Question

【題目】 Mr. West was born in a small English town. His father had a shop there. The shopkeeper didn’t think it was ____ for his son to go to school. So he taught him how to get more money. They got much money there and then ____ to the city. Now Old West can’t manage his shop and his son, Mr. West has to do it ____ him. As he has little knowledge, Mr. West is often ____ in public and sometimes he gets into trouble. So he ____ a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room so that the visitors can see them ____ they go in. He often goes to the parties and carefully ____ what the learned（有學(xué)問的）men say. He hopes to make friends with them.

Once Mr. West was told that it was a famous writer’s birthday that day. He hurried there with his wife. He gave the writer some ____ presents and the old man thanked him. After dinner they began to talk about the literary works（文學(xué)作品）.

He could hardly answer any questions. The writer had to ask him ____ one, “What was Shakespeare?”

“It was a kind of drink, ” answered Mr. West. “But people do not like it now. ”

The writer had a smile and soon he stopped ____ . On their way home, his wife said, “You made a mistake just now. Shakespeare is a delicious cake, like the Chinese moon cake!”

【1】A.usefulB.possibleC.easyD.difficult

【2】A.wentB.gotC.ranD.moved

【3】A.withB.afterC.instead ofD.before

【4】A.helpedB.laughed atC.hurtD.beaten

【5】A.borrowedB.madeC.boughtD.wrote

【6】A.becauseB.ifC.thatD.as soon as

【7】A.listens toB.hearsC.looks atD.sees

【8】A.cheapB.expensiveC.uselessD.small

【9】A.more difficultB.the most difficultC.easyD.the easiest

【10】A.to talkB.to answerC.talkingD.answering

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】C

【4】B

【5】C

【6】D

【7】A

【8】B

【9】D

【10】C

【解析】

本文講述了Mr. West由于缺乏知識，他經(jīng)常在公共場合被嘲笑，有時還會惹上麻煩。所以他買了很多書和書架，把它們放在客廳里，這樣拜訪者一進去就能看到。后來一次參加一個作家的聚會，作家問了簡單的問題，但是他也回答不上來，所以裝有學(xué)問是不現(xiàn)實的。

【1】句意：店主認為他兒子上學(xué)沒有用。

useful有用的；possible可能；easy輕易；difficult困難；根據(jù)“So he taught him how to get more money. ”所以他教他如何獲得更多的錢，所以此處應(yīng)該覺得他兒子上學(xué)沒有用，故選A。

【2】句意：他們在那里賺了很多錢，然后搬到市里。

went去；got得到；ran跑；moved搬；根據(jù)“Mr. West was born in a small English town”原來在城鎮(zhèn)，后文是city，所以是搬到市里，故選D。

【3】句意：現(xiàn)在Old West 不能管理他的商店，Mr. West 不得不代替他來管理。

with用；after之后；instead of代替；；before之前；根據(jù) “Now Old West can’t manage his shop and his son, Mr. West has to do it ___3___ him.”現(xiàn)在老韋斯特不能管理他的商店，Mr. West 不得不 他來管理，所以此處是取代，故選C。

【4】句意：由于韋斯特先生缺乏知識，他經(jīng)常在公共場合被嘲笑。

helped幫助；laughed at嘲笑；hurt使受傷；beaten打�。桓鶕�(jù)前文“As he has little knowledge”他缺乏知識，所以此處應(yīng)該是被嘲笑，故選B。

【5】句意：所以他買了很多書和書架，把它們放在客廳里，這樣拜訪者一進去就能看到。

borrowed借；made做；bought買；wrote寫；根據(jù)“ So he __5__ a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room ”他把書放在家里客廳，所以應(yīng)該是自己買回來的書，故選C。

【6】句意：所以他買了很多書和書架，把它們放在客廳里，這樣拜訪者一進去就能看到。

because因為；if如果；that那個；as soon as一……就；根據(jù)“ so that the visitors can see them ___6___ they go in.”此處是買回來的書放客廳為了讓拜訪者一進到他家，就可以看到。所以是一……就，故選D。

【7】句意：他經(jīng)常去聚會和仔細聽那些有學(xué)問的人說的話。

listens to聽（強調(diào)“聽”這個動作）；hears聽到（強調(diào)聽到的內(nèi)容）；looks at看一看；sees看見；根據(jù)listen to sb表示聽某人的話，此處是聽有學(xué)問的人說話，故選A。

【8】句意：他送給那位作家一些貴重的禮物。

cheap便宜；expensive昂貴的；useless無用的；small��；根據(jù)前文他參加聚會，想和那些人做朋友，所以此處作家生日，應(yīng)該是送了昂貴的禮物，故選B。

【9】句意：作家不得不問他最簡單的一個問題。

more difficult更難；the most difficult最困難；easy輕易；the easiest最簡單；根據(jù)“He could hardly answer any questions.”他幾乎不能回答任何問題，所以此處是問了最簡單的問題，故選D。

【10】句意：作家笑了笑，很快就停止了談?wù)摗?/span>

to talk談?wù)摚▌釉~不定式）；to answer回答（動詞不定式）；talking談?wù)摚▌用�詞，現(xiàn)在分詞）；answering回答（動名詞，現(xiàn)在分詞；根據(jù)stop to do 表示停下去做什么，stop doing是停止做什么，此處應(yīng)該是笑了笑，停止談話，故選C。