Question

【题目】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
B
One day a mime(哑剧演员) is visiting the zoo and tries to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance(出席人数) at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — the job he likes but loses.
However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion's cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd.
At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction — well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime's pay keeps going up.
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slides and falls. The mime is terrified. He starts screaming “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”
（1）The mime accepts the zookeeper's offer because __________.
A.he has been out of work
B.he doesn't like being a mime
C.he likes performing at the zoo
D.he is offered a higher pay there
（2）How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?
A.Hard and tiring.
B.Dangerous but exciting.
C.Easy and funny.
D.Boring but well-paid.
（3）The mime's first contact with the lion is to __________.
A.find pleasure for himself
B.get the lion's attention
C.get his pay raised
D.win back his audience
（4）The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.
A.frightening
B.disappointing
C.exciting
D.Familiar

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）A
（2）C
（3）D
（4）C
【解析】本文是一个喜剧故事，告诉我们一个哑剧演员扮演一只大猩猩，在动物园供人娱乐，为了挣得观众与隔壁的狮子竞争，结果却发现狮子也是人扮演的。（1）A细节理解题。根据第一段的As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance(出席人数) at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.可知，故选 A。
（2）C推断判断题。根据He soon discovers he can sleep all as he likes, play and make fun of the people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime，可知，他认为这项工作很轻松。故选C。
（3）D细节理解题。根据Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience(观众), he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion's cage.可知，故选D。
（4）C猜测词义题。fuel燃料，刺激因素。故等同于exciting。故选C。