Louise was 72 years old and she lived by herself. The first thing she noticed when she came
downstairs that Sunday morning was that her 1 window was open. In fact, it was so wide open that
she had 2 closing it. Then she realized that things were not in their proper 3 . Finally, when she
found her empty 4 on the kitchen table, she realized the awful 5 . At first, she didn’t know what to
do. Then she decided to 6 her son, Derek.
Derek’s wife Sybil answered the phone, "It’s your mother," she 7 him, coldly. Louise told Derek
about the open window, about things being in the wrong places and about the 8 missing from her purse.
"All right," said Derek, "Don’t 9 anything. I’ll be 10 in half an hour."
Louise 11 and made herself a pot of tea and some toast. Then she went from room to room
wondering 12 anything else was missing.
When Derek arrived, he was content to 13 her looking so calm. "Have you rung the 14 ?" he
asked. "No? Then I’ll do that straight away." So he rang the police.
As it was Sunday, 15 the only detectives were out. However, the police were polite, but vague
（含糊的）. "We’ll send 16 round as soon as possible,"they said.
Derek telephoned his wife. "I’m not sure when I’ll be home, love,"he told her. "I’ve got to 17 for
the police." While Derek and his mother waited, Derek 18 the catches（挂钩）on the windows and
locks on the doors. All of them were old and some of the catches hardly 19 at all. Derek felt 20 .
His mother was an old woman, after all. "I’ll have to change all these," he told her. |
( )1. A. kitchen
( )2. A. strength
( )3. A. positions
( )4. A. purse
( )5. A. mistake
( )6. A. visit
( )7. A. invited
( )8. A. money
( )9. A. say
( )10. A. round
( )11. A. sighed
( )12. A. how
( )13. A. realize
( )14. A. hospital
( )15. A. generally
( )16. A. someone
( )17. A. hope
( )18. A. tested
( )19. A. locked
( )20. A. excited | B. bedroom
B. trouble
B. situations
B. vase
B. message
B. ask
B. informed
B. coin
B. move
B. here
B. relaxed
B. why
B. find
B. neighbor
B. luckily
B. anyone
B. ask
B. repaired
B. worked
B. silly | C. washroom
C. reason
C. directions
C. pot
C. news
C. ring
C. stated
C. note
C. touch
C. off
C. whispered
C. if
C. know
C. police
C. considerably
C. everyone
C. wait
C. fixed
C. helped
C. worried | D. bathroom
D. puzzle
D. places
D. envelope
D. truth
D. punish
D. scolded
D. bill
D. prepare
D. away
D. hurried
D. where
D. sense
D. friend
D. unfortunately
D. none
D. call
D. examined
D. opened
D. guilty | | 阅读理解。 | There’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn’t stand it;
now I’m used to it.
I don’t know his name. I know he’s average in appearance, wears a gray suit, and has a common
face. One hot morning, when I was sitting on a tree-shaded bench in Palermo Park, reading the paper,
suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same man who now, as I’m writing, keeps
striking me with an umbrella.
On that occasion I turned around filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was
crazy. He didn’t even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman. Calmly, cool as a
cucumber, he stuck with his task. After a few moments of hesitation, and seeing that he was not about to
change his attitude, I stood up and hit him on the nose. The man fell down. But he immediately got back
on his feet, obviously with great effort, and without a word again began hitting me on the head with the
umbrella. His nose was bleeding and, at that moment, I felt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him
so hard. After all, the man wasn’t exactly hitting me; he was merely tapping me lightly with his umbrella,
not causing any pain at all. Of course, those taps were extremely bothersome. As we all know, when a
fly lands on your forehead, you don’t feel any pain; what you feel is annoyance. Well then, that umbrella
was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time.
Convinced that I was dealing with a madman, I tried to escape. But the man followed me, wordlessly
continuing to hit me. So I began to run（I should point out that not many people run as fast as I do）.
He took off after me, trying to land a blow. The man was out of breath so that I thought, if I continued to
force him to run at that speed, he would drop dead right then and there. | | 1. When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella, the author _________. | A. became angry
B. called the police
C. turned around and escaped
D. turned around and fought back | | 2. The author would most probably agree that the man was_______. | A. deaf
B. blind
C. dead
D. mad | | 3. The author felt sorry for the man because _______. | A. the man formed a bad habit of beating others
B. he hit the man so hard that his nose bled
C. the man couldn’t catch up with him
D. there was a fly on the man’s head | | 4. It can be learned from the passage that the man _______. | A. shouted loudly while hitting the author
B. wanted to tell the author something
C. ran after the author breathlessly
D. acted as if he were a fly | 完形填空。
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以
填入空白处的最佳选项，。 | One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter.
