题目内容

1、In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing ever happened.

On a Friday night, a   21  young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the   22  was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them   23   their paces and put some money into his hat.

The next day, the young artist came again and put his hat on the ground gracefully   24  from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and   25  it on the ground. Then he   26  the violin and began playing.

Before long, he was   27  with people, who were all   28  by the words on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat   29  . Please come to claim it soon.”

Seeing this, it caused a great   30  and people wondered what it could be. After about half and hour, a middle-aged man ran there   31   and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, “Yes, it’s you. You   32  come here I knew that you’re an honest man and would   33   come here.”

The violinist asked the man some questions and handed a   34   to him. The man seized it, kissed it and then danced with the violinist.

The story   35  to be this: George bought a lottery ticket(彩票) a few days ago and won a prize of $ 500,000. When he passed by the violinist he put $ 50 into the hat. However, the lottery ticket was also   36  in. When the artist was   37  he found the ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to   38  it, he came back to where he was given the ticket.

Later someone asked the violinist, “You’re in badly need of money for your tuition fee (学费), why didn’t you   39  it for yourself?”

The violinist said, “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose   40  I won’t be happy forever.”

21．A．happy	B．proud	C．poor	D．rich
22．A．concert	B．music	C．song	D．sound
23．A．sped up	B．slowed down	C．turned down	D．put down
24．A．Interesting	B．Funny	C．Difficult	D．Different
25．A．laid	B．threw	C．set	D．fixed
26．A．repaired	B．watched	C．struck	D．adjusted
27．A．satisfied	B．surrounded	C．filled	D．crowded
28．A．attracted	B．struck	C．impressed	D．pleased
29．A．by accident	B．in turns	C．by mistake	D．on purpose
30．A．trouble	B．excitement	C．difficulty	D．disturbance
31．A．hurriedly	B．excitedly	C．happily	D．slowly
32．A．must	B．should	C．may	D．did
33．A．naturally	B．quickly	C．certainly	D．willingly
34．A．coin	B．violin	C．paper	D．ticket
35．A．turned up	B．turned out	C．turned down	D．turned off
36．A．thrown	B．given	C．taken	D．brought
37．A．taking up	B．making up	C．cleaning up	D．checking up
38．A．wait for	B．look for	C．beg for	D．hope for
39．A．hide	B．buy	C．take	D．own
40．A．audience	B．friendship	C．honesty	D．money

试题答案

1、21―25 CBBDA     26―30 DBACB 

31―35 ADCDB      36―40  ACBCC