Question

  Nicollette Morganti’s friends can’t understand why she joined a dating agency(婚姻介紹所).

  She has a good job ___36_____ a personal assistant with a television news agency, her own house, and a full social life. But she, a 29-year-old woman, who has a degree in English Literature, is so ___37____with British ___38____that she joined the English Rose dating agency to get in touch with single American males.

  “English men are usually materialistic and have ___39___ imagination,” she says.

  “I have ___40___ years being bored by men who never do anything ___41___. ”

  “I’m almost 30 now and I would really love to ___42___ a husband and have __43___. I’d like to live in London for six months of the year and in the State for ___44___ six months. ”

  In her search for the perfect man, Nicolette once ___45___ an advertisement in a magazine for ___46___ people and had 400 replies.

  But she says: “I only met one or two of them. ___47___of the others sounded very ___48___. ”

  Nicolette joined English Rose about 18 months ___49___ and has met 5 men ___50___ then.

  She says: “ I ___51__ that American men are more romantic and thoughtful than British men. I rang ___52___ in the States, and afterwards he sent me 200 dollars to ___53___the call. ”

  “ I’ve met five so far but I’m looking for someone very ___54___. I’d like to find a caring, well educated, non-smoking, animal-lover with a professional job and a ___55___ of adventure. ”

36. A. like	B. being	C. as	D. with
37. A. men	B. bored	C. pleased	D. angry
38. A. tried	B. games	C. music	D. master
39. A. some	B. such	C. a little	D. no
40. A. passed	B. spent	C. entered	D. wasted
41. A. exciting	B. moving	C. interesting	D. living
42. A. marry to	B. accept	C. receive	D. find
43. A. friends	B. work	C. a home	D. children
44. A. another	B. some	C. the other	D. other
45. A. wrote	B. put	C. gave	D. posted
46. A. single	B. married	C. only	D. lonely
47. A. Most	B. Few	C. All	D. Some
48. A. worrying	B. encouraging	C. boring	D. surprising
49. A. before	B. later	C. more	D. ago
50. A. from	B. since	C. after	D. until
51. A. expect	B. suppose	C. know	D. feel
52. A. one	B. it	C. them	D. him
53. A. pay to	B. pay off	C. pay for	D. pay back
54. A. ordinary	B. handsome	C. special	D. lovely
55. A. feeling	B. sense	C. way	D. kind

Answer 1

36. C這里as的意思是“作為”。

37. B be bored with: 對(duì)……感到厭倦。

38. A。從下文的American males可以得出本題的答案。tried作British的后置定語。

39. D。她認(rèn)為英國男人注重物質(zhì)利益，且沒有想象力。

40. B。spend：“度過”。

41. A。由于缺乏想象力，當(dāng)然就做不出令人激動(dòng)，興奮的事。

42. D。

43. C。找丈夫的目的是建立一個(gè)家庭。

44. C。一年12個(gè)月，她在英國待半年，在美國待另半年。

45. B。put an advertisement in a magazine：在雜志上做廣告。

46. A。一個(gè)專為獨(dú)身的人辦的雜志。

47. A。她只約見了其中一兩個(gè)人，是因?yàn)樗�認(rèn)為其他的人都很無聊。

48. C。

49. D。從上下文的時(shí)態(tài)可以選出答案。

50. B。時(shí)態(tài)是完成時(shí)，所以選B。

51. D。

52. A。one是泛指一個(gè)美國男人，不是特指。

53. C。pay for the call是“付話費(fèi)”的意思。

54. C。從下文她認(rèn)為的理想的丈夫可以看出，她的丈夫非等閑之輩，所以答案是C。

55. B。