Question

【题目】完形填空

阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

The professor’s house，big and untidy，stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.

I was glad that I had found him. In twenty minutes, he me right on all the

that had puzzled me. I was on the of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see.”

“No, I’m not,” he said. “ , I love this garden, though. It’s I always wanted it to be. I never touch it at all.”

“It could be made lovely. It a pity to let all this ground go to waste. But perhaps you don’t that way?” said I.

“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby，you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (叶片) of grass was an enemy to be by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”

“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even!”

“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the it had. It used to

me. It appeared in my dreams—a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”

“And now it’s yours，you’re just letting it go to...”

“ ?” he said. “No，I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like it grow its own way. I make no demands on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has at last, and so have I.”

“But the path is over grown. It’s inconvenient for you，isn’t it?”

“That’s part of my ,” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”

【1】A. wild B. crazy C. large D. nice

【2】A. lost B. felt C. took D. made

【3】A. let B. put C. taught D. explained

【4】A. gardening B. plants C. problems D. solution

【5】A. time B. point C. permission D. request

【6】A. Even if B. So C. As though D. Even so

【7】A. as B. where C. why D. whether

【8】A. seems B. is C. proves D. sounds

【9】A. recognize B. sense C. see D. know

【10】 A. fond B. short C. free D. enough

【11】A. interested B. fit C. content D. demanding

【12】 A. fought against B. cleared up C. rooted out D. cut down

【13】A. effect B. reason C. cause D. result

【14】A. astonish B. shock C. worry D. disappoint

【15】A. hought B. supposed C. ordered D. expected

【16】 A. Sell B. Develop C. Ruin D. Grow

【17】A. noticing B. attending C. watering D. watching

【18】A. on B. in C. with D. of

【19】A. freedom B. time C. sunlight D. space

【20】A. life B. pleasure C. job D. research

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】B

【4】C

【5】B

【6】D

【7】A

【8】A

【9】C

【10】D

【11】B

【12】C

【13】A

【14】C

【15】B

【16】C

【17】D

【18】B

【19】A

【20】B

【解析】

本文叙述了教授的房子在花园的后头，作者去向请教问题时，发现他的房子周围全部是荒草，好像没有人居住一样，两人在谈完了问题后，就开始谈论起花园的问题，教授给出了他不去清理院子里的杂草的原因，他想与杂草和平相处，给彼此自由。

【1】A 考查形容词及上下文的呼应。wild荒凉的； crazy疯狂的； large大的； nice好的。根据上文教授的房子是大的，不干净的，完全没有人关心过，由此可知这里显得荒凉，故答案选A。

【2】D 考查动词短语及上下文的呼应。lose one’s way迷路；feel one’s way摸索着走；make one’s way艰难地向前走。根据该句中through bushes and tall weeds 可知答案选D。

【3】B 考查动词辨析。let让，出租；put放，表达，对…加以解释；teach教；explain解释。句意：20分钟后他向我解释了困扰我的所有问题。根据句意，可知答案选B。

【4】C 考查名词及上下文的呼应。根据句意：20分钟后他向我解释了困扰我的所有问题，可知这里that had puzzled me.是定语从句，修饰problems。答案选C。

【5】B 考查固定短语。on the point of doing正要做某事；句意：“我”正要离开时，我从他的书房的窗户向外看去。根据句意，可知答案选B。

【6】D考查连词及上下文的呼应。Even if即使；So 因此；As though好像；Even so即使如此。根据后面句子可知句意：即使如此，“我”还是喜欢花园，故答案选D。

【7】A 考查连词及上下文的呼应。as随着，当…时， 如同，按照；where在…的地方；why为什么；whether是否。句意：“我”总是让它如同原来的样子，故答案选A。

【8】A 考查系动词辨析。seem似乎，像是；is是；prove证明是；sound听起来。句意：让这整片地成为废地似乎很可惜。根据句意，可知答案选A。

【9】C考查动词辨析及上下文的呼应。recognize认出；sense感觉到；see看到；know了解。句意：但是也许不是你看到的那种样子。根据句意可知答案选C。

【10】D 考查形容词辨析及上下文的呼应。fond喜欢；short矮的，短的；free自由的，免费的；enough充足的。have enough of受够了，根据下文My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. …I dislike it. 可知教授受够了园林的活，故答案选D。

【11】B考查形容词及上下文的呼应。interested感兴趣；fit适合的；content满足的，满意的；demanding苛求的。句意：不幸的是，他自己也不适合做园艺。be fit for适合，胜任；故答案选B。

【12】C 考查动词短语及上下文的呼应。fight against对抗，反对；clear up清理，放晴，整理；root out连根拔起； cut down削减，砍倒。句意：每一片叶子都是敌人，都需要用手连根拔起。根据句意可知答案选C。

【13】A 考查名词辨析及上下文的呼应。effect影响，效果，作用；reason原因；cause原因，事业，目标；result结果。句意：我不理解它有什么效果，它只是让我担心。根据句意，可知答案选A。

【14】C 考查动词辨析及上下文的呼应。astonish使惊讶；shock使震惊；worry使担心；disappoint使失望。句意：我不理解它有什么效果，它只是让我担心。根据句意可知答案选C。

【15】B考查动词及上下文的呼应。think 想； expect 期望； order命令； be supposed to have done 本应该做某事而实际并没有做。句意：“我”应该早该清理了。根据句意可知答案选B。

【16】C 考查动词及上下文的呼应。Sell卖；Develop发展；Ruin废墟，毁灭，荒废； Grow生长 。根据上文内容及作者想要表达的话可知此处教授是说“荒废”，故答案选C。

【17】D 考查动词及上下文的呼应。noticing注意到；attending参加；watering浇水； Watching观察 。根据上下文内容可知句意：“我”喜欢看它成长，故答案选D。

【18】B 考查固定搭配。in one’s own way以某人自己的方式，in a way以…方式。句意：我喜欢看它以自己的方式成长。故答案选B。

【19】A 考查名词及上下文的呼应。freedom自由；time时间；sunlight阳光；space太空。根据上下文可知句意：它有它的自由，“我”有“我”的自由，故答案选A。

【20】B 考查名词及上下文的呼应。Life生命，生活；pleasure快乐，娱乐；job工作；research研究，调查。根据上下文可知句意：那是我快乐的一部分。故答案选B。