Question

The 1____ picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his 2____, who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously 3_____ of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 4 _____ on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling(颯颯地響).

They 5 _____ sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6 ____ came, right there in the living room. Something was hopelessly broken.

It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7 ____ her shoulder at once, startled(嚇一跳), 8_____. It was 9 _____.Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10_____ floor and blurted out（脫口而出）, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”

The father started to say something. Then he muttered（嘀咕）, “ Sorry, I 11_____ it and it fell.”

“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.

Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your 12 ____ in the windowpane(玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly13____. Why did you say…?”

The father 14____, “What then would you 15____ as the cause of its fall?”

“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven(不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr Li put it there.”

“It won’t 16_____, girl. It sounds more 17_____ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you 18_____them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”

The daughter was 19_____ in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you 20____ it only this way?”

“Only this way,” the father said.

A.owner          B. host          C. guest         D. master

A.friends         B. neighbors     C. children       D. guests

A.knowing        B. remembering  C. hearing        D. thinking

A.thermos        B. cup          C. lid           D. tea

A.enjoyed         B. remained     C. imagined      D. hated

A.stranger        B. host          C. crash         D. noise

A.around         B. at           C. behind         D. over

A.staring          B. watching     C. shouting        D. crying

A.helpless         B. exciting      C. strange         D. terrible

A.broken         B. streaming    C. dirty           D. flooded

A.touched        B. used         C. hit            D. moved

A.faced          B. shadow       C. reflection      D. action

A.calm          B. still          C. silent          D. straight

A.shouted        B. murmured     C. laughed       D. repeated

A. tell           B. make         C. accept         D. give

A.do            B. help          C. go            D. fit

A.comfortable    B. friendly       C. acceptable      D. agreeable

A.defend        B. support        C. discuss         D. argue

A.kept          B. shut           C. worried         D. lost

A.do            B. explain        C. make           D. manage

Answer 1

【小題1】B

【小題2】D

【小題3】D

【小題4】A

【小題5】B

【小題6】C

【小題7】D

【小題8】A

【小題9】C

【小題10】B

【小題11】A

【小題12】C

【小題13】B

【小題14】C

【小題15】D

【小題16】A

【小題17】C

【小題18】A

【小題19】D

【小題20】B

解析:

本文中的父親通過水瓶自爆這一件事情，向女兒闡明了這樣一個道理：有些事情解釋得越清楚，別人聽起來就越不相信。

【小題1】由第10空前那句話可知，拿水瓶倒茶后進(jìn)入內(nèi)室的是主人(host)。

【小題2】相對于host而言。第4個空格后又再現(xiàn)了這一信息。

【小題3】突然想起了什么事情，又匆忙跑進(jìn)內(nèi)屋，用think of表示“想起來”。此空可以根據(jù)行文邏輯和詞語搭配關(guān)系選定。

【小題4】上下呼應(yīng)。從下面的水瓶掉下地，打碎來推測，水瓶是放在桌子上。另前文的place it on the small table也暗示了這一點(diǎn)。

【小題5】與主人的“離開”形成對比，客人“仍舊”坐在那兒。

【小題6】通過下文得知，是水瓶爆了所發(fā)出的爆炸應(yīng)用“crash”。由第8空后的sound一詞也可得到啟發(fā)。

【小題7】look over one’s shoulder意為“回過頭看”，合乎文意。

【小題8】“叫”“哭”有可能發(fā)生在水瓶爆裂的時侯，不可能發(fā)生在事后，故排除C、D。驚訝時會“盯著看”，合乎常情。

【小題9】因?yàn)闆]人碰過水瓶，所以事情有點(diǎn)“蹊蹺”。

【小題10】水瓶炸裂，流出熱水，自然會冒出蒸氣，故用“steaming”。A、D兩個選項(xiàng)不太可能出現(xiàn)。

【小題11】由第17空后的knock it down推知。

【小題12】因?yàn)榕畠涸�是向窗外看的，所以透過窗戶玻璃看到的是父親的“影像”，故用reflection。

【小題13】指身體的紋絲不動用still，指沒有聲音用silent,指心平氣和用calm，這里顯然指身體的未動。straight較為片面，應(yīng)舍去。

【小題14】laugh（笑著說）表明了父親的睿智。

【小題15】give此處表示“給出理由”。

【小題16】此處do為vi，意為“起作用”，help沒有do蘊(yùn)含豐富。

【小題17】由行文邏輯和空格后的accept推定。

【小題18】defend sth. 意為“為……而辯解”。全句意為：你越辯解，別人越不相信。

【小題19】父親講得玄乎，女兒聽得似懂非懂，be lost意為“迷茫”。

【小題20】上文中父親對水瓶爆裂原因的敘述就是一種“解釋”。do和manage 也說得通，但意義較為籠統(tǒng)，不及explain含義準(zhǔn)確.