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完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The picked up the thermos (热水瓶) and poured some hot water into the tea-cups and placed them on the small table in front of his , who were a father and a daughter. Obviously________ of something, the host hurried into the inner room, leaving the ________on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling (飒飒地响).
They ________sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the ________ came, right there in the living room. Something was broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked ________ her shoulder at once, startled (吓一跳), ________ . It was________ . Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the ________ floor and said immediately, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”
The father started to say something. Then he muttered (嘀咕), “ Sorry, I ________it and it fell.”
“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.
Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your ________ in the windowpane (玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly ________ . Why did you say…?”
The father ________ , “What would you ________ as the cause of its fall?”
“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven (不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr. Li put it there.”
“It won’t ________, girl. It sounds more ________ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you ________ them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was lost i_________ for a while. Then she said, “Can you ________ it only in this way?”
“Only in this way, for sure.” the father said.
1.A. host B. customer C. guest D. guide
2.A. friends B. neighbors C. guests D. children
3.A. knowing B. singing C. hearing D. thinking
4.A. thermos B. cup C. apple D. tea
5.A. enjoyed B. remained C. imagined D. hated
6.A. stranger B. host C. voice D. crash
7.A. for B. at C. in D. over
8.A. staring B. laughing C. smiling D. eating
9.A. helpless B. exciting C. terrible D. strange
10.A. broken B. streaming C. clean D. buautiful
11.A. touched B. beat C. dropped D. threw
12.A. hands B. reflection C. legs D. eyes
13.A. calm B. unmoved C. stand D. straight
14.A. shouted B. complained C. repeated D. laughed
15.A. tell B. make C. accept D. give
16.A. work B. open C. close D. indicate
17.A. comfortable B. acceptable C. friendly D. imaginable
18.A. defend B. support C. discuss D. argue
19.A. darkness B. ignorance C. sadness D. silence
20.A. explain B. do C. make D. manage