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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解析:
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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