Question

【題目】

A. extremely B. required C.so that D. truth E. Greek

It’s raining cats and dogs.

When it’s raining heavily, you can say “It’s raining cats and dogs.” this expression is very strange, and no one really knows it’s origin. One idea is that “cats and dogs” comes from a 【1】 phrase cata doxa. Cata doxa and“cats and dogs” sound similar. So if it is raining “cats and dogs”, it is raining【2】 hard.

Straight from the horse’s mouth

Through the years, horses have been important beasts. In order to make money, dishonest traders would lie about a horse’s age 【3】they could sell it for a higher price. But anyone who knew about the horses would open the horse’s mouth. They could tell the horse’s age from it’s teeth. So they got the【4】 straight from the horse’s mouth.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】E

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【解析】

短文大意：本文是文化類閱讀，介紹了It’s raining cats and dogs.和Straight from the horse’s mouth兩句諺語的來歷和含義。

【1】句意：一種觀點認為“cats and dogs”來源于希臘短語cata doxa。

a phrase缺少一個形容詞修飾phrase這個名詞，是希臘的短語。根據句意結構和所給單詞提示，可知選E。

【2】句意：所以如果下“cats and dogs”，意思是雨下得很大。

hard形容雨大，extremely及其地，副詞用來強調雨勢大。根據句意結構和所給單詞提示，可知選A。

【3】句意：為了賺錢，不誠實的商人會謊報馬的年齡，以便以更高的價格出售。

so that這里是目的狀語從句，說明謊報馬齡的目的。根據句意結構和所給單詞提示，可知選C。

【4】句意：所以他們直接從可靠的消息得到了真相。

定冠詞the后接名詞。so所以，表結果；根據上文They could tell the horse’s age from it’s teeth.和所給單詞提示，可知是了解到真相，故選D。