Question

It was 1958. I was eighteen and was working as a nurse in a rural town west of Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five days ____ from duty after working overtime for some time. ___， the only train that day back to my hometown, over 270 km away, had already ___. I thought I'd thumb a lift.

I waited by the side of the ____ for three hours but no one stopped for me. Finally, a man walked over and ____ himself as Gordon. He said that ____ he couldn't give me a lift, I could come to his house, which was across the road, for lunch. He'd been watching me and thought I must be ____ after standing for hours. I hesitated but he assured me I was ____， and he also offered to help me find a ____ home afterwards.

When we arrived at Gordon's ____， he made us sandwiches. After lunch, he stopped a car, which took me to my hometown.

Then I got married, but my husband didn't believe in giving ____ a ride. This made me feel ____ when we'd pass people waiting on the roadside, as I could ____ offer them the lift they hoped for.

Twenty?five years later, in 1983, I was driving alone to a nearby town, when I ____ an elderly man with a small boy, standing in the glaring heat, trying to ____ a ride. I saw my chance to repay someone for the ____ I'd been given decades earlier. I pulled over and picked the ____ up. I made them comfortable on the back seat and ____ some water and sweets.

After a few minutes of small talk, the man said to me，“You haven't changed a bit, ____ your red hair is still the same.” I couldn't ____ where I'd met him. He then told me he was Gordon.

1.A.off B．away

C．out B．up

2.A.Surprisingly B．Hopefully

C．Unfortunately D．Strangely

3.A.started B．left

C．delayed D．arrived

4.A.town B．station

C．railway D．highway

5.A.considered B．described

C．introduced D．named

6.A.when B．once

C．although D．unless

7.A.tired B．thirsty

C．angry D．hungry

8.A.careful B．safe

C．young D．suspicious

9.A.lift B．way

C．train D．bicycle

10.A.kitchen B．shop

C．house D．garage

11.A.villagers B．strangers

C．relatives D．neighbours

12.A.bad B．nervous

C．excited D．anxious

13.A.ever B．still

C．never D．sometimes

14.A.recognized B．noticed

C．knew D．observed

15.A.offer B．enjoy

C．demand D．get

16.A.support B．debt

C．effort D．favour

17.A.pair B．couple

C．group D．team

18.A.exchanged B．shared

C．drank D．brought

19.A.even B．only

C．thus D．just

20.A.remind B．repeat

C．recommend D．recall

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.D

5.C

6.C

7.D

8.B

9.A

10.C

11.B

12.A

13.C

14.B

15.D

16.D

17.A

18.B

19.A

20.D

【解析】文章大意：本文是一篇記敘文。一位叫Gordon的陌生人對作者進行了幫助，帶作者去家里吃飯，并幫助作者搭便車。后來，作者一直想幫助別人，特別是等待搭便車的人，但是由于作者的丈夫?qū)δ吧�人不信任，一直未能實現(xiàn)。后來，作者在一次單獨駕車出行時，幫助了一位老人和孩子搭便車，而那位老人竟然就是曾經(jīng)幫助作者的Gordon。

1.A 考察副詞辨析。根據(jù)下文的after working overtime for some time可知此處表示休假5天。在4各選項中，off有休假的意思。故A正確。

2.2】C 考察副詞辨析。根據(jù)下文the only train that day…I thought I’d…可知唯一可以返鄉(xiāng)的火車已經(jīng)離開，所以作者感覺自己很不幸運。故C項正確。

3.3】B 考察動詞辨析。根據(jù)下文I thought I’d thumb a lift可知作者認為自己只能搭便車了。由此可以推理唯一的火車已經(jīng)離開了。故B正確。

4.4】D 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)語境可知，作者當時在路邊等著搭便車，highway指公路，大路，與文意相符。故D正確。

5.5】答案：C　考查動詞辨析。一位路過的男士介紹自己是Gordon。introduce oneself as可作為短語使用，是“自稱”之意。由此可知，C項符合語境。故答案選C。

6.6】答案：C　考查連詞辨析。根據(jù)下文“I could come to his house”可知，前后句為讓步關(guān)系。因此，although“雖然，盡管”與此相符。故答案選C。

7.7】答案：D　考查形容詞辨析。根據(jù)下文“after standing for hours”和上文“for lunch”，并結(jié)合選項可知，空格處表達的意思是“饑餓的”，因此，hungry符合文義。故答案選D。

8.8】B 考察形容詞辨析。根據(jù)下文可知Gordon請作者去他家吃午飯，因為當時作者有點猶豫，所以對方使作者相信自己是安全的。由此可知，空格處應(yīng)該使用safe，suspicious，故B正確。

9.9】A 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文第一段最后一句，I thought I’d thumb a lift,可知，此處指的是Gordon使作者相信他他也會幫助作者搭到一輛車。根據(jù)lift符合上下文語境。故A正確。

10.0】C 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文第二段第一句I could come to his hous可知作者到了Gordon的住處。故C項符合上下文。

11.1】B 考察名詞辨析。此處的語境與上文形成鮮明的對比，作者的丈夫不相信陌生人，不會讓他們搭便車。由此可知B正確。

12.2】答案：A　考查形容詞辨析。作者一心想幫助別人搭便車，但是，她的丈夫不愿意那樣做。因此，從那些在路邊上等待搭便車的人旁邊經(jīng)過時，作者心里感到難過。由此可知，bad符合文義。故答案選A。

13.3】C 考察副詞辨析。根據(jù)上下文可知，作者之所以難過，是因為她從來不幫助陌生人，讓他們搭便車。選項中只有C項表示否定的含義。故C正確。

14.4】B 考察動詞辨析。作者第一次單獨駕車時，注意到一個老人帶著一個小男孩。因此B項符合上下文含義。

15.5】D考察動詞辨析。根據(jù)上下文可知，此處指老人正在等著搭便車，get a ride是固定搭配，是搭便車的意思。故D正確。

16.6】D 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文可知，此處指作者早在幾十年前就被給予了幫助，所以作者在尋找機會來報答曾經(jīng)被給予幫助。D項幫助，恩惠；符合上下文。故D正確。

17.7】答案：A　考查名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文“an elderly man with a small boy”可知，此處指的是老人和孩子兩個人。在四個選項中，pair符合文義。故答案選A。

18.8】B 考察動詞辨析。根據(jù)語境可知，此處指的是作者和他們一起分享水和甜品。因此shared與文意相符。故B正確。

19.9】答案：A　考查副詞辨析。根據(jù)上下文可知，空格處表示的是程度，前后兩句為遞進關(guān)系，even意為“甚至”，與此相符。故答案選A。

20.20】答案：D　考查動詞辨析。根據(jù)語境可知，作者一時想不起在哪里見過他。remind意為“提醒”；repeat意為“重復”；recommend意為“推薦，建議，勸告”；recall意為“回想起，記起”。根據(jù)語境可知，答案選D。