题目内容
“How did the robber get in?” “______ an open window on the first floor.”
A. Past B. From
C. Over D. Through
D
through 意为“穿过,贯穿,经过,透过”。
Goldie's Secret
She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We're moving house.'; "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.
I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.
That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.
By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.
I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.
1.How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?
A.Shocked. |
B.Sympathetic. |
C.Annoyed. |
D.Upset. |
2.In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie ______.
A.felt worried |
B.was angry |
C.ate a little |
D.sat by the fire |
3.Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ______.
A.saw her puppies |
B.heard familiar barking |
C.wanted to leave the author |
D.found her way to her old home |
4. The passage is organized in order of ______.
A.time |
B.effectiveness |
C.importance |
D.complexity |
A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers. "Last week," said he, "my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, 1 spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back."
"How did you write your advertisement?" asked one of the listeners, a merchant.
"Here it is," said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, "Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No l0 Broad Street."
"Now," said the merchant, "I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance. Let us try your umbrella again, and if it fails, I will buy you a new one."
The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: "If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No. 10 Broad Street. He is well-known."
This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors that had been thrown in and his own was among them. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.
1. This is a story about_______.
A.how a man lost and found his umbrella |
B.how to make an effective advertisement |
C.how to find lost things |
D.how to put an advertisement in the newspaper |
2. "If it fails, I will buy you a new one "suggested that______.
A.he was rich enough to afford an umbrella |
B.he was quite sure of his success |
C.he was not sure he would get the umbrella back |
D.he was ready to help others |
3.The result of the first advertisement was that______.
A.the man got his umbrella back |
B.the man wasted some money advertising |
C.the man found his umbrella |
D.someone found his umbrella |
4.According to the first advertisement, anyone who_____ would receive ten shillings.
A.left the umbrella in the City Church |
B.found the umbrella at No. I 0 Broad Street |
C.gave the message to the man |
D.left the umbrella at No. 10 Broad Street |