Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very 1 woman. She didn’t buy many jewelsor 2 clothes. 3 , she spent millions in 4 a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very 1 woman. She didn’t buy many jewels(珠宝)or 2 clothes.   3 , she spent millions in 4 a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about Sarah’s 5 was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went on for 38 6 because Sarah was afraid to 7 building it.
Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a lot of 8 arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows,   9 the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000 10 . There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces.
Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting 11 ? It was because Sarah was afraid of 12 . She thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house to be finished.
Sarah Winchester’s 13 seemed to have worked 14 she lived to be 83 years old. But   15 , her house was finished.

【小题1】

A．poor

B．rich

C．useful

D．brave

【小题2】

A．cheap

B．expensive

C．simple

D．old

【小题3】

A．Still

B．Usually

C．Instead

D．Even

【小题4】

A．building

B．buying

C．selling

D．setting

【小题5】

A．door

B．window

C．kitchen

D．house

【小题6】

A．years

B．months

C．weeks

D．days

【小题7】

A．keep

B．enjoy

C．stop

D．help

【小题8】

A．drivers

B．workers

C．farmers

D．visitors

【小题9】

A．but

B．until

C．since

D．so

【小题10】

A．floors

B．kitchens

C．windows

D．rooms

【小题11】

A．bigger

B．smaller

C．stronger

D．cleaner

【小题12】

A．working

B．dying

C．living

D．growing

【小题13】

A．age

B．family

C．plan

D．husband

【小题14】

A．or

B．because

C．neither

D．nor

【小题15】

A．hardly

B．usefully

C．carefully

D．finally

【小题1】B
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】A
【小题5】D
【小题6】A
【小题7】C
【小题8】B
【小题9】D
【小题10】C
【小题11】A
【小题12】B
【小题13】C
【小题14】B
【小题15】D

解析试题分析：这篇短文描述了一个非常怕死的女人——萨拉温彻斯特。她很富有，但是钱都用来建房子了，因为她很怕死。认为只要房子完工了自己就会死去，因此她的房子建造了38年，直到她死去后房子才完工。
【小题1】联系下文she spent millions in 4 a house 可知她是一个富有的女人，故选B，富有的。
【小题2】联系上下文，可知此处指的是她不买昂贵的衣服，故选B，昂贵的。
【小题3】副词辨析。A. 仍旧；B. 通常；C. 反而，代替；D. 甚至。联系前文，可知前后位转折关系，故选C，她反而花费上亿元建造一所房子。
【小题4】spend用于sb spend. . . on sth或者sb spend. . . in doing sth（in可以省略），spend的主语必须是人，可以指花费时间、也可以指花费金钱；故选A。
【小题5】联系上文，可知此处指的是她的房子，故选D，房子。
【小题6】联系上文描述，可知这项工作持续了38年，故选A，年，岁。
【小题7】结合语境可知她害怕停止建造这所房子，故选C，停止。
【小题8】联系下文，可知此处指的是许多工人到达那里为她工作。故选B，工人们。
【小题9】联系上下文，可知前后是因果关系，后面表示原因，故选D，因此工人们持续地建造他们。
【小题10】联系前文有200扇门，可知此处指的是1000个窗户，故选C，窗户。
【小题11】联系前文，可知她想要房子变得更大，故选A，更大的。
【小题12】联系下文，可知她很害怕死，故选B，死亡。
【小题13】联系上文描述，可知此处指的是她的计划，故选C，计划。
【小题14】连词辨析。A. 或者，否则；B. 因为；C. 两者都不；D. 也不。联系上下文，可知前后只能是因果关系，故选B，因为她活到83岁。
【小题15】联系下文，可知此处指的是最终，她的房子完工了。故选D，终于，最后。
考点：关于一位怕死的女人的记述文
点评：这篇短文内容比较简单，理解不难。各小题与上下文联系比较紧密，答题中一定要注意联系上下文。答完后多读几遍，看看是否符合逻辑，适当修改。个别小题可以当作单独的词义辨析题来做，先区分词义，结合语境选出最能使语句通顺的答案。

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