Question

【題目】

People use their mouths for many things. In the English language, there are many meanings using the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice. For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest（抗議）and say “Do not bad mouth me.”

Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts（傷害） person’s feelings, Or they tell the person something they didn’t mean to tell. The speaker might say, “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.

Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say, “You took the words right out of my mouth!”

Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”.

This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives “from hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.

【1】The underlined word “regret” in paragraph 2 means _________.

A. feel sorryB. feel excited

C. feel proudD. feel worried

【2】When your friend took the words right out of your mouth, you can say “_________”.

A. You are cleverB. I am very lucky

C. We have the same ideaD. I am very angry

【3】The passage mainly tells us _________.

A. English people say hurtful things more often

B. people use their mouths do to lots of things

C. the rich have different mouths from the poor

D. the word “mouth” has different meanings in English

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【解析】

這篇短文給我們講述的是英語單詞“mouth”。它有很多意思，用在不同的表達和情景中。作者給我們總結(jié)了一些這樣的表達，并舉例告訴我們這些表達的意思。

【1】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)后面的句子because it hurts（傷害）person’s feelings, Or they tell the person something they didn’t mean to tell.可知，人們對朋友或家人說過的話傷害了別人的感情，因此會對自己說過的話感到后悔，答案選A。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段中Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say.可知，有時候別人說的話正是你想說的，這個時候你就可以說“You took the words right out of my mouth!”，即你們有相同的想法。故選C。

【3】主旨大意題。這篇短文中作者告訴了我們一些跟“mouth”這個詞有關(guān)的表達，并且給我們舉了很多例子，讓我們知道這些表達具體應該怎么用。故D mouth這個單詞在英語中有很多意思，這個選項最符合文意，答案選D。