题目内容
Nicollette Morganti’s friends can’t understand why she joined a dating agency(婚姻介绍所).
She has a good job ___36_____ a personal assistant with a television news agency, her own house, and a full social life. But she, a 29-year-old woman, who has a degree in English Literature, is so ___37____with British ___38____that she joined the English Rose dating agency to get in touch with single American males.
“English men are usually materialistic and have ___39___ imagination,” she says.
“I have ___40___ years being bored by men who never do anything ___41___. ”
“I’m almost 30 now and I would really love to ___42___ a husband and have __43___. I’d like to live in
In her search for the perfect man, Nicolette once ___45___ an advertisement in a magazine for ___46___ people and had 400 replies.
But she says: “I only met one or two of them. ___47___of the others sounded very ___48___. ”
Nicolette joined English Rose about 18 months ___49___ and has met 5 men ___50___ then.
She says: “ I ___51__ that American men are more romantic and thoughtful than British men. I rang ___52___ in the States, and afterwards he sent me 200 dollars to ___53___the call. ”
“ I’ve met five so far but I’m looking for someone very ___54___. I’d like to find a caring, well educated, non-smoking, animal-lover with a professional job and a ___55___ of adventure. ”
36. A. like | B. being | C. as | D. with |
37. A. men | B. bored | C. pleased | D. angry |
38. A. tried | B. games | C. music | D. master |
39. A. some | B. such | C. a little | D. no |
40. A. passed | B. spent | C. entered | D. wasted |
41. A. exciting | B. moving | C. interesting | D. living |
42. A. marry to | B. accept | C. receive | D. find |
43. A. friends | B. work | C. a home | D. children |
44. A. another | B. some | C. the other | D. other |
45. A. wrote | B. put | C. gave | D. posted |
46. A. single | B. married | C. only | D. lonely |
47. A. Most | B. Few | C. All | D. Some |
48. A. worrying | B. encouraging | C. boring | D. surprising |
49. A. before | B. later | C. more | D. ago |
50. A. from | B. since | C. after | D. until |
51. A. expect | B. suppose | C. know | D. feel |
52. A. one | B. it | C. them | D. him |
53. A. pay to | B. pay off | C. pay for | D. pay back |
54. A. ordinary | B. handsome | C. special | D. lovely |
55. A. feeling | B. sense | C. way | D. kind |
36. C这里as的意思是“作为”。
37. B be bored with: 对……感到厌倦。
38. A。从下文的American males可以得出本题的答案。tried作British的后置定语。
39. D。她认为英国男人注重物质利益，且没有想象力。
40. B。spend：“度过”。
41. A。由于缺乏想象力，当然就做不出令人激动，兴奋的事。
42. D。
43. C。找丈夫的目的是建立一个家庭。
44. C。一年12个月，她在英国待半年，在美国待另半年。
45. B。put an advertisement in a magazine：在杂志上做广告。
46. A。一个专为独身的人办的杂志。
47. A。她只约见了其中一两个人，是因为她认为其他的人都很无聊。
48. C。
49. D。从上下文的时态可以选出答案。
50. B。时态是完成时，所以选B。
51. D。
52. A。one是泛指一个美国男人，不是特指。
53. C。pay for the call是“付话费”的意思。
54. C。从下文她认为的理想的丈夫可以看出，她的丈夫非等闲之辈，所以答案是C。
55. B。
