Question

完形填空 (2015 •北京昌平二模) (15分)

The tail

It began as the worst summer of my life. The evening before the first day of summer vacation,my mother broke the —1 to me.

“Nancy,your father and I decided that you’re old enough now to take on certain responsibilities. You need

to look after Jackie for this summer. ”

“Not that，Mum!That's not fair. All summer with Jackie!I won’t be able to play with my friends. ”

“Life isn’t always 2 . ”

I knew she would say that. Jackie is my seven-year-old brother and has been following me like a tail ever

since he learned how to 3 I'd rather be in school than minding Jackie all day.

“You’ll still be able to play with your friends ,” she continued ,“but Jackie comes first. He is your 4 We’re a family and we all have to help out."

Jackie turned up and raised his right hand. “I promise to do whatever Nancy says. ”

When I was out 5 jumping ropes for the summer competition,he was there in front of me. When I was

riding bikes with friends,he was there，too. “Jackie，you’re not going to be in our faces all day”，I shouted at

him.

“Mum said you have to 6 me,so I have to be in your face. ”

Later on,my friends and I decided to climb the hills which Mum had warned me not to do. We were afraid that Jackie would tell Mum the 7 ，so we lied to him we would play hide and seek (捉迷藏) in the park. But

in fact,we went to the hills leaving Jackie behind. When we came back in an hour,Jackie was nowhere to find.

We checked everywhere in the park,back at home,all the corners of the street ...

“Jackie!” I cried. “You’re my only baby brother. Dear God,please let me find him. I'll play any game he wants. I'll never lie to him …”

Suddenly,we heard some sound up above a big tree. When we looked up,Jackie was there laughing at us.

“So all of you have 8 finding me，yeah? ” …

“Everything's OK，Nancy? Nothing happened?” Mum asked me when she came back from work. “No，Mum. Everything is fine. Nothing happened at all ,” Jackie shouted.

、.參 Well,the summer didn't turn out to be so 9 after all. My parents both got pay rise,my

II friends and I won the rope-jumping competition,and Td play a game with Jackie or read him a ^ story. And Jackie never told my parents that Td lost him. I found out that you 10 miss a tail

until you almost lose it.

1. A. bad news   B. good news   C. long news   D. big news

2. A. exciting   B. surprising   C. busy   D. fair

3. A. speak   B. walk   C. cry   D. eat

4. A. necessity   B. responsibility   C. confidence   D. expectation

5. A. getting   B. playing   C. practising   D. beginning

6. A. watch   B. see   C. keep   D. carry

7. A. reason   B. truth   C. fact   D. story

8. A. agreed   B. believed   C. failed   D. confused

9. A. wonderful   B. lucky   C. terrible   D. dangerous

10. A. always   B. usually   C. sometimes   D. never

Answer 1

 1. A解析:從后面“我不愿意看管Jackie”來看，這是個(gè)壞消息。

2. D解析:這是媽媽對“我”抗議的回答：生活中不會(huì)處處都是公平的。

3. B解析：自從他學(xué)會(huì)走路以來就一直跟著“我”，像個(gè)尾巴一樣甩不掉。

4. B解析：媽媽進(jìn)一步解釋:首先要照顧好Jackie ,這是你的責(zé)任。與第二段保持一致。

5. C解析:注意后面提到的compe-tition (比賽) ，所以此處用prastic-ing (訓(xùn)練) 。

6. A解析:句意:媽媽讓你看著我，所以我必須在你眼前。

watch關(guān)注，看管。

7. B解析：truth真相，指“爬山”這件事。與后面的lie (撒謊) 對比。

8. C解析：弟弟爬到了樹上，“我們”沒有找到他。

fail失敗。

9. C解析：后面提到的都是好事 (父母加薪、“我們”贏了比賽) ，所以這個(gè)暑假還不錯(cuò)。

10. D解析:作者的感悟:直到差點(diǎn)兒失去時(shí)才懂得珍惜。