Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，从方框中选择适当的词语填空，方框中有两个词语为多余选项。

rule, none, again, note, firs,t directly, another, set, out, gave up

One day, a student asked his teacher, "what is greed?" The teacher didn’t answer his question【1】 , but asked the student to walk through the chocolate factory next to their school and pick out the biggest chocolate bar（条、块） he could find．But there was a 【2】: as he passed through the factory, he could not turn back.

The student went to the chocolate factory. As he walked, he saw a large chocolate bar. He liked it, but thought he might be able to find an even bigger one if he kept going. He kept walking

and saw 【3】 chocolate bar. This one was a little bigger. But 【4】 , he thought he could find an even bigger one if he kept going. As he neared the end of the factory, he saw fewer chocolate bars, and 【5】 of them were as large as the earlier ones. He started to regret his decision to keep going. Finally, he 【6】. He went back to his teacher empty-handed and explained what had happened.

The teacher told him, “ You liked the 【7】chocolate bar, but you kept looking for a bigger one. And later, you realized that you had given up the best chocolate bar because you thought you could do better. That is called greed.”

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】directly

【2】rule

【3】another

【4】again

【5】none

【6】gave up

【7】first

【解析】本文讲了一位老师带一个学生去巧克力工厂，让他步行穿过工厂并沿途可以挑选巧克力棒，但前提是不能回头，结果最后男孩由于总想着前面的巧克力棒更大而一无所获。老师以此教育了学生，告诉了他什么是“贪婪”。

【1】句意：老师没有直接地回答他的问题。这里是说老师在听到学生的问题后，没有直接回答，而是让学生去做了一件事，使用副词“directly”表示“直接地”，填 directly。

【2】句意：但是有一条规则：当他穿过工厂时，他不能再回头。可以看到冒号后面的内容是一条规则，一种约定，故这里填rule。

【3】句意：他继续走并且看到另一个巧克力棒。看到一个巧克力棒以为自己还能找到更大的于是选择继续前行，所以再次看到的肯定是“另一个”（another）巧克力棒，故填another。

【4】句意：但是，再一次，他认为如果他继续前进，他会发现更大的一个。这里是心态的再次重演，他的想法没变，所以这里是“再一次”（again）这样认为，故填again。

【5】句意：当他接近工厂的尽头时，他看到的巧克力棒越来越少，没有一个像以前那样大。后面的“as large as the earlier ones”指“像前面的那样大”，外加后句中说他开始遗憾了，说明这里的情况不太好，没有一个（none）像之前的那样大，故填none。

【6】句意：最后，他放弃了。这里是说他的心情崩溃了，因为到最后反而没什么好的巧克力棒了，而且他也什么都没得到，所以他应该是“gave up”放弃了，动词要使用一般过去时，故填 gave up。

【7】句意：你喜欢第一个巧克力棒，但你一直在寻找一个更大的巧克力棒。这里是老师的话，在描述学生的行为，学生喜欢的是第一个，但一直在找更大的，故这里填first。