题目内容
Jenkins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond (钻石) ring worth ￡57,000 for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked 1 like the first one but was worth only ￡2,000. He took this to the shop, which 2 it without a question.
Jenkins gave the much more 3 ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife 4 to Paris for a weekend. As to the 5 ring, the shop sold it for ￡60,000.
Six months later the buyer 6 it back to Silkstone's office. “It' s a faulty (有瑕疵的) diamond.” he said, “It isn't worth the high 7 I paid.” Then he told them the 8 . His wife's car had caught fire in an 9 . She had escaped (幸免), 10 the ring had fallen off and been damaged (损坏) in the great 11 of the fire.
The shop had to 12 . They knew that no fire on earth can 13 damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the 14 diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who 15 it?
A picture of the ring appeared in the 16 . A reader thought he 17 the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which 18 a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman 19 a large diamond ring.“Do you know the 20 with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.
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1．形容copy的戒指完全像第一枚戒指，表示简直无懈可击．exactly修饰look like相当于look completely like，符合题意要求． 2．商店没看出破绽，自然是accepted it（接收它），而不可能received it（收到它）． 3．more valuable“更有价值的”；worth“值得的”的意思；real“真实的”，这两个钻戒在真实性上不能做比较；modern“现代的”，与本文无关． 4．在文中最一段中的“…a plane for Paris.”可看出詹金斯和妻子是乘飞机去巴黎度周末的． 5．珠宝店的那枚戒指是根据第一枚仿造的，故B为最佳答案． 6．买主发现不是真的，就拿回来了．因为原文中有back，故排除returned． 7．价格是论高低而言．I paid是该空的后置定语，只有money和price能做paid的宾语，但是high后只能选price． 8．从上下文的叙述可知，“于是他告诉他们事情的经过（即事实）．” 9．由caught fire可得出答案为accident“偶然的事；不测事件”． 10．表示人逃了，但戒指却掉在火中． 11．因为真金不怕火炼，所以假的也就被火的热度给损坏了． 12．从下句的意思来判断，该题的最佳答案为B． 13．ever相当于at any time．该句意思是“他们知道在任何时候火都不能使宝石受损”． 14．real是句中的faulty的反义词． 15．did it指代上文中的take the real diamond and put a faulty one in its place． 16．下文的信息为该题提供了线索． 17．根据上下文内容可以判断出正确答案为D，recognize的意思是be able to identify sb./sth．again that one has seen before （辨认出），符合题意． 18．表示报纸上展示出一位著名的舞蹈家走出飞往巴黎的飞机的情景． 19．wear a ring“戴戒指”． 20．最后一句话表明，戴美丽的宝石戒指的人一定是詹金斯的妻子，所以B是该题的正确选项． |
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