Question

As my train was delayed for two hours, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some newspapers to read on the journey, I made my way to the ___1___ office to collect my heavy suitcase I had ___2___ there three days before. There were only a few people ___3___, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt didn’t seem to be where I had left it. I ___4___ the contents, and railway tickets, money scraps of paper and photos fell out of it; but no matter how ___5___ I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.

When my turn came, I ___6___ the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me ___7___ as if to say that he had ___8___ this kind of story many times and asked me to ___9___ the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking ___10___ no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me ___11___ and told me to ___12___ of the chief contents of the case. If they were ___13___, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to ___14___ all the articles I had ___15___ packed into the case and wrote them down as they came to me.

After I had done this, I went to ___16___ among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there. For one dreadful moment, it ___17___ to me that if someone had ___18___ the receipt up he could have easily claimed(认领) the case already. This hadn’t happened ___19___, for after a time I found the case lying in a corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was ___20___ and told me I could take the case away.

1. A. posting   B. working     C. luggage      D. manager’s

2. A. left B. forgotten    C. found  D. bought

3. A. standing B. crowding    C. talking       D. waiting

4. A threw      B. put     C. looked       D. emptied

5. A. often      B. much  C. hard    D. soon

6. A. said B. searched     C. spoke  D. explained

7. A. now and then B. up and down      C. here and there    D. back and forth

8. A. knew      B. realized      C. heard  D. seen

9. A. describe  B. draw   C. take out      D. show

10. A. object   B. matter C. subject       D. wallet

11. A. a paper B. a note C. a message   D. a form

12. A. sign names   B. make a list  C. write down D. draw a picture

13. A. everything   B. wrong C. correct       D. ready

14. A. draw    B. remember   C. read    D. remind

15. A. carelessly     B. suddenly    C. hurriedly    D. immediately

16. A. see       B. watch  C. find    D. look

17. A. happened     B. occurred     C. appeared    D. seemed

18. A. picked  B. collected    C. taken  D. stolen

19. A. fortunately   B. unluckily    C. by chance   D. presently

20. A. disappointed B. surprised    C. satisfied     D. worried

Answer 1

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解析:

1. C。luggage office 意为“行李寄存处”，作者去领取小提箱(suitcase)，可知他是去行李寄存处。

2. A。leave 意为“留下、委托”。这里表示把行李寄存在行李寄存处。

3. D。wait 意为“等候”。由后面的when my turn came(轮到我的时候)可知在行李寄存处已经有人排队等候了。

4. D。empty 意为“倒空”。这里表示把皮包里的东西全部倒出来，寻找寄存物品的收据(receipt)。

5. C。hard意为“努力地”。这里表示无论怎样努力寻找，可是哪儿也找不到。

6. D。explain意为“解释”。由于收据没有找到，只好向管理员解释情况。

7. B。look at sb up and down 意为“上下打量着某人”。

8. C。hear 意为“听说”。表示听说过这种故事。这里指管理员以前经常遇到类似的情况。

9. A。describe意为“描述”。由于没有收据，管理员就要作者描述他的手提箱的模样。

10. A。object意为“物体”。这里指手提箱。

11. D。a form意为“一份表格”。

12. B。make a list意为“列表”。因为没有收据，管理员就要作者把他的箱子里的东西列一份清单，以便证实该手提箱是作者本人的。

13. C。correct意为“正确的”。只有当清单上的东西的名称与手提箱内的物品相吻合时，才能取走手提箱。

14. B。remember意为“回忆起”。要写清单，就必须回忆起手提箱里所放的物品(articles)。

15. C。hurriedly 意为“匆忙地”。I had hurriedly packed into the case是定语从句，修饰articles，表示出发时匆忙。因此，现在要写清单，就需要尽力回忆。故选hurriedly与上下文相符。

16. D。look 意为“看”，强调看的动作。

17. B。occur 意为“被想到”。It occurs to sb that… 意为：某人想到…。

18. A。pick up 意为“拾起、捡起”。这里指作者突然想到要是收据被别人捡到，他就可能会把手提箱领走。

19. A。unfortunately 意为“幸亏”。句意为：幸亏手提箱没有被人领走。

20. C。satisfied 意为“满意的、信服的”。这里指经过物品与清单的核对，管理员确信了手提箱是作者的，因此让作者领走了。