Tom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies.
One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop(肉店)during the day-time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving while he went to the back room to do the accounts(账目). In the hospital , on the other hand, he was , of course , allowed to do the simplist jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Tom had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Tom had to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woman was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operation before he came to get her, but when she saw Tom, that finished her.
“No! No!” she cried. “Not my butcher! I won’t be operated on by my butcher!” and fainted away(昏厥).
68. Tom made enough money by ________.
A. studying in the university         B. working in a butcher’s shop
C. doing two jobs                  D. cutting meat well
69. Tom was a student, but at the same time he was__________.
A. a butcher and a doctor           B. a manager and a doctor
C. an assistant                    D. a manager
70. The woman patient recognized Tom because ____________.
A. he was wearing white clothes    
B. he had sold meat to her
C. he was now working in the hospital  
D. he was going to operate on her
71. When she saw Tom, that finished her, the sight of Tom _________.
A. plunged her into deep sorrow  
B. made her decide not to have an operation
C. broke her heart        
D. took all her strength and courage away

After her husband had gone to work, Mrs Richards send her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any housework that morning.?  In the evening she would go to a fancy dress party with her husband. She wanted to dress up as a ghost and as she had made her costume the night before, she was impatient to try it on. Though the costume consisted only of a sheet, it was really splendid. After putting it on, She went downstairs to find out whether it would be comfortable to wear.

  Just as Mrs Richards was entering the dining-room, there was a knock on the front door. She knew it must be the baker. She had told him to come straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the table. Not wanting to frighten the poor man, she quickly hid in the small store-room under the stair. She heard the front door opened and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the door of the store-room was opened and in came a man. Mrs Richards realized it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the meter. She tried to explain the situation, saying “It’s only me. ”but it was too late, the man let out a cry and jumped back several paces. When Mrs Richards walked towards him, he fled, losing the door heavily behind him.

1.The reason for Mrs Richards’ excitement that day was that____.

A.she had sent her children to school

B.she was to attend an evening party

C.she wouldn’t do any housework that morning

D.she had made a special costume the night before

2.Mrs Richards went downstairs with the costume on so as to____.

A.made sure that the costume fitted her well

B.frighten the person who was knocking on the door

C.find out if she had finished the costume

D.receive the bread and do some cooking

3.The man who was knocking at the door was____.

A.a baker           B.a thief            C.her husband       D.an electricity man

4.What did the man do after he knocked on the front door?

A.He entered just as Mrs Richards had told him to.

B.He did not do anything as Mrs Richards had expected him to.

C.He stepped directly towards the meter.

D.He went straight in so as to find Mrs Richards.

5.The man ____ and that made him cry out and run away.

A.thought he must have met a ghost

B.recognized Mrs Richards

C.found out Mrs Richards was walking towards him

D.thought that Mrs Richards must have recognized him

 

 

第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。                 

Early in the morning, I was taken in a nylon bag into a truck. I felt horrible as well as    36  . What would she do with me? She was almost mad after the   37   of her husband.

A few minutes later, I heard the truck   38   its engine and move fast. I kept making sounds to show my protest, but failed to make any   39  . Finally she put me down in a   40   place. Maybe she didn’t want me to die from lack of air; she untied the bag.

I   41   out and looked up, only to see many strange faces and fingers pointing at me.

It turned out that my owner meant to   42   me. I saw my owner on the truck, which was going farther and farther away. So I cast my head   43   the direction of the truck. The days we spent together were like a movie playing in front of my eyes as I ran after the truck. I saw my male owner, who suffered liver cancer, looked at me with his sad eyes. I saw myself   44   my owner everywhere; I saw him lie in his dying bed, she all   45  .

I ran as fast as I could. And the   46   I saw her wave to me, my eyes became wet. I wouldn’t blame her for treating me like this for she was such a (an)   47   lady. She seemed even somewhat   48   at his leaving her alone, trying many ways to   49   the pains of losing him. She   50   his pictures and clothes, she redecorated the whole house. Now I was the only    51   thing to remind her of him.  52   later, I am pretty sure that she would realize how mad she was to do this...

The truck finally stopped when I was almost   53  . She ran up to me and hugged me    54  . I heard her   55 : “I know you are a present he left to me.”

36. A. frightened                        B. excited                           C. delighted                       D. puzzled

37. A. death                                B. absence                         C. separation                             D. departure

38. A. run                                    B. begin                              C. start                               D. operate

39. A. sense                                B. difference                       C. effort                              D. trouble

40. A. usual                                 B. dark                                C. familiar                          D. strange

41. A. struggled                         B. walked                           C. ran                                 D. rushed

42. A. desert                              B. harm                                C. punish                            D. sell

43. A. into                                   B. at                                    C. in                                     D. to

44. A. guide                                  B. follow                             C. support                           D. bring

45. A. in peace                           B. in silence                       C. out of breath                D. in tears

46. A. time                                  B. way                                  C. direction                      D. moment

47. A. cruel                                 B. unfortunate                            C. unfavorable                  D. unfriendly

48. A. depressed                       B. sad                                   C. angry                              D. calm

49. A. prevent                             B. remove                          C. bear                                D. kill      

50. A. burned                                       B. kept                                C. sold                                 D. hid

51. A. walking                              B. moving                            C. existing                          D. blessing

52. A. But                                    B. And                                 C. Thus                               D. Then

53. A. made out                          B. knocked out                  C. left out                           D. worn out

54. A. tightly                               B. patiently                        C. desperately                   D. sadly

55. A. shout                B. whisper                C. speak                         D. talk               

 

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