40. ,the Chinese
like staying at home watching TV at night.
A.Generally spoken B.General
to say
C.General tospeak D.Generally
speaking
.Ⅲ.完形填空(共20小题，每小题1分)
The 41
picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and
placed it on the small table in front of his 42 ,who were a father and daughter,and put the lid on the cup with a clink Apparently
43 of something .he hurried into inner room,leaving the
44 on the table
His two .guests heard a chest of drawers
opening and a rustling (飒飒地响).
They 45 sitting in the living-room,the
10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window.The
father was just about to take his cup when the 46 came, right there in the living-room.Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos,which had fallen to the floor .The girl looked 47 her shoulder at once,startled(吓一跳), 48 . It was 49
.Neither of them had touched it ,not even a little bit.
The sound caused
the host to rush back from the inner room .He looked at the 50 floor and blurted out,“It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t
matter!”
The father
started to say something.Then he muttered,“Sorry,I
51 it and it fell.”
“It doesn’t matter,”the host said.
Later, when they left the house,the
daughter said,“Daddy,I saw your 52 in the windowpane(窗玻璃).You were sitting perfectly 53
.Why did you say…?”
The father 54 .“what
then would you 55 as the cause of its fall?”
“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven (不平).It wasn’t steady when Mr. Li put
it there.”
“It won’t 56 ,girl. It sounds more 57
when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less
the more you 58 them.The truer
your story is ,the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was 59 in silence for a while .Then she said
,“Can you 60 it only this way?”
“Only this way.”the father said.
