Question

【題目】Tim is a photographer. He loves to travel and take pictures. ______. Six months ago, Tim and his wife, Candy went to Egypt to visit the Great Pyramids. They are large tombs for the kings. There are about 300,000 rocks in a pyramid. These tombs were not built by aliens or robots. It is said that a pyramid was built by 100,000 workers and it took about 20 years to finish the work. It must be very heavy for workers to carry the rocks. How could they move those big rocks? ______.

They also tried some Egyptian food and went shopping there. They couldn’t wait to be there again. Tim took a lot of pictures for his new books. ______.

【1】

A. He has never been to any country

B. He only takes photos of modern buildings

C. He wants to marry a woman, and he wants her to travel with him, too

D. He has been to many countries

【2】

A. It is amazing B. It is amazed

C. It just can’t help it D. It’s around the corner

【3】

A. He believed that it’s not a big deal to build the pyramids

B. But the new books are not his cup of tea

C. They really had a whale of a time there

D. He didn’t think that he would come back there

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】C

【解析】

這篇短文講述的是Tim非常喜歡旅行和拍照，六個月之前他和妻子Candy一起去了埃及，他們參觀了金字塔、品嘗了埃及的食物、購物，還拍了很多照片，玩得非常開心。

【1】A意為：他從來沒有去過任何國家；B：他只給現(xiàn)代建筑拍照；C：他想娶一個女人，他也想讓她和他一起去旅行；D：他去過很多國家。根據(jù)上句話He loves to travel and take pictures可知，Tim喜歡旅行和拍照。而下文則講述了Tim和妻子去埃及的一次旅行。因此我們可以推斷他去過很多國家，故應(yīng)選D。

【2】A：這是令人吃驚的；B：它是感到吃驚的；C：它只是情不自禁；D：它在拐角處。上文講述了古代的埃及人是如何建造金字塔的，據(jù)說金字塔是由100,000名工人，花費(fèi)了大約20年的時間修建成的，對于工人們來說搬運(yùn)巨大的石頭肯定是非常困難的，他們卻做到了，因此這是非常令人驚訝的。故應(yīng)選A。

【3】A：他相信修建金字塔不是什么大事；B：但是他對新書不感興趣；C：他們在那里玩得真的非常開心；D：他認(rèn)為他不會再回到那兒去了。根據(jù)上文的描述They also tried some Egyptian food and went shopping there. They couldn’t wait to be there again. Tim took a lot of pictures for his new books可知，Tim和Candy在埃及玩得非常的開心，故應(yīng)選C。

這篇短文給我們講述了Tim和妻子Candy去埃及的一次旅行。短文主題明確，內(nèi)容貼近學(xué)生們的日常生活，比較容易理解。題型是選項(xiàng)適當(dāng)?shù)木渥油瓿啥涛�。做題時，首先瀏覽全文，了解大意；然后閱讀選項(xiàng)，弄清楚每個選項(xiàng)的意思；根據(jù)空格的上下文選擇適當(dāng)?shù)拇鸢�。例如�?/span>3小題，文章第一段主要介紹了他們參觀金字塔，空格前的幾句話又補(bǔ)充介紹了Tim和Candy在埃及做的其他事情，如吃埃及的食物、購物、拍照等，從這些事實(shí)上我們可以知道，他們在埃及玩得非常的開心，故應(yīng)選C。