题目内容

He told us an interesting story about himself, _______________why he didn’t succeed that time. ?

A. explain B. to explain C. explained D. explaining?

解析:

主要测试非谓语动词。很多考生会认为此处应用不定式结构表示目的，从而误选B。其实，考生没有注意到前后两部分间的逗号，逗号后面部分表示一种伴随状况。正确答案为D项。

不定式作目的状语时，位于句首，常用逗号与后面句子分开，而位于句末时常不用逗号与前面句子分开。作结果状语时，不定式表示一种出乎意料之外的结果；而动词-ing形式表示事情发展的一种自然结果。如：?

I hurried to the airport, (only) to find that the plane had taken off. ?

我匆匆忙忙赶到机场，结果发现飞机起飞了。?

He was working very hard last year, passing the test successfully. ?

去年他一直努力学习，顺利通过了这个测试。?

练习册系列答案

Is the story he told us a ________ one?

A.
end
B.
finish
C.
stop
D.
complete

______ he told us is the news _______ China has got 32 gold medals in the 28th Olympic Games in Athens, _________, of course, made the nations feels very excited.

A. What; which; which B. That; that; which

C. What; that; which D. That; that; what

He told us that was no pleasure computer game.

That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn’t care for insects much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.

For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.

However, soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back, but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the basement again.

A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.

While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.

After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.

1.What do we know about the author’s mother?

A. She didn’t like insects at all.

B. She liked insects more than his father.

C. She cared for insects very much.

D. She could only tolerate a few insects.

2.The author’s father drove to the store to buy _______.

A. cigarettes for himself B. some poison

C. more coffee for his wife D. some gasoline

3.The author’s father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ______.

A. they were no longer useful

B. the crickets were afraid of fires

C. they became the home of crickets

D. the dead crickets came back to life

4.We learn from the last paragraph that ________.

A. the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets

B. the author’s parents learned to put up with insects

C. the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire

D. the author’s parents got divorced

He told us whether _________ a picnic was still under discussion

A．to have

B．having

C．have

D．had

Is the story he told us a ________ one?

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