Question

【題目】Choose the best answer and complete the passage （選擇最恰當?shù)倪x項完成短文）

Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a meeting place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was _______ that the fires of war would destroy the books, which are more precious to her than mountains of gold. The books are in every language— new books, ancient books, _______ a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old. She had asked the government for permission to move the books to a safe place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands, Secretly, she brought books home every night, _______ her car late after work. Her friends came to help her when the war _______. Anis who owned a restaurant agreed to hide some books. All though the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, passed them over the sever-foot wall and hid them in the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war _______. Then nine days later, a fire burned the library to the ground.

One day, the bombing stopped and the soldiers left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be moved again while the city was quiet. So she hired a truck to bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs（郊區(qū)）. Now Alia waited for the war to end and _______ peace and a new library.

【1】A.worriedB.angryC.doubtfulD.curious

【2】A.thenB.stillC.evenD.rather

【3】A.startingB.parkingC.testingD.filling

【4】A.took offB.broke outC.went offD.broke up

【5】A.openedB.stoppedC.continuedD.ended

【6】A.dreamed ofB.believed inC.cared aboutD.looked for

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【4】B

【5】C

【6】A

【解析】

本文講述了伊拉克的圖書管理員——Alia Baker，在戰(zhàn)爭前和戰(zhàn)爭后如何保護那些珍貴的圖書。

【1】句意：Alia很擔心戰(zhàn)火會將書毀滅。

worried 擔心；angry 生氣；doubtful 懷疑的；curious 好奇的。根據(jù)前文“When the war was near”和后文“which are more precious to her than mountains of gold”，可知，這些書對Alia來說非常重要，當戰(zhàn)爭臨近的時候，她擔心戰(zhàn)火會毀壞了書。故選A。

【2】句意：這些書籍每種語言版本都有，新書，古書，甚至是關(guān)于伊拉克七百年歷史的書。

then 然后，still 仍然，even 甚至，rather 寧可。根據(jù)前文“The books are in every language—new books, ancient books”和后文“a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old”，可知，前面概括了這里有各種語言版本的書，后面介紹了有哪些品種，空格前后的句子表示遞進的關(guān)系，所以用even更符合語境。故選C。

【3】句意：Alia在下班后，把書裝滿她的車，秘密地搬回家。

starting 開始；parking 停車；testing 測試；filling 裝滿。根據(jù)前文“Secretly, she brought books home every night”，可推測，每天她把她的車裝滿書載回家，所以是用動詞fill。故選D。

【4】句意：當戰(zhàn)爭爆發(fā)的時候，她的朋友都來幫助她。

took off 脫掉；broke out 爆發(fā)；went off 爆炸；broke up 分散。根據(jù)前文“When the war was near…”，當戰(zhàn)爭臨近的時候，Alia開始自己晚上下班后搬書回家，“Her friends came to help her”她的朋友都趕過來幫她搬運，可推測是戰(zhàn)爭爆發(fā)了，用固定詞組break out，本句中用的是一般過去時的結(jié)構(gòu)，所以break out的一般過去時是broke out。故選B。

【5】句意：隨著戰(zhàn)爭的繼續(xù)，這些書一直被藏起來。

opened 打開；stopped 停止；continued 繼續(xù)；ended 結(jié)束。根據(jù)上文“when the war broke out”和下文“But the war was not over yet”，可知，戰(zhàn)爭還在持續(xù)。句子用的一般過去時，所以空格處的動詞要用過去時。故選C。

【6】句意：現(xiàn)在Alia等著戰(zhàn)爭結(jié)束夢想著和平和一個新的圖書館。

dreamed of 夢想；believed in 相信；cared about 關(guān)心；looked for尋找。根據(jù)空格處后peace，表示和平，結(jié)合語意，可知要表達夢想著和平，句子用的是一般過去時，所以空格處的動詞短語也要用一般過去時。故選A。