The manager of a small building company was very surprised to get a bill for two white mice one of his workmen had bought. He  11   for the workman and asked him  12   he had had the bill sent to the company.

   “  13  ,”the workman answered,“you  14   the house we were repairing in Newbridge, don’t you? One of the things we had to  15   there was to put  16   some new electric wiring. Well, in one place we had to pass some wires  17  a pipe thirty feet long and about an inch  18  ,  19   was built into solid stone and had four big bends in it. None of us could think how to do this until I had a good  20  . I went to a shop and  21   two white mice,one of them male and the other female. Then I  22  a thread(线)to the body of the male mouse and put it into the pipe at one end,  23   Bill held the female mouse at the other end and  24   her gently to make her squeak. When the male mouse heard the female mouse’s squeaks(吱吱地叫),he  25   along the pipe to help her. I  26   he was a gentleman even though he was  27   a mouse. Anyway,as he ran through this pipe,he pulled the  28   behind him. It was then quite  29   for us to tie one end of the thread to the electric wires and pull them through the pipe.”

   The manager  30   the bill for the white mice.

(   ) 11. A. waited      B. sent        C. answered     D. arranged

答案:B  send for 指“派人叫”,answer for “对……负责”。

(   ) 12. A. why       B. whether       C. how       D. when

答案:A

(   ) 13. A. Yes        B. Sorry       C. Well        D. Excuse me

答案:C  well 在这里表示语气的过渡或停顿。

(   ) 14. A. saw        B. mean       C. entered       D. remember

答案:D

(   ) 15. A. do        B. repair         C. buy       D. work

答案:A

(   ) 16. A. into        B. out        C. in        D. away

答案:C  put in 指装电线。

(   ) 17. A. near       B. through      C. around      D. onto

答案:B

(   ) 18. A. across      B. short        C. big       D. round

答案:A  据上文“a pipe”有“thirty feet long”,故这里指“about an inch across”宽。

(   ) 19. A. it         B. what        C. that        D. which

答案:D  这是一个非限制性定语从句,用 which 引导。

(   ) 20. A. idea        B. suggestion       C. way       D. advice

答案:A

(   ) 21. A. saw       B. bought        C. caught      D. exchanged

答案:B

(   ) 22. A. followed      B. held         C. tied       D. passed

答案:C  tie…to 把……拴/系在……上,固定词组。

(   ) 23. A. when       B. then         C. while      D. so

答案:C  while 在这里意为“在……同时”。

(   ) 24. A. put        B. pressed       C. took      D. played

答案:B  本句中“make her squeak”让她吱吱地叫,可知 Bill 在轻按或轻压,press gently

(   ) 25. A. watched      B. squeaked       C. rushed     D. waited

答案:C

(   ) 26. A. doubt       B. remember      C. suggest     D. suppose

答案:D  I suppose 我想,相当于 I think/believe.

(   ) 27. A. almost       B. more than      C. only       D. nearly

答案:C

(   ) 28. A. bends       B. pipe        C. female mouse   D. thread

答案:D  据上文“tie a thread to the body of…”故选D。

(   ) 29. A. easy       B. hard        C. interesting     D. unnecessary

答案:A

(   ) 30. A. paid        B. got        C. sent       D. returned

答案:A  pay…for 付……钱

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