A boy walked along Carver Street, singing a sad song. He walked with his head down. Once he looked up and noticed the sign across the empty street, painted on the side of an old house. On the sign a big woman with yellow hair and a five-mile smile held out a big bottle. “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-Cola,” the sign said.
“Boy!” the silence was cut by a sudden cry. He turned around quickly to see who had called.
An old woman was standing at her door.
“You boy! Come here this minute!”
Slowly the boy ___1___ onto the cold flat stones leading to the old woman’s house. When he arrived at her house, she ___2___ out her hand and wrapped(纏住) her ___3___ old fingers around his arm.
“Help me inside, boy”, she said, “Help me ___4___ to my bed. What’s your name?”
“Joseph,” he said.
The old woman on the bed tried to ___5___ up, raising herself on her elbow(肘). Water ___6___ from her eyes and mouth. The sight of her made Joseph feel ___7___.
“I am dying, Joseph. You can see that, can’t you? I want you to write a ___8___ for me. There’s paper and pencil on the table there.”
Joseph looked down at the ___9___, and then looked out the window. He saw the sign again: “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-cola.”
“I want my silver pin to ___10___ to my daughter.”
Joseph bent his small body over the table and ___11___ the pencil slowly across the paper.
“There’s my Bible(圣經(jīng)),” the old woman said. “That’s for my daughter, too. I want a ___12__ Christian burial(基督葬禮) with lots of singing. Write that down, too. That’s the last ___13__ of a poor old woman.”
The boy labored over the paper. Again he looked out the window.
“Here. Bring it here so I can ___14___ it.”
Joseph found the Bible, and ___15___the paper inside, laid it next to the bed.
“___16___ me now, boy,” she sighed. “I’m tired.”
He ran out of the house.
A cold wind blew through the ___17___ window, but the old woman on the bed ___18___ nothing. She was dead. The paper in the Bible moved back and forth in the wind. ___19___ on the paper were some childish letters. They ___20___ the words “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-cola.”
1. A. rushed    B. struggled    C. hurried       D. stepped
2. A. reached  B. let      C. pushed       D. pointed
3. A. firm       B. smooth       C. dry     D. fresh
4. A. back       B. over    C. away   D. ahead
5. A. sit   B. get      C. stand   D. wake
6. A. rolled     B. burnt  C. burst   D. ran
7. A. ill   B. sick    C. unpleasant  D. funny
8. A. letter      B. note    C. will    D. message
9. A. table      B. pen     C. paper  D. woman
10. A. send     B. go      C. belong       D. come
11. A. moved  B. drew   C. used    D. pulled
12. A. great    B. merry C. splendid     D. real
13. A. hope     B. chance       C. opinion      D. wish
14. A. sign      B. read    C. remember   D. copy
15. A. setting  B. hiding C. placing       D. laying
16. A. Hold    B. Leave  C. Excuse       D. Pardon
17. A. large    B. open   C. small  D. pretty
18. A. did       B. saw     C. felt     D. knew
19. A. Described    B. Printed       C. Recorded    D. Written
20. A. formed B. spelled       C. organized   D. repeated
 1-5DACBA 6-10DBCCB 11-15ADDAC 16-20BBCDA

本文是一篇幽默笑話，老婦人讓一小男孩為她寫遺囑，但他不太會寫字，結(jié)果小男孩把他看到的廣告牌上的字抄在紙上作為遺囑了。
1. D。根據(jù)后面的 a cold flat 來判斷是“走”上冰冷的臺階。
2. A。從本句這兩個動作來看是先伸出手，然后再用她那干枯的手指纏住他的胳膊。
3. C。因為年紀(jì)大了，又是快要死了的人，所以手是“干癟無肉的”。
4. B。根據(jù)前面的 Help me inside 的動作，后面應(yīng)該是把我扶“上”床，而不是扶回到床前。
5. A。根據(jù)下文讓小孩寫遺囑，應(yīng)該是想坐起來說遺囑的內(nèi)容，根據(jù)語境不能是站起來。
6. D。如果僅指眼淚可以選答案 A, 因為這兒既指眼淚又指口水，所以用 run 最合適。
7. B。從下文 I am dying 來看老太太病得很嚴(yán)重了，be ill 和 feel sick 是英語里的習(xí)慣用法。
8. C。根據(jù)上文的 I am dying 和下文“死在床上”可知讓小孩寫的是遺囑 will，而不是信 letter。
9. C。上文和下文都提到了“紙”。
10. B。silver pin 本是屬于老婦人的，現(xiàn)在因為她快要死了，所以留下遺囑給她女兒，go 表示去向和歸屬，不選 belong(屬于)。
11. A。從上文 Joseph bent his small body over the table 形容小孩拿鉛筆寫字，就好像在紙上“移動”(move)。
12. D。因為是葬禮，不可能是“快樂的或輝煌的”，而是“真正的”。
13. D。從上下文的語境可以得知，那是可憐的老太太最后的“愿望”，而不是“希望”。
14. A。根據(jù)常識，遺囑寫完了要“簽字”。
15. C。根據(jù)老太太的交代，找到了(圣經(jīng))，把寫有遺囑的紙“放”在里面，而不是“藏”在里面。
16. B。根據(jù)后一句 I’m tired 來看，老太太想讓小孩離開，讓她自己留在那兒，leave sb (be) 意為“別管…，讓….在那兒”。
17. B。從前面的 through 一詞可知窗戶是“開著的”。
18. C。從下文 She was dead 來判斷，她沒有知覺了。
19. D。從上文可知是紙上“寫”的遺囑，written 的邏輯主語是后面的 letters。
20. A。文章一開始就為文章的結(jié)尾埋下了伏筆，再根據(jù)文章中間敘述小孩拿著鉛筆在紙上移動來看，小孩不太會寫字，只是把廣告牌上的字母抄了下來，所以就形成了 Coca-Cola. Drink Coke-Cola。
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