Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Meet the magic folk

Throughout the ages and across the world, fairies（童话故事）have come alive in the stories, poems, and songs passed down from the old to the young. Some amazing stories about fairies have come to us from the British Isles. 【1】

Merrows are Irish fairy mermaids（美人鱼）. The females are very gentle and beautiful with fishes’ tails. Merrows sometimes come onto land disguised（伪装）as small, white cattle or as beautiful women wearing bright red feather caps. 【2】

Leprechauns（矮妖）are fairies that appear as tiny old men. They like to be alone most of the time, making and mending shoes and keeping their pots of gold well hidden. If a human catches a leprechaun and asks for its gold, the leprechaun must hand it over. 【3】 If the human looks away for even an instant, the leprechaun will joyfully disappear.

Brownies are hairy little men who do chores（杂事）in houses and on farms during the night. All they want as payment is food, and they get very angry if humans watch them do their work. If a brownie is given clothes as a present, he’ll disappear forever. 【4】

Selkies are seal fairies. Female selkies sometimes come to shore and take off their sealskins to play on the beach in human form. Like merrows, if a human finds a selkie’s sealskin, she can’t go back to the ocean. 【5】 If she finds her sealskin, she happily returns to the sea, leaving her human husband and children…but she comes close to shore to watch over them from time to time.

A. Here are some of these fairies.

B. Most sailors at sea hope never to see a merrow.

C. But it is far trickier（狡猾的）than it looks!

D. A selkie is quiet and lovely, with dark hair and sad eyes.

E. Instead, she must obey（服从）the human who keeps it and usually marries him.

F. Perhaps this is because he rushes back to show off his new clothes to the others.

G. If a human steals this cap, a merrow can’t go back to the sea and must stay on land.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】G

【3】C

【4】F

【5】E

【解析】

试题分析：本文写了几个关于海洋的童话故事。

【1】A考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据本空位置可知这里是一个过渡句，所以选A。

【2】G考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据前文提到的white cattle or as beautiful women wearing bright red feather caps可知帽子不能被别人偷取，所以选G。

【3】C考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据后文If the human looks away for even an instant, the leprechaun will joyfully disappear.如果人们一会没有看到，小妖精会快乐消失。可知小妖精是狡猾的，故选C。

【4】F考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据If a brownie is given clothes as a present, he’ll disappear forever.可知后面会写他消失的原因，故选F。

【5】E考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据if a human finds a selkie’s sealskin, she can’t go back to the ocean.可知她不能回到海洋，所以她要服从人类的命令，故选E。