Question

Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t ___1___ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ___2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___3___ such as strange cars, loud noises, ___4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim ___5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indians, USA. The neighborhood watch group ___6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s ___7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ___8___. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ___9___ their homes, streets, and families safe.

Tina Stedman, president of ___10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not ___11___ them. Well, it’s never happened to me.” She said, “But I don’t think anyone has the ___12___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___13___ sitting in their own homes.”

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___14___ out for one another. “We ___15___ each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a ___16___ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, then we call the ___17___. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ___18___, or someone destroying property (财产), we report to the police.”

Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ___19___ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do ___20___.”

1. A. yet  B. still     C. just     D. rather

2. A. carefully       B. clearly       C. nervously   D. coldly

3. A familiar   B. unusual      C. expensive   D. interesting

4. A. curtained       B. open   C. old     D. broken

5. A. attends   B. belongs      C. goes    D. turns

6. A. meets     B. quarrels      C. sings   D. searches

7. A. where    B. why    C. when  D. how

8. A. politics   B. wealth C. health D. safety

9. A. keep      B. hold    C. let      D. protect

10. A. its B. his      C. their   D. your

11. A. round   B. on      C. about  D. to

12. A. right    B. chance       C. courage      D. mind

13. A. unlucky       B. unsafe C. disappointed     D. discouraged

14. A. set       B. let      C. hold    D. look

15. A. care     B. enter   C. watch  D. manage

16. A. group   B. set      C. number      D. crowd

17. A. judges  B. police C. firemen      D. doctors

18. A. work    B. burden       C. service       D. trouble

19. A. produce       B. find    C. get      D. help

20. A. anything      B. everything  C. harm   D. wrong

Answer 1

1---20           CABDB   ACDAC   DABDC   ABDDB  

解析:

本文主要介绍某社区一些居民自发组成治安联防队协助警察维护社区的安全的一些情况。

1. C。根据下文内容：当 Tim Becker 开车去买东西时，他还要到居民区巡视——这说明他不只是(just)开着车从家到商店直去直回。

2. A。通读全文可知，Tim 对居民区的保卫工作很负责任，故此处填 carefully 为佳。

3. B。陌生人的车辆、大的噪音、打破的窗户或者人们聚集在街角等均属 unusual 的情况。

4. D。按常理，curtained windows, open windows, old windows 都不算 unusual，只有 broken windows 才算 unusual。

5. B。根据上下文可知，Tim 是 Stoneville, Indians, USA 的治安联保队队员，故填 belong。belong to 为固定短语，其意为“属于”。

6. 根据后面的 ...Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss… 可推知此处填 meet 最恰当。

7. C。此句的主语 that 即指前一句的 the third Wednesday of every month，故此题填 when，它相当于 the time when。如下面两例中的when 就属此用法：The morning is when I’m busiest. 早晨是我最忙的时候。/ April is when the lilacs bloom. 四月是丁香开花的季节。

8. D。根据上下文可知，治安联保队的目的是保卫社区的安全，故此处应填 safety。

9. A。keep sth safe 意为“使某物处于安全的状态”，即通常说的“保卫某物的安全”。注意不要选 protect，因为它通常不用于“动词+宾语+宾语补足语”的结构。

10. C。根据上下文的语境可推知。

11. D。but not to them 为 but doesn’t happen to them 之省略。此处句意为：人们好像觉得犯罪(案件)只会发生在别人身上而不会发生在自己身上。

12. A。right 意为“权力”，句意为：我认为任何人都没有权力偷别人的东西。

13. B。由于本文讲的是关于社区安全的问题，所以选 B 较恰当。

14. D。比较四个选项，只有 look 与其后的 out for 搭配成 look out for(留心，注意)在此最合语境。

15. C。比较四个选项只有 watch 在此最恰当。另外，后面一句 We keep watch on… 也有相应的暗示。

16. 后面的 four or five of us 决定了答案应是 a group of(一小组，一小队)，而不是 a set of(一套)、a number of(若干个)或 a crowd of(一大群)。

17. B。根据其后的 For example, if ..., we report to the police 可推知此处应填 police。这里的 For example 是把前面一句的内容具体化。

18. D。后面说 we report to the police，这说明出现了一些违法或犯罪现象，如someone destroying poverty 等，四个选项中能与此并列的应是 look for trouble，即选 D。

19. D。比较四个选项，help 用于此空意思最恰当，即社区治安联保队对减少犯罪有很大帮助。

20. B。Jim 说“警察都是些好人，但是他们也不可能做好一切”，正因为如此，社区治安联保队的存在就很有必要了。