Question

  Tim Becker and his neighbours are doing some?thing to make their neighbourhood a trouble-free area.

  When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping,he doesn't 4      drive to a store and back home. He always looks 5        up and down the streets of his neighbourhood. He looks for anything 6        such as strange cars,loud noises,7       windows,or people gathering on street corners.

  Tim 8        to a neighbourhood watch group in Stoneville,Indiana <, USA. The neighbourhood watch group 9        on the third Wednesday of every month. That's 10        Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss community 11      . Members of the neighbourhood watch group want to help the police 12        their streets and families safe.

  Tina Stedman,president of 13        neighbourhood watch group,agrees with Tim. "People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not

14 them. Well,it's never happened to me," she said, "but I don't think anyone has the 15        to steal from other people or to make them feel 16        sitting in their own homes.” Alex,a member of the group,said that all the neighbours 17        out for one another. " We 18     each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighbour?hood at night and on weekends. Usually a 19      of four or five of us go out together. If something doesn't look right,then we call the 20      .For example,if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for 21        ,or someone destroying property (財產(chǎn)) ， we report to the police." Alex feels the neighbourhood watch group 22      a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees "Police are good people,but they can't do 23     ."

4. A. yet   B. still   C. just   D. rather

5. A. carefully   B. clearly   C. nervously   D. coldly

6. A. familiar   B. unusual

   C. expensive   D. interesting

7. A. curtained   B. open   C. old   D. broken

8. A. attends   B. belongs   C. goes   D. turns

9. A. meets   B. quarrels   C. sings   D. searches

10. A. where   B. why   C. when   D. how

11. A. politics   B. wealth   C. health   D. safety

12. A. keep   B. hold

   C. let   D. protect

13. A. its   B. his   C. their   D. your

14. A. round   B. on   C. about   D. to

15. A. right   B. chance   C. courage   D. mind

16. A. unlucky   B. unsafe

   C. disappointed   D. discouraged

17. A. set   B. let   C. hold   D. look

18. A. care   B. enter   C. watch   D. manage

19. A. group   B. set

   C. number   D. crowd

20. A. judges   B. police   C. firemen   D. doctors

21. A. work   B. burden   C. service   D. trouble

22. A. produce   B. find   C. get   D. help

23. A. anything   B. everything   C. harm   D. wrong

Answer 1

4. C Trni Becker和他的鄰居正在盡力使他們的鄰里免受煩擾。因此每當Tim Becker開車出門購物時，他不僅僅只是 (just) 開車去開車回，而且還有別的事情要做。

5. A他總是在鄰里的街道上上下下仔細地 (carefully) 查看。carefully小心地，謹慎地；clearly明顯地，無疑地; nervously神經(jīng)緊張地，不安地；coldly冷淡地。

6. B查看是否有任何異常的 (unusual) 事情。familiar熟悉的，常見的；unusual不平常的，與眾不同的，異常的； expensive昂貴的;interesting有趣的。

7. D與前面strange cars,loud noises構(gòu)成并歹i]意義的不應(yīng)是開著的 (open) 、舊的 (old) 、掛著窗簾的 (curtained) 窗

戶.Ifll—是打碎的 (broken) 窗戶。

8. B Tim Becker是鄰里監(jiān)護隊的一員。

9. A鄰里監(jiān)護隊每月第一個周-：碰頭開會 (meet) ,而不是爭吵 (quarrel) ,唱歌 (sing) 和調(diào)査 (sea rch) 。

10. C根據(jù)前文的on the third Wednesday of every month 可以得出答案。

11. D從前文Tim Becker的行為可以看出、他們聚集在一起研討社區(qū)的安全(safety) 問題，而非政治(politics) 、健康(health) 和財富(wealth) 問題。

12. A幫助警察保持 (keep) 他們的街道和家安全。keep sb-+ "力.使某人保持某一狀態(tài)；hold保存，保留;let允許，讓;protect保護，保衛(wèi)。后三者均不用于此結(jié)構(gòu)。

13. C他們的 (their) 鄰里監(jiān)護隊的隊長。

14. D sth happen to sb為固定結(jié)構(gòu)，but not表示并列，后跟相同搭配。

15. A任何人都可能有機會 (chance) 、勇氣 (courage) 和心思 (mind) ,但卻沒有權(quán)利 (right) 去偷別人的東西或使別人感到不安全。

16. B沒有權(quán)利使別人坐在自己家里而感到不安全。

17. D所有的鄰居都相互注意 (look out) ,提髙警惕。set out出發(fā)，開始，擺出，陳列；let out放寬(衣服) ；出租 (車、馬等) ;hold out給予，堅持，忍耐，伸出；look out注意，留神。

18. C我們看護 (watch) 每個人的家。前文已有所暗示，與hi義keep watch on—致。t'are注意，照料，關(guān)心；enter 進人;watch注視，注意，看守，守護，監(jiān)視；manage管理，控制。

19. A前文已有所暗示。四五個人形成一組/隊 (group) , group"組，團，群"，通常指人組成的群體，成員可多可少；set"套，副，批"，通常指成套組裝的東西；number 數(shù)，數(shù)字;crowd"人群，群眾，一堆(東西) "，通常指擁擠的人群。

20. B如果看到有什么事情不對勁，就叫警察 （police） 。前文的"…h(huán)elp the police "- their streets and families safe." 和后文"…we report to the police.”已經(jīng)有所暗示。

21. D如果發(fā)現(xiàn)一群十幾歲的孩子似乎想找麻煩 (tromble) 。

22. D在減少犯罪方面，鄰里監(jiān)護隊起到了輔助 (help) 的作用：

23. B警察是好人，但他們不可能做每件事情(every-thing;) 。anything與not連用表示全部否定；everything 與not連用表示部分否定。