Miss Lovely began to work in our office last year. She thought she was__1__and h
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Miss Lovely began to work in our office last year. She thought she was__1__and hardly talked with us. Her house was a little far from our company and she had to go to work __2__ every day.
Of course, she had to spend a lot of __3__on this. She decided to have her own car, and began to __4__how to drive two months ago. Now she was able to drive, but had to__5__a licence before she could buy a car. It took her a week to__6__the traffic regulations. She was sure she would__7__the examinations.
It was finally time for her to take the examinations yesterday. Miss Lovely didn"t come to work. We__8__she would drive her new car to our company this morning. But to our__9__she came here by taxi and didn"t tell anybody about it. None of us asked her the__10__but her face clearly showed she had__11__in the exams.
This afternoon one of our workmates told us __12__had happened to the girl when she was__13__. Yesterday the chief examiner had asked her some questions, but she could answer only a __14__. For example, "Would you run over a man or a dog if you see them both in the middle of the__15__?"
"Of course I"d run over the dog, sir", Miss Lovely answered without __16__.
"I"m sorry to tell you, Miss Lovely," the examiner shook his__17__and said, "you have to take the examination again!"
"I don"t think my answers were__18__, sir," the girl said in a hurry. "I__19__ run over a man, you know!"
"I agree with your__20__, Miss Lovely," the chief examiner said with a smile. "but why not brake (刹车)?"
1. A. old B. foolish C. clever D. kind
2. A. by taxi B. by train C. on foot D. by plane
3. A. time B. money C. energy D. room
4. A. teach B. plan C. operate D. learn
5. A. find B. apply for C. look for D. make
6. A. learn B. forget C. teach D. break
7. A. take B. prepare C. explain D. pass
8. A. suggested B. described C. thought D. replied
9. A. surprise B. joy C. anger D. pleasure
10. A. name B. reason C. rule D. notice
11. A. believed B. heard C. found D. failed
12. A. why B. how C. what D. when
13. A. ill B. alone C. in D. out
14. A. few B. several C. all D. lot
15. A. room B. playground C. hospital D. road
16. A. asking B. thinking C. discussing D. advising
17. A. foot B. nose C. ears D. head
18. A. wrong B. correct C. right D. true
19. A. can B. need C. can"t D. needn"t
20. A. car B. opinion C. fact D. purpose |
答案
1---20 CABDB ADCAB DCDAD BDACB |
解析
1. C。由下文可知,此空应该填clever。Lovely认为自己很聪明,所以她很少跟别人说话。 2. A。她的住处离公司有点儿远,她每天都得坐出租车上班。3. B。每天坐出租车她当然要花很多钱。4. D。她决定买车,所以她两个月前开始学开车。 5. B。她会开车了,她在买车前得申请领取驾照。 6. A。她用了一周的时间记住了交通规则。 7. D。她很有把握自己能通过考试。 8. C。我们以为Lovely今天早晨会开着自己的新车来公司上班。 9. A。但令我们惊奇的是,她坐出租车来上班。 10. B 11. D。我们谁也没问她这其中的原因,但她的脸色清楚地表明她没有通过考试。12. C 13. D。今天下午当Lovely不在场的时候,我们的一位同事跟我们讲了她所发生的事情。14. A。主考官问Lovely几个问题,但她只能回答其中几个问题。15. D。如果你发现路中间有一个人和一条狗,你是压人还是压狗? 16. B。without thinking意为"不假思索地"。 17. D。主考官摇摇头,表示对Lovely的回答不满意。 18. A 19. C。Lovely对自己过于自信,认为自己的答案没错,急切地说:"我不能去压人吧!" 20. B。主考官同意Lovely的意见,但主考官微笑着说:"为什么不刹车呢?" |
举一反三
Some time ago, two navy officers made a journey to the deepest point on the earth. The two men went down seven miles to the__1__of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any__2__of life.
They set out early so that the ball would come to the surface in the__3__and so be easily found by the mother ship. The divers began__4__at dawn and soon afterwards the ball__5__under the surface of the water.
__6__, the temperature dropped to freezing point and the men trembled inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone__7__how they felt. At a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut__8__from the outside world. At 30,000 feet, the men were shocked by a sudden loud__9__- even the smallest hole in the ball would have__10__instant death. Luckily, it was only one of the outer windows__11__had broken.
