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【题目】To a watching world, Mike and Mary Murray were a perfect couple. They had been high school sweethearts.

And they ______ to have a happy marriage. Mike had a good job, and Mary was able to ______ home with their children. They owned their home and ______ kids, two cars, and a family dog. ______ to Mike, after seven years of marriage, something was terribly wrong. The Murrays had ______ their material goals and Mike ______, “Now what?” He began to look to his job for fulfillment and often worked 60 hour ______. Mary poured herself into the children. It was so ______ for her to turn her focus from Mike to 6-month-old Eric and 2-year-old Brittany.

And now the marriage seemed ______. Their lives were traveling in two different directions. They no longer really communicated---yes, they answered ______ questions, but they didn’t talk ______ as they had in the early years of their marriage. Mike felt trapped. “I ______ had time to do things that I wanted to,” he said. Mike did not share his feelings with Mary. Instead, he followed the slippery path of many others---he became involved with (与……纠缠不清) a woman at work, who was ______ her husband. It began as a simple friendship. “I was able to listen and she was able to listen,” Mike recalls.

Mary ______ the battle in Mike’s soul. “He wasn’t home as much, and we weren’t talking as much, ” she said. “I was wrapped up in the kids and I just couldn’t imagine anything ever ______.” The situation became worse when the Murrays attended a wedding and began to argue. Mary asked Mike if he was seeing ______ and he said, “Yes. It’s just an emotional(情感的)thing.” Mike can still remember the ______ of hurt and total surprise on Mary’s face. She was troubled, and he knew that he had turned against his best friend ______ high school. The expression on her face jarred(刺激) him into ______, and he began to understand the ______ he was doing to his family.

【1】 A. happened B. appeared C. looked D. had

【2】A. live in B. study at C. stay at D. be out of

【3】 A. one B. no C. three D. two

【4】A. Luckily B. As C. Thanks D. But

【5】A. arrived B. reached C. got to D. made

【6】A. surprised B. understood C. wondered D. asked

【7】 A. a week B. for a week C. on a week D. over a week

【8】 A. difficult B. comfortable C. apply D. easy

【9】A. empty B. separate C. full of job D. true of life

【10】 A. simple B. surface C. scientific D. social

【11】A. at all B. anything C. heart to heart D. in pain

【12】 A. really B. likely C. always D. never

【13】 A. loved by B. separated from C. different from D. cared by

【14】 A. knew B. understood C. admitted D. had no idea of

【15】 A. to take place B. to happen C. happening D. done

【16】 A. her B. someone else C. the matter D. anything

【17】 A. look B. face C. feeling D. want

【18】 A. since B. from C. to D. of

【19】 A. fact B. reality C. her life D. his life

【20】 A. good B. wrong C. harm D. harmful

Answer 1

【答案】【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】D

【5】B

【6】C

【7】A

【8】D

【9】A

【10】B

【11】C

【12】D

【13】B

【14】D

【15】C

【16】B

【17】A

【18】A

【19】B

【20】C

【解析】【1】他们看起来拥有幸福的婚姻生活。

【2】丈夫在外面上班，妻子在家照顾孩子。

【3】由下文可知。

【4】根据上下文的逻辑联系，此处是转折关系。

【5】固定搭配，根据上文可知他们的物质目标已经达到。

【6】由下文可知，迈克的物质生活虽然充实，但精神生活却变得空虚。

【7】迈克每周工作60个小时以打发时间。

【8】妻子很容易把精力从丈夫身上转移到了孩子身上。

【9】根据第一段的叙述以及下文可知。

【10】他们平时只是回答一些表面的问题。

【11】上文中“They had been high school sweethearts”暗示，结婚的头几年，他们的谈话是诚恳的，贴心的。

【12】根据上文文意可知选D。

【13】这里指与丈夫分离的妇女。

【14】have no idea不知道。

【15】imagine后接动词-ing形式。

【16】与上文“he became involved with a woman at work”相呼应。

【17】与下文“The expression on her face”对应。

【18】与上文“high school sweethearts”对应。

【19】由上下文可知，应是“返回现实”。

【20】固定词组do harm to sb./sth.。