题目内容
In the dinning room of my grandfather’s house stood a heavy grandfather’s clock. Meals in the dinning room were a (1)______ for our four generations to become one. The grandfather’s clock always stood like a trusted old family friend, (2)______ us playing jokes and telling stories, which was already a (3)______ of our life.
As a child, the old clock interested me. I watched and listened to it during (4)______. I was surprised how at (5)______ times of the day, the clock would strike three times, six times or more, with a wonderful great (6)______ that echoed throughout the house. The clock chimed year after year, a part of my (7)______, a part of my heart.
Even more (8)______ to me was my grandfather’s special action each day. He meticulously (9)______ the clock with a special key each day. The key was magic to me. It (10)______ our family’s magnificent clock ticking and striking all year round.
1. A. time B. possibility C. problem D. pleasure
2. A. seeing B. hearing C. watching D. looking
3. A. start B. part C. signal D. mark
4. A. stories B. jokes C. periods D. meals
5. A. busy B. urgent C. happy D. different
6. A. shock B. sound C. song D. music
7. A. memories B. minds C. comfort D. information
8. A. comfortable B. hopeful C. wonderful D. skillful
9. A. opened B. wound C. turned D. started
10. A. made B. controlled C. kept D. fixed
【解题导语】 本文主要讲述了餐厅里的闹钟在我的记忆中的印象。
【新词链接】 a time 一段时光
interest sb. 引起某人的兴趣
all year round 全年
【试题解析】
1. A 短语a time意为“一段时光”，下文的become one意为“成为一体，聚集一堂”。整句意为：在这个餐厅里，一日三餐是我们一家四代人聚集一堂的时候。
2. C 爷爷的脑钟总是在那里，像一位可以信赖的家庭朋友一直看着（watch）我们开玩笑讲故事，这已经是我们生活内容的一部分。
3. B 见上句解析。
4. D 当我们还是个小孩子的时候，这座老钟使我感兴趣，在吃饭的过程中（during），我注视着这座钟，聆听着它的声音。
5. D 根据下文和生活中有关闹钟的常识判断，我感到奇怪的是在一天当中不同的时候这座钟是如何敲响3下、6下或更多下的。
6. B 闹钟发出的奇妙宏大的声音（sound）在满屋里回荡。
7. A 闹钟年复一年地打点报时，留在我的记忆里，也留在我的心里。
8. C 根据上下文，使我感到更加惊奇的（wonderful）是爷爷的习惯性动作。
9. B 此处wind意为“(给闹钟)上发条”。他每天用一个专门的钥匙小心翼翼地给闹钟上发条。
10.C 这个钥匙是有魔力的，它能保证我们的神奇的闹钟一年到头滴答作响和打点报时。
