Question

【题目】阅读理解填词。

It was the beginning of the summer holidays and Marie and her brother Chris were going to stay with their grandmother for two weeks . They were on the train. They both loved t【1】 by train, you could sit and read, or just sit and look at the countryside . Next to Marie sat a woman of about fifty . She told them she had been v【2】 her daughter who lived on a farm, but they had gone into the nearest town, Boston, nearly every day.

“I don’t like the countryside much,” she told them. “It’s too quiet for me. Cities are much more i【3】, don’t you think?” Chris and Marie looked at e【4】 other. “I don’t know.” Chris answered. “You see, we live in a city, but we like to get a【5】 from it whenever we can. In fact we’re going to s【6】 two weeks with our grandmother now. She lives out in the country.”

The woman was s【7】 . “But I thought all young people liked cities,” she said. “There’s so much to do. What will you find to do in the country? Won’t you be bored?”

“Bored?” Oh no, we n【8】 get bored. We go for long walks with Granny’s two dogs. And we play baseball with the neighbors . And Granny always has lots of b【9】 for us to read, we always have a great time.”

“Oh, I see,” the woman said.

Before long Marie and her brother began to feel very tired. So first Chris, then Marie fell asleep.

Chris w【10】 up a few times, when his head fell against the window, but his eyes always closed again a few seconds later.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】traveling

【2】visiting

【3】interesting

【4】each

【5】away

【6】stay

【7】surprised

【8】never

【9】books

【10】woke

【解析】

本文讲述了Marie和哥哥Chris坐火车去乡下陪奶奶过暑假的旅途中遇见了一个女士，这个女士告诉他们自己喜欢城市不喜欢乡村，但是Marie和Chris一致认为乡村比城市好玩，因为在乡村可以做很多有趣好玩的事。

【1】句意：他们都喜欢坐火车旅行。

联系上文“It was the beginning of the summer holidays and Marie and her brother Chris were going to stay with their grandmother for two weeks .”可知，这是一次旅行，动词travel旅行；短语喜欢做……enjoy doing sth.，所以动词要用ing形式。故答案填traveling。

【2】句意：她告诉他们，她几乎每天都去看望她那在农场生活的女儿，但是他们已经搬去了最近的城镇。

根据句意表示看望，visit；根据句意可知每天并有可能继续看望她的女儿，表示现在完成进行时，所以动词要用ing形式。故答案填visiting。

【3】句意：城市更有趣得多。

联系上文“I don’t like the countryside much,” she told them. “It’s too quiet for me.”这个女士觉得乡村很安静，不喜欢乡村。可知，城市更热闹，更有趣，interesting。故答案填interesting。

【4】句意：Chris和Marie看着彼此。

根据句意表示相互，固定搭配each other。故答案填each。

【5】句意：你看，我们生活在城市，但是只要我们可以，我们喜欢逃离城市。

根据句意可知是逃离的意思，短语keep away from远离。故答案填away。

【6】句意：事实上，我们现在将要和奶奶待上2个礼拜。

联系上文“It was the beginning of the summer holidays and Marie and her brother Chris were going to stay with their grandmother for two weeks .”可知是和奶奶待在一起，stay with sb.和某人待在一起；be going to后跟动词原形。故答案填stay。

【7】句意：这个女士很惊讶。

联系下文“But I thought all young people liked cities,”可知，女士对他们喜欢农村的回答很惊讶，surprised惊讶的，修饰人感到很惊讶。故答案填surprised。

【8】句意：哦，不，我们不会厌倦的。

联系下文“We go for long walks with Granny’s two dogs. And we play baseball with the neighbors .”可知，他们在乡村有很多有趣的事情可以做，所以不会无聊，never绝不。故答案填never。

【9】句意：奶奶总是给我们很多书看。

根据句意指看书，book书，可数名词；lots of许多，后跟名词复数形式。故答案填books。

【10】句意：当Chris的头撞到窗户的时候，他醒了几次。

根据句意他的头撞到窗户时，可知是醒了的意思，短语wake up醒来；因为整个故事是发生在过去，所以用一般现在时，动词用过去式。故答案填woke。