Soon afterwards, the ball__12__the soft ocean floor, raising a big cloud of "dust" made__13__different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the __14__water. The men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them, quite__15__ by the very large water pressure. But they did not__16__to leave lights on for long, as the great__17__from them made the water boil. Quite__18__, the telephone began working again and the weak__19__ clear voices of the officers were heard on the mother ship. After a__20__of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later.
1. A. foot B. base C. bottom D. tip
2. A. marks B. signs C. signals D. messages
3. A. evening B. night C. secret D. daytime
4. A. diving B. rising C. traveling D. preparations
5. A. disappeared B. floated C. threw D. flew
6. A. In time B. On time C. At times D. At one time
7. A. guiding B. realizing C. describing D. imagining
8. A. down B. over C. off D. out
9. A. voice B. noise C. explosion D. shout
10. resulted B. suggested C. meant D. saved
11. A. where B. that C. which D. whose
12. A. touched B. visited C. attacked D. landed
13. A. of B. from C. up of D. into
14. A. green B. blue C. dark D. hot
15. A. unbelieved B. unchanged C. uncovered D. untroubled
16. A. use B. need C. dare D. think
17. A. light B. heat C. pressure D. sound
18. A. unexpected B. uncovered C. unknown D. uncontrolled
19. A. or B. and C. but D. either
20. A. living B. stay C. rest D. break |
Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact 1 she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 2 a driving offence (犯规，犯法).
Then one day she nearly 3 her record. A police car 4 her, and the policemen in it saw her 5 a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed 6 that she would be punished.
7 Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was 8 old to drive a car, and that the 9 why she had not stopped at the red 10 was most probably that her eyes had become weak 11 old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished what he was 12, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was 13 and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 14 a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.
When she had 15 done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed 16 the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your 17. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”
The judge took the 18 and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was 19, and her record 20 unbroken.
1. A. which B. when C. that D. this
2. A. about B. on C. to D. for
3. A. kept B. won C. missed D. lost
4. A. watched B. after C. followed D. ran after
5. A. pass B. go C. run D. rush
6. A. sure B. indeed C. certain D. perhaps
7. A. Before B. While C. Until D. When
8. A. so B. very C. too D. quite
9. A. cause B. reason C. matter D. trouble
10. A. light B. lamp C. sign D. one
11. A. with B. because C. for D. of
12. A. speaking B. saying C. talking D. telling
13. A. holding B. getting C. carrying D. bringing
14. A. took B. brought C. picked D. chose
15. A. almost B. hardly C. successfully D. successful
16. A. both B. all C. neither D. either
17. A. time B. turn C. chance D. job
18. A. thread B. glasses C. needles D. needle
19. A. dismissed B. passed C. settled D. studied
20. A. was B. kept C. seemed D. remained |
You"ve been away from us for one year; you told us a lie which I came to know not long ago.
On this special day for teachers across the country, I can _1_keep myself from telling your white lie to those who would lend me an ear.
Do you still remember the happy _2_about six years ago? We fixed our eyes upon you at your _3_.You, a beautiful young lady, _4_ us that you would live in our village.
Soon after, we began to find you were part of your students and their simple honest parents. The villagers found their children _5_more time on their books _6_ after doing their homework and housework. Yet they still _7_ that one day you might leave. You _8_a smile all the time, which reduced to some degree their_9_ of your leaving. You went all out in the _10_ of your students, helping them not only in their studies but also in their tuition(学费).You often emphasized to us the _11_ of one"s life, so that must have been what you were _12_ in those five years!
One cold morning when class began, you entered the room _13_ you had been crying _14_.In your class, we _15_ but looked away from your eyes. You _16_for some time as if you were _17_to find this right word…you said you would go away and would never be back to teach because your boyfriend wanted you more…
On the following morning, we _18_ you the very best and the villagers gave you their _19_The train took you away and your broken _20_The other day I happened to hear my parents chatting that you had lung cancer and left the world soon after you waved goodbye.
