Question

  Papa was a rancher (牧场主) .He worked with 1        He was proud of the way he 2       ,He always wore clean clothes even when he worked. That is very 3        for a rancher who works outside on a horse farm. He often said to me , " Son,you may not be able to buy the best clothes,but you must always keep those you have 4       . That is the important thing."Papa did what he said. His clothes were 5        dirty like those of most of the other ranchers I knew.

Papa never worked outside 6       a hat. He always wore the same kind of hat. It was a 7       hat. He never pushed the hat to one side of his head,he wore it straight and he did not push the top of his hat 8        like most cowboys do. Papa had 9        hats. One was his Sundayhat,the other was his everydayhat. When his Sundayhat got old,he wore it 10        and then bought a new Sundayhat. He wore his Sundayhat only to church or on holidays. Most of the time he 11        his Sundayhat in a special box. He hid it so we could not find it. Papa loves his hats and he 12        for them in a special way. He never threw them down on the 13       ,someone might sit on them. He even had a special place for his everydayhat. As soon as he came into the house from 14       ,he put his hat on the nail behind the kitchen door.

  Mama was very careful of Papa's hat. She was proud of the way he looked when he worked. She was not 15        to touch his Sundayhat. Then something happened. Maybe it was the 16        of the long summer,maybe Mama read about the hats in a magazine or book,she got the idea that Papa should not wear a 17       wool cowboy hat in the hot weather. She began to believe that Papa would 18        his hair if he did. Mama began to care more about Papa's hair than his hats. Perhaps it was Uncle George who made Mama 19        about Papa's hair. Uncle George had no hair. His head was as smooth as an egg. Papa had fake black hair that shone like 20       . It was terrible if Papa lost his hair because he wore a heavy wool cowboy hat. So Mama began to worry.

(   ) 1. A. horse   B. cow   C. sheep   D. chicken

(   ) 2. A. fed   B. acted   C. dressed   D. lived

(   ) 3. A. easy   B. common   C. difficult   D. necessary

(   ) 4. A. smart   B. folded   C. clean   D. smooth

(   ) 5. A. seldom   B. never   C. always   D. occasionally

(   ) 6. A. wearing   B. without   C. having   D. with

(   ) 7. A. strange   B. straw   C. nice   D. cowboy

(   ) 8. A. aside   B. down   C. up   D. over

(   ) 9. A. two   B. many   C. clean   D. special

(   ) 10. A. sometimes   B. occasionally   C. often   D. every day

(   ) 11. A. stored   B. protected   C. got   D. kept

(   ) 12. A. cares   B. looks   C. keeps   D. asks

(   ) 13. A. chair   B. table   C. floor   D. bed

(   ) 14. A. school   B. work   C. downtown   D. church

(   ) 15. A. banned   B. permitted   C. encouraged   D. advised

(   ) 16. A. rain   B. coolness   C. heat   D. wind

(   ) 17. A. heavy   B. light   C. strange   D. special

(   ) 18. A. spoil   B. lose   C. hurt   D. damage

(   ) 19. A. care   B. think   C. talk   D. worry

(   ) 20. A. silk   B. gold   C. sunshine   D. moon

Answer 1

1. A由下文得知。

2. C 由下句中wore clean clothes得知。

3. C由于是在牧场和马待在一起，所以很难保持衣服干净。

4. C文章此段第2行提到。

5. B父亲教育我们要保持衣服干净，所以他自己的衣服总是很干净,从不像其他人的那样脏。

6. B从下文得知父亲每天都戴帽子，所以从不会外出不戴帽子。

7. D由下句得知。

8. B父亲对着装很讲究，所以从不会故意把帽子压低，而是端正地戴着。

9. A由下文得知，一顶Sundayhat,—顶everydayhat ,所以是两顶帽子。

10. D 当Sundayhat旧了，父亲就把它变成every dayhat₀

11. D父亲把帽子用专门的盒子收起来让我们找不到，keep表状态。

12. A父亲很爱护自己的帽子。

13. A 由下文的someone might sit on them得知是chair。虽然bed也能坐，但一般人不会去坐别人的床。

14. B from work指父亲下班回家。

15. B父亲很珍惜自己的帽子所以不许母亲动。

16. C因为夏天炎热，母亲才担心父亲戴帽子会影响他的头发。

17. A沉重的帽子易伤头发。

18. B母亲担心父亲在炎热的天气戴帽子会掉头发。

19. D因为Uncle George没有头发，所以母亲担心父亲会和他一样。

20. A头发像丝一样光滑闪亮。