Question

1．One day a mime（啞劇演員）is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer．As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla（大猩猩），has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla．The mime accepts．
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes．He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime-the job he likes but loses．
However，with days going by，he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his．Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience，he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition（隔墻），and dangles（懸掛）from the top to the lion's cage．The lion gets angry at this．The scene is a fuel to the crowd．
At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction-Well，this continues for some time．The crowds grow larger，and the mime's pay keeps going up．
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls．The mime is terrified．He starts screaming，"Help me!"，but the lion is quick．The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says，"Shut up you fool!Do you want to get us both fired？"
21．The mime accepts the zookeeper's offer becauseA．
A．he has been out of work
B．he doesn't like being a mime
C．he likes performing at the zoo
D．he is offered a higher pay there
22．How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla？C
A．Hard and tiring．
B．Dangerous but exciting．
C．Easy and funny．
D．Boring but well-paid．
23．The mime's first contact with the lion is toD．
A．find pleasure for himself    
B．get the lion's attention
C．get his pay raised             
D．win back his audience
24．The underlined words"a fuel"in Paragraph 3 can be replaced byC．
A．frightening     
B disappointing    
C．exciting       
D．familiar．

Answer 1

分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀，作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了啞劇演員假扮猩猩挑釁獅子卻發(fā)現(xiàn)對方也是演員的故事

解答 21．A．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第一段He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla．The mime accepts可知啞劇演員接受管理員的提議因為已經(jīng)失業(yè)；故選A．
22．C．推理判斷題．歌劇第二段He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime-the job he likes but loses可知啞劇演員認為打扮成大猩猩的工作簡單有趣；故選C．
23．D．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第三段Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience，he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition（隔墻），and dangles（懸掛）from the top to the lion's cage可知啞劇演員與獅子的第一次接觸是為了贏回他的觀眾；故選D．
24．C．詞義猜測題．根據(jù)第三段The scene is a fuel to the crowd可知人群興奮起來了；意為令人興奮的；故選C．

點評 考察學生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力，做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進行比較，再做出正確的選擇．在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實，要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．