1. A. forever B. seldom C. hardly D. soon
2. A. scene B. condition C. sign D. sight
3. A. report B. arrival C. explanation D. speech
4. A. promised B. answered C. permitted D. agreed
5. A. shared B. spent C. paid D. devoted
6. A. even B. ever C. soon D. still
7. A. considered B. feared C. supposed D. doubted
8. A. wore B. pretended C. gained D. presented
9. A. pale B. trouble C. question D. fear
10. A. teaching B. middle C. course D. field
11. A. way B. wealth C. value D. cost
12. A. after B. for C. with D. against
13. A. as if B. because C. even though D. before
14. A. happily B. bitterly C. anxiously D. angrily
15. A .listened B .talked C. discussed D. studied
16. A. explained B. stopped C. talked D .spoke
17. A. thinking B. worrying C. crying D. trying
18. A. hoped B expected C. wished D. brought
19. A. thanks B. satisfactions C. expressions D. rewards
20. A. boy B. class C. heart D. memory |
After lunch, without permission from parents, the two boys set off to explore the part of the beach which lay beyond the headland(陆岬，伸出海面的尖形高地).They had persuaded their young sister to _1_, saying that the long walk would be too _2_for her. Once they had got in the head land, the beach reached away endlessly before them. It was like _3_a new world. There were damp, dark caves to _4_,there were many_5_ among the rocks, full of sea creatures(生物);and, here and there along the beach were those _6_ objects, washed up and _7_ by the tide.
The afternoon passed _8_The sun was already _9_when the boys reluctantly(恋恋不舍地) _10_ to make their _11_ homewards. But long before they reached the headland, they could see that the tide had come in so sudden that they were now _12_from either end of the beach. Their only chance of _13_ was to find a way up the cliff(悬崖) nearby.
They soon find a narrow path _14_ the cliff top. But half way up their path was_15_by a large rock which they could not climb_16_The two boys had to_17_ at the top of their voices, _18_ that someone might_19_over the top of the rock, and finally came their father with two policemen. _20_of them climbed down a rope which was lowered over the rock. The boys were then pulled to safety, and thus saved from spending a miserable night on the cliff.
1. A. keep quiet B. stay behind C. take a rest D. join them
2. A. tiring B. exciting C. uninteresting D. impossible
3. A. discovering B. facing C. enjoying D. imagining
4. A. look up B. explore C. hide in D. search
5. A. lakes B. rivers C. waterfalls D. pools
6. A. dirty B .light C. strange D. clean
7. A. moved B .covered C. beaten D. left
8. A. quickly B. unexpectedly C. finally D. suddenly
9. A. leaving B. dropping C. going D. setting
10. A. forgot B. decided C. succeeded D. turned
11.A. road B. way C. track D. path
12. A. cut off B. left behind C. held back D. put away
13. A. running off B. keeping clear C. getting away D. turning back
14. A. reaching B. passing C. going up D. leading to
15. A. blocked B. covered C. stopped D. filled
16. A. on B. over C. round D. through
17. A. shout B. shoot C. repeat D .renew
18. A. wanting B. guessing C. believing D. hoping
19. A .turn B. appear C. hide D. climb
20. A. Any B. None C. One D. First |
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call __21__and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did __22__the water. Any kind of __23__ride seemed to give him pleasure. __24__he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being __25__the water, moving through it, __26__it all around me. I was not a strong __27__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __28__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __29__those summer days with my father, who __30__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __31__person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __32__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __33__anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __34__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _35__. But my father always __36__and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s __37__.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __38__ an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood,; the rest is __39__.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but __40__, in that childhood, look at us.
21．A. desire B. joy C. anger D. worry
22．A. avoid B. refuse C. praise D. love
23．A. boat B. bus C. train D. bike
24．A. But B. Then C. And D. Still
25．A. on B. off C. by D. in
26．A. having B. leaving C. making D. getting
27．A. swimmer B. rider C. walker D. runner
28．A. hopes B. faiths C. rights D. fears
29．A. spending B. saving C. wasting D. ruining
30．A. should B. would C. had to D. ought to
31．A. next B. only C. other D. last
32．A. away from B. out of C. by D. inside
33．A. put up B. break down C. play with D. work out
34．A. the moment B. the first time C. while D. before
35. A. fishing net B. office things C. wooden chair D. lab equipment
36. A. stood up B. set out C. showed up D. turned out
37. A. fine B. strange C. terrible D. funny
38. A. the student B. the assistant C. myself D. himself
39. A. memory B. wealth C. experience D. practice
40. A. which B. who C. what D. whose |
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