题目内容
【题目】根据所给中文意思完成句子,每空限填一词。
【1】我要迟到了。我己经等了近二十分钟的公交车了。
I’ll be late. I have __________ ___________ the bus for about 20 minutes.
【2】他编了一个借口,但没有人信。
He __________ ___________ an excuse, but no one believed it.
【3】他们决定开个会,以查明真相。
They decided to hold a meeting to __________ ___________ the truth.
【4】难怪他生气了。
__________ ___________ he was angry.
【5】他亲自前往纽约领奖。
He went to New York to receive the award __________ ___________
【答案】
【1】 waited for
【2】 made up
【3】 find out
【4】 No wonder
【5】 in person
【解析】
【1】我要迟到了。我己经等了近二十分钟的公交车了。根据wait for---等待---,根据have可知用现在完成时态;故填(1). waited (2). for
【2】他编了一个借口,但没有人信。根据make up编造,根据believed it.可知是过去时态;故填(1). made (2). up
【3】他们决定开个会,以查明真相。根据find out弄清楚,查明,根据不定式符号to后用动词原形;故填(1). find (2). out
【4】难怪他生气了。根据no wonder难怪,不足为奇;故填(1). No (2). wonder
【5】他亲自前往纽约领奖。根据in person亲自,本人,do sth in person亲自做某事;故填(1). in (2). person
【题目】 Has anyone told you that it’s fun to play with English words? For a long time these “words within words” in English have been used to surprise and educate us…and they often make us laugh too. Now we go to learn about them.
Riddles(谜语) How did the animals open the zoo door? They used a monkey! What’s the longest word in English? Smiles—there’s a “mile” between the first and last letters! These jokes —a question followed by a surprising answer — are known as “riddles”. But the ones above are examples of a special kind of riddle, a riddle which is funny because a word is hidden within another word. Many English speakers are crazy about this kind of words with double meaning. And it can be found in texts written in English a very long time ago. But riddles are not the only example of “words within words”. |
Hidden words During Victorian times (1837—1901), the game of hiding words within a whole sentence became popular. Look carefully at this sentence—The king eats his lunch in a fine palace. Can you see that the countries “China” and “Nepal” are hidden in it? The Victorians even used hidden words to teach children history and geography at school. Today we still see hidden word games in books and magazines, but we also use hidden words in jokes. |
Palindromes(回文词) Palindromes are words and phrases which can be read the same forwards and backwards. The pop group “Abba”, for example, is a palindrome. The sentence “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is also a palindrome. We find them interesting, but they can also be funny: I kept receiving emails about reading maps backwards, but then I realized it was just spam(垃圾邮件)! |
【1】Which of the following is a riddle?
A. step—pets, part—trapB. hiding words within a whole sentence
C. silent—listen, the eyes—they seeD. Which letter is a question? Y (Why) .
【2】By reading the article we can know “___________”.
A. Riddles are the only example of “words within words”.
B. Victorians even used riddles to teach kids history at school.
C. “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is a palindrome as well.
D. These “words within words” in English often make us cry.
【3】The best title of the passage is ________.
A. It’s fun to play with wordsB. “Words within words” educate us
C. Riddles & Hidden wordsD. The pop group “Abba”