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1．One day a mime（哑剧演员）is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer．As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla（大猩猩），has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla．The mime accepts．
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes．He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime-the job he likes but loses．
However，with days going by，he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his．Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience，he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition（隔墙），and dangles（悬挂）from the top to the lion's cage．The lion gets angry at this．The scene is a fuel to the crowd．
At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction-Well，this continues for some time．The crowds grow larger，and the mime's pay keeps going up．
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls．The mime is terrified．He starts screaming，"Help me!"，but the lion is quick．The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says，"Shut up you fool!Do you want to get us both fired？"
21．The mime accepts the zookeeper's offer becauseA．
A．he has been out of work
B．he doesn't like being a mime
C．he likes performing at the zoo
D．he is offered a higher pay there
22．How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla？C
A．Hard and tiring．
B．Dangerous but exciting．
C．Easy and funny．
D．Boring but well-paid．
23．The mime's first contact with the lion is toD．
A．find pleasure for himself    
B．get the lion's attention
C．get his pay raised             
D．win back his audience
24．The underlined words"a fuel"in Paragraph 3 can be replaced byC．
A．frightening     
B disappointing    
C．exciting       
D．familiar．

分析 本文属于记叙文阅读，作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了哑剧演员假扮猩猩挑衅狮子却发现对方也是演员的故事

解答 21．A．细节理解题．根据第一段He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla．The mime accepts可知哑剧演员接受管理员的提议因为已经失业；故选A．
22．C．推理判断题．歌剧第二段He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime-the job he likes but loses可知哑剧演员认为打扮成大猩猩的工作简单有趣；故选C．
23．D．细节理解题．根据第三段Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience，he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition（隔墙），and dangles（悬挂）from the top to the lion's cage可知哑剧演员与狮子的第一次接触是为了赢回他的观众；故选D．
24．C．词义猜测题．根据第三段The scene is a fuel to the crowd可知人群兴奋起来了；意为令人兴奋的；故选C．

点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力，做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确的选择．在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．

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