Question

  Sarah came running in and said , " Look at what I found！ ”Over the 1        of the paper I was reading came a snake skin which caused me to jump. " Isn't it 2      ?" said my wideeyed seven-year-old daughter. I 3       the snake skin and thought 4        myself that it really was not that beautiful,5      I have learned never to appear 6        with young children,because 7       they see for the first time is elementary to their 8        of beauty and creativity.

  "Why does the snake shed (蜕皮) its skin?" Sarah asked. I wanted to 9        every opportu?nity to teach my child that there is almost always something 10        the obvious and that there is always something else going on besides 11        she sees in front of her.

"Snakes shed their skin because they need to renew themselves," I 12      .As is so often the case in my family,the 13       subject leads to another and another,until we are 14        something quite different.

  "Why do they have to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.

  "We 15       need to shed our skins,those coatings that we 16        ourselves with ," I said to my child. " We 17        some things and find other things unwanted or unnecessary. This snake 18        needs this skin. It is probably too tight for him,or he probably does not think he looks as smart in it 19        he once did. It is like he has bought a new suit."

  Of course,I am sure this explanation will not 20        scientists. But Sarah was getting the point that renewal is part of progress as well as what we need to keep and what we need to cast off.

(   ) 1. A. top   B. distance   C. bottom   D. tip

(   ) 2. A. ugly   B. strange   C. beautiful   D. dirty

(   ) 3. A. took away   B. stared at   C. closed up   D. stuck with

(   ) 4. A. of   B. over   C. about   D. to

(   ) 5. A. so   B. though   C. but   D. and

(   ) 6. A. unconcerned   B. helpful   C. unfair   D. addicted

(   ) 7. A. anything   B. something   C. everything   D. nothing

(   ) 8. A. point   B. sense   C. meaning   D. mind

(   ) 9. A. seize   B. support   C. hide   D. select

(   ) 10. A. into   B. beyond   C. within   D. above

(   ) 11. A. what   B. where   C. that   D. when

(   ) 12. A. whispered   B. explained   C. introduced   D. swore

(   ) 13. A. classic   B. final   C. advanced   D. original

(   ) 14. A. discussing   B. debating   C. deciding   D. thinking

(   ) 15. A. seldom   B. never   C. often   D. once

(   ) 16. A. touch   B. cover   C. take   D. move

(   ) 17. A. make use of   B. get away from   

        C. get interested in   D. end up with

(   ) 18. A. no longer   B. for ever   C. once more   D. not until

(   ) 19. A. for   B. with   C. like   D. as

(   ) 20. A. satisfy   B. interrupt   C. forgive   D. realize

Answer 1

1-5 ACBDC   6-10 ACBAB 

11-15 ABDAC  16-20 BCADA

对于一张蛻掉的蛇皮，作者从另一个角度给孩子讲解蛇蛻皮这一自然现象，让孩子明白一个道理：该留的则留，该弃的则弃。

1. A根据下文可以推测出作者当时正在看书，莎拉是把蛇皮放在他正在看的那一页纸"上" 了，所以才会让他吓了一跳。

2. C下文有作者的想法，即"it really wasn't that beautiful",可知莎拉问爸爸这张蛇皮是不是很漂亮。

3. B根据下文的语境,尤其是作者进行了一番思考的情景来看，他是"盯着"这张蛇皮看了一段时间。

4. D根据本句所处的情景可以断定:作者是在自己进行思想活动，think to oneself意为"心想"o

5. C上句说蛇皮并不漂亮，下句表示不能对于孩子的问题漠不关心。前后具有转折关系，故用but。

6. A appear unconcerned with..."对.... 漠不关心"。

7. C因为对于孩子们来说,初次见到的"所有事物"都是形成美感以及创造力的基础。

8. B sense of beauty"美感"。

9. A从下文对于蛇皮问题的探讨和交流来看，作者是想"抓住"每次机会,教给孩子一些道理。

10. B根据本句的句意，这里不是侧重于方位方面的用法或意义,而是指事物背后的看不着的意义,故用beyond ,意为"超出……"。

11. A介词besides后的宾语从句中缺少宾语，故用what引导。这句话的意思是："我利用一切机会教孩子知道任何事物不单有其表象，更有其深层含义。"

12. B很显然这句话是作者的"解释"。

13. D正如作者家常常出现的情况，"最初的" 话题会引出其他一个又一个新问题,直到大家谈论的内容与最初的毫不沾边为止。

14. A discuss something"讨论某事"。

15. C "我们""常常"需要"蜕皮"，即换掉身上的衣服。

16. B指身上穿的衣服，所以用co_Ver。

17. C "我们"对新事物"产生了兴趣"，原来的东西有的不想要了，有的则不需要了。

18. A这条蛇"不再"需要这张皮了。

19. D可能是蛇感到这张皮对它来说太紧了，或穿在身上不像以前那么漂亮了，就像它买了一套新衣服那样。as... as "和……一样"。

20. A作者觉得他的解释不会令科学家"满意"，但是女儿却明白了这个道理。