Question

 Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failures in career made him a bad-tempered and disappointed man,often complaining that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so 1 with the city that he had to leave.

  So his family 2 to another city. It was the 3 of a weekend. When Terry and his wife were busily engaged in 4 their new home,the lights suddenly went 5 and they were forced to stop work. Terry regretted 6 to bring along candles and had to wait 7 in a bad mood. Just then he heard light, hesitant 8 on his door that were clearly heard in the quiet night.

  "Who's it?" he wondered. Terry didn't 9 anybody in the new city,and this was the moment he especially hated to be10 . He went to the door and opened it impatiently. At the door was a little girl,asking in a 11 voice, "Sir,do you have candles? I'm your neigh?bor.”"NO”， answered Terry 12 ? He shut the door and the girl went up. "What a nuisance！" he complained over it with his wife. " 13 had we settled down than the neighbor came to borrow things."

  He was angry about it 14the door was knocked at again. He opened it and found the same little girl outside. But this time she was holding two 15   . She said, "My grandma told me the new neighbor 16   might need candles. She sent me here to give you these. " Terry was 17 by what he saw. When he became fully 18 ，he said, "Thank you and your grandma. God bless you！”

  At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his 19in life. It was his coldness and harshness(刻薄)with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was actually 20 else but himself,for his eyes had been covered by his cold mind.

(   ) 1. A. excited    B. pleased C. disappointed    D. puzzled

(   ) 2. A. drove    B. removed    C. moved    D. hoped

(   ) 3. A. morning    B. evening   C. noon    D. midnight

(   ) 4. A. picking    B. tidying up C. turning up    D. throwing up

(   ) 5. A. out    B. away       C. down    D. off

(   ) 6. A. recognizing    B. remembering C. missing    D. forgetting

(   ) 7. A. helplessly    B. hopelessly C. carelessly    D. uselessly

(   ) 8. A. voices    B. shots      C. shouts    D. knocks

(  ) 9. A. find    B. know      C. recognize    D. like

(   ) 10. A. disturbed    B. questioned   C. forgotten    D. discovered

(   ) 11. A. courageous    B. shy     C. brave    D. joyful

(   ) 12. A. quietly    B. pleasantly    C. rudely    D. repeatedly

(   ) 13. A. No sooner    B. Hardly     C. No matter    D. No later

(   ) 14. A. as        B. while     C. before    D. when

(   ) 15. A. bulbs    B. candles      C. lamps    D. lights

(   ) 16. A. upstairs    B. downstairs    C. next doors    D. across

(   ) 17. A. frightened    B. upset     C. annoyed    D. struck

(   ) 18. A. active        B. aware     C. certain    D. lost

(   ) 19. A. business    B. career     C. failure    D. success

(   ) 20. A. everybody    B. somebody     C. anybody    D. nobody

Answer 1

1-5 CCBBA      6-10 DADBA 

11 -15 BCADB 16 -20 BDBCD

本文讲述了一位自私的中年皮革商通过小女孩送蜡烛一事改变了自己人生态度的故事。

1. C通过"a bad-tempered and disappointed man"可以看出他对这个城市很"失望"。

2. C这里应该是"举家搬迁"的意思，所以选moved ₀

3. B通过下文需要蜡烛可以看出时间是晚上，但不可能是午夜，因为不符合小女孩送蜡烛的情景。

4. B新家需要"收拾"一下。tidy up,意为"打扫整理"。

5. A go out"熄灭"。

6. D此处表示Terry"后悔"忘了带蜡烛。

7. A没电又没蜡烛，他只好无助地待在漆黑的房子里面。

8. D根据下文"He went to the door and opened it impatiently."看，这里为"敲门声"。

9. B Terry初来乍到，不"认识"别人。

10. A这里要体现Terry自私的一面，和第一段呼应。

11. B通过第二段light,hesitant两个词可以看出小女孩很文静"害羞"。

12. C这里继续体现Terry自私的一面，为后文的反差埋下伏笔。

13. A no sooner... than...为固定句型，表示"一.. 就... "。

14. D这里的when表示突然发生。

15. B通过后一句话可以看出小女孩送来的是"蜡烛"。

16. B通过第三段"the girl went up"可以看出小女孩住楼上,Terry住楼下。

17. D Terry被小女孩的善意触动了内心， strike这里意为"打动"。

18. B回过神来。

19. C failure呼应第一段"repeated failures in career"的信息₀

20. D生活中欺骗他的是他自己，而非别人。