconsciously，I was saving myself the grief of your response．
Why can't your parental obligations stretch to all three of your children，not just your two recent ones？In our previous conversations，which ended suddenly，as your older son needed to be put to bed，I'd ask you how he was doing at school，and you'd talk about the weather．No one listening would be able to tell there was any difference between our relationship and one you might have with a neighbour．
Forget your excuses-that the flight to visit me is expensive and that you need to look after your other children （I hope you can see the irony（諷刺） in that）．While you watch their school plays，don't you consider that I would have liked you to be there at mine？
Perhaps the reason I didn't knock on your door was that I just don't care anymore．I'm exhausted trying to make this work．Maybe a part of me wasn't actually bothered whether I saw you or not that day-you've already lost so much meaning in my life； you are someone who just sends me a birthday card．
This isn't me being bitter，although I was initially．It's just a way of telling you how I really feel．
Phoebe
66．How did Phoebe feel when she was sitting in the car outside her father's house？C
A．Excited B．Puzzled C．Disappointed D．Embarrassed
67．Based on this letter，we can learn that Phoebe's fatherB．
A．lives in the same city with his daughter
B．got divorced and left Phoebe and her mother
C．has never had any communication with Phoebe
D．takes good care of all his children
68．What does the"irony"refer to in Paragraph 5？D
A．He ended his conversation with Phoebe just to put his son to bed．
B．He lives in a big house but has no money to buy an air ticket．
C．He talked with Phoebe，his daughter，as if with a neighbour．
D．Phoebe is also his child but he excuses himself from caring about her．
69．Phoebe didn't knock on her father's door that day becauseC．
A．she was afraid of his dad's unexpected responses to her visit
B．she didn't want to bother her father's happy life with his current family
C．she was tired of being the one who make efforts for their relationship
D．she suddenly realized that her father had no meaning in her life．
分析 本文是一封菲比寫給父親的信．菲比的爸媽離婚后，她一直跟母親和繼父生活在一塊．而她已經很久沒跟父親聯系了．父親以飛機票很貴和他需要照顧他的孩子為借口，不來看望她．但當菲比到達父親的房外時，她卻沒有去敲門．因為她覺得她已經很累了，她厭倦了僅僅是她自己在努力維護他們的關系．
解答 66．C細節推理題．根據第二段I've tried so many different forms of communication-email，the phone and I also suggested Skype．Yet I still can't get through to you．可知她試了很多不同形式的通信方式，還是不能跟她父親取得聯系．由此推知，當她在父親的房子外面時，她的內心是失望的．故選C．
67．B細節理解題．根據前三段的內容可知，菲比和父親已經很久沒有聯系了，現在菲比與母親和繼父生活在一起．由此推知，菲比的爸媽離婚了，離開了菲比和她的母親．故選B．
68．D詞義辨析題．根據第五段Forget your excuses-that the flight to visit me is expensive and that you need to look after your other children （I hope you can see the irony（諷刺） in that）．可知菲比的父親以飛機票很貴和他需要照顧他的孩子為借口，不來看望她．由此推知，"irony"的意思是"菲比也是他的孩子，但是他找借口不愿照顧她"．故選D．
69．C推理判斷題．根據倒數第二段Perhaps the reason I didn't knock on your door was that I just don't care anymore．I'm exhausted trying to make this work．Maybe a part of me wasn't actually bothered whether I saw you or not that day-you've already lost so much meaning in my life； you are someone who just sends me a birthday card．可知菲比不在乎自己為什么沒有敲父親的門，因為她已經很累了．父親在她的生命里已經失去了意義．由此推知，菲比已經厭倦了僅僅是她自己在努力維護他們的關系．故選C．
點評 本文考察學生的理解推斷能力，抓住文章的關鍵詞，采用尋讀的方法查找細節，能根據已知的結果推測導致結果的可能原因．
