题目内容

8、It's Saturday morning. Tony's sitting at the kitchen table,   1   into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even   2  . Is he ill? No, but he does have a   3 . He has nothing to do because the Internet is down.

     When he   4   up this morning, Tony was feeling   5  . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend   6  . It would be a weekend like any other -- a great weekend. But that was  7   he turned on his computer and   8   he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.

     Every weekend, Tony  9  go online to email friends, read the news to   10   what's happening in the world and play a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to   11   the weekend off. The perfect weekend -- online!

     Just as Tony is   12   how he can possibly have a   13   weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the   14  . "Cheer up, Tony. Don't think about the Internet any more, OK?" Tony makes no answer but   15  . "Go and play chess with Helen!" Tony's mum   16  .

     "Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the   17  . We can meet and play chess face to face for a   18  . Maybe this weekend won't be so bad." Tony   19, as he walks to the phone. There is life  20  the Internet after all.

1．A．getting                 B．staring            C．turning           D．coming

2．A．hungry               B．angry             C．tired            D．sleepy

3．A．problem            B．fear               C．business         D．thing

4．A．rose               B．rang             C．looked            D．woke

5．A．great               B．disappointed       C．unhappy         D．worried

6．A．also               B．above             C．ahead              D．ago

7．A．after               B．before            C．until             D．when

8．A．thought            B．guessed          C．decided        D．found

9．A．will                B．can              C．ought to         D．should

10．A．put up with       B．keep up with      C．live up to        D．concern about

11．A．pay              B．take              C．finish           D．put

12．A．proving          B．wondering       C．realizing           D．remembering

13．A．secret           B．difficult           C．normal          D．strange

14．A．living-room       B．hall                 C．kitchen          D．study

15．A．sighs            B．cries             C．shouts           D．apologizes

16．A．requests          B．replies            C．tells              D．suggests

17．A．edge             B．distance           C．corner            D．end

18．A．chat                B．time                 C．lesson               D．change

19．A．continues         B．smiles             C．reads          D．watches

20．A．with             B．about             C．against                                  D．beyond