Question

The   16   picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his  17   , who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink．Apparently  18  of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the  19  on the table．His two guests heard a chest of drawers opening and a rustling （颯颯響聲）．

       They  20  sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window．The father was just about to take his cup when the  21  came, right there in the living-room．Something was hopelessly broken．

       It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor．The girl looked  22  her shoulder at once, startled （嚇一跳）,  23  ．It was  24   neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit．

       The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room．He looked at the  25  floor and blurted out, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”

       The father started to say something．Then he muttered, “Sorry, I  26  it and it fell．”

       “ It doesn’t matter,” the host said．

       Later, when they left the house, the daughter said, “ Daddy, I saw your  27  in the windowpane （窗玻璃）．You were sitting perfectly  28  ．Why did you say…．”

The father  29  , “What then would you  30  as the cause of its fall?”

       “ It fell by itself．The floor is uneven （不平）．It wasn’t steady when Mr．Li put it there．”

       “It won’t  31  , girl．It sounds more  32   when I say I knocked it down．There are things people accept less the more you  33   them．The truer your story is, the less true it sounds．”

The daughter was  34  in silence for a while．Then she said, “ Can you  35   it only this way?”

       “Only this way,” the father said．

16．A．owner         B．host             C．guest            D．master

17．A．friends         B．neighbours         C．children           D．guests

18．A．knowing       B．remembering             C．hearing           D．thinking

19．A．thermos       B．cup               C．lid              D．tea

20．A．enjoyed       B．remained         C．imagined         D．hated

21．A．stranger        B．host             C．crash            D．noise

22．A．a(chǎn)round         B．a(chǎn)t               C．behind           D．over

23．A．staring        B．watching         C．shouting           D．crying

24．A．helpless       B．exciting          C．strange           D．terrible

25．A．broken        B．steaming         C．dirty             D．flooded

26．A．touched       B．used              C．hit              D．moved

27．A．face           B．shadow          C．reflection                D．a(chǎn)ction

28．A．calm          B．still             C．silent            D．straight

29．A．shouted        B．whispered        C．laughed           D．repeated

30．A．tell                 B．make            C．a(chǎn)ccept           D．give

31．A．do             B．suit               C．go              D．fit

32．A．comfortable    B．friendly          C．a(chǎn)cceptable        D．a(chǎn)greeable

33．A．defend        B．support          C．discuss            D．a(chǎn)rgue

34．A．kept          B．shut             C．worried            D．lost

35．A．do             B．explain            C．make              D．manage

Answer 1

16-35 BDDAB CDACB ACBCD ACADB

解析:

16．B。與37小題構(gòu)成對應(yīng)關(guān)系，相對于“客人”的“主人”應(yīng)用host；master作“主人”講時，強調(diào)具有“控制別人的能力”。

17．D。

18．D。 think of“想到某事”。know of知道某事的有關(guān)情況；remember“記起”是及物動詞，其后不須接of，故不選。

19．A。聯(lián)系上文，主人拿起熱水瓶，故離開的時候是把熱水瓶放在桌上，而不是“茶杯”或“蓋子”或“茶”。

20．B。主人離開后，客人“仍然”坐在那里。enjoy表“喜歡做某事”，imagine“想象”，hate “憎惡”都與題意不符。

21．C。父親正要端杯子喝茶，這時候傳來“破裂聲”，有東西打破了，crash即“爆裂聲”，“撞擊聲”，noise指嗓音；此句并不是指某人來了，故不能選A或B

22．D。look over one’s shoulder指“某人轉(zhuǎn)頭看”。

23．A。女孩轉(zhuǎn)頭看，盯著破裂的熱水瓶，watch指下意識的觀察，不合題意。

24．C。從后句中可以看出，他們并沒有碰開水瓶，而開水瓶破了，故是“奇怪的事”。

25．B。破的是熱水瓶，因此應(yīng)該是“冒蒸氣的地板”。

26．A。父親解釋是因為自己“碰了”熱水瓶所以它破了。因此用touch。

27．C。reflection指鏡子中或靜水中的“映像”，從前文中我們可以知道女孩在窗前看花，因而是從玻璃中看到了她父親的“映像”，而不是“影子”。

28．B。坐著不動用still。

29．C。父親和女兒對這一事件發(fā)生原因的不同看法，父親從成人的觀點出發(fā)，覺得自己承擔(dān)責(zé)任更好，女兒認(rèn)為不應(yīng)說謊，父親覺得女兒天真，所以“笑著說”即laughed。

30．D。

31．A。do與 will連用常表“合適的”“有用的”“行”。

32．C。指“可以接受的”。

33．A。父親向女兒解釋原因。

34．D。女兒“陷入了沉默”be lost in silence。

35．B。“只能這樣解釋嗎？”