For several weeks she had been 1 me to play chess (棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she
eagerly 2 . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could 3 my
moves, because she 4 to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I 5 she had strict
sleeping habits, 6 I thought she ought to be able to 7 some of this strictness. I said to her, " 8 ,
you can stay up late for once. We’re having 9 ." We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which
time she looked 10 . Finally she said, "Please, Daddy, do it quickly." "No," I replied. " If you’re going
to play it 11 , you’re going to play it slowly." And so we 12 for another ten minutes, until 13 my
daughter burst into tears, and 14 that she was beaten.
Clearly I had made 15 . I had started the evening wanting to have a 16 time with my daughter but
had 17 my desire to win to become more 18 than my relationship with my daughter. When I
was a child, my desire to win 19 me well. As a parent, I 20 that it got in my way. So I had to
change. | ( )1. A. guiding
( )2. A. allowed
( )3. A. change
( )4. A. agreed
( )5. A. knew
( )6. A. so
( )7. A. put up
( )8. A. As usual
( )9. A. patience
( )10. A. excited
( )11. A. well
( )12. A. discussed
( )13. A. nervously
( )14. A. promised
( )15. A. a mistake
( )16. A. free
( )17. A. managed
( )18. A. important
( )19. A. offered
( )20. A. realized | B. asking
B. expected
B. repeat
B. needed
B. learned
B. for
B. take up
B. Go ahead
B. luck
B. proud
B. again
B. continued
B. immediately
B. admitted
B. a decision
B. different
B. recognized
B. attractive
B. served
B. apologized | C. training
C. replied
C. hurry
C. begged
C. guessed
C. but
C. pick up
C. By the way
C. fun
C. anxious
C. fairly
C. counted
C. strangely
C. wondered
C. an attempt
C. full
C. allowed
C. practical
C. controlled
C. imagined | D. advising
D. accepted
D. pass
D. hated
D. heard
D. or
D. give up
D. Come on
D. success
D. angry
D. regularly
D. argued
D. suddenly
D. discovered
D. an effort
D. happy
D. reduced
D. interesting
D. taught
D. explained | A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maliyuwa, a nearby
village. They lived with the man"s big family-his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family
kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit
and sugar.
Three months later the woman went back to her parents" home, having quarrelled with her husband.
Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart-broken. One morning after
several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman"s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it.
The young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband"s home. | | 1. The writer wrote the story in order to _______. | A. show that elephants are very clever
B. tell how a woman trained a wild animal
C. show that women care more for animals than men do
D. tell how an animal reunited a husband and wife | | 2. The woman left her new home _______. | A. to visit her own parents in Maliyuwa
B. to see if the elephant would follow her
C. because she was angry with her husband
D. because she was tired of the large family | | 3. After the young woman left her husband"s home, the elephant _______. | A. returned to the forest
B. was sad because it missed her
C. went to look for a new home
D. was sick because nobody fed it | | 4. The young wife went back to her husband because _______. | A. she knew he had sent the animal to her
B. the elephant had come to look for her
C. her parents persuaded her to
D. she missed her new home | | 阅读理解。 | Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped (绊倒)and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a
small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered (散落的)articles. Since
they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked Mark discovered
the boy"s name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history, and that he was having lots of
trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
They arrived at Bill"s home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch some television.
The afternoon passed pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small talk, then Mark went home.
They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, then both graduated
from the junior high school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long awaited senior year came and three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill reminded(提醒) him of the day years ago when they had first met. "Did you ever wonder why I
was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see. I had stored away some of my
mother"s sleeping pills and I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time together talking
and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that
might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more, you
saved my life." | | 1. Mark helped Bill _______ on his way home. | A. read all his books
B. play baseball in a game
C. buy two sweaters and a glove
D. pick up the scattered articles | | 2. They watched TV, and drank Coke _______. | A. at Bill"s home
B. at Mark"s home
C. at school
D. at the college | | 3. Bill wanted to kill himself by _______. | A. carrying many things home
B. taking sleeping pills
C. cleaning his locker
D. talking and laughing | | 4. We learn from the passage that _______. | A. Mark saved Bill"s life
B. Bill"s mother asked him to die
C. Bill"s girlfriend carried books for him
D. Mark wanted to commit suicide, too | 最新试题
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