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Electricity is such a part of our everyday life that we rarely think twice when we turn on the lights or TV. At night, roads are brightly ____1____, making people and traffic move ____2____. Colorful ____3____ have become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many ____4____ saving objects are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the beside ____5____ and are fast asleep, it is still working for us, driving our ____6____ ,or keeping our rooms at a normal temperature. Every day, trains take us to and from work, we rarely stop ____7____ how they run until something goes____8____.
In the summer of 1959, the power station that supplies New York with electricity was ____9____ order. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, ____10____ to do anything. ____11____ stopped working. So that even if you were lucky enough not to be ____12____ between two floors, you had the tiring ____13____ of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. People were afraid to leave homes, for they were just as ____14____ as anybody else, although the police had been ordered to ____15_____ by in case something unexpected should happen.
At the same time, ____16_____ disorder happened in the home, _____17______ rooms became stoves, fish and meat remained uncooked in the pots, and people sat ____18____ and frightened in the dark. One of the strangest things was that some fifty ____19____ people led many sighted workers home. When the electricity came on again, _____20_____ a person in the city can have turned on a switch without thinking how great a servant he had at his finger tips.
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(1)A.repaired |
B.oiled |
C.lit |
D.swept |
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(2)A.highly |
B.free |
C.freely |
D.heavily |
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(3)A.lives |
B.clothes |
C.objects |
D.streetlights |
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(4)A.labor |
B.money |
C.time |
D.bank |
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(5)A.TV |
B.lamps |
C.beds |
D.rooms |
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(6)A.fridges |
B.cars |
C.toys |
D.mind |
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(7)A.seeing |
B.thinking |
C.to see |
D.to think |
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(8)A.well |
B.bad |
C.wrong |
D.good |
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(9)A.in |
B.under |
C.beyond |
D.out of |
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(10)A.powerless |
B.powerful |
C.ready |
D.hopeless |
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(11)A.Lifts |
B.Workers |
C.Motors |
D.Telephones |
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(12)A.living |
B.trapped |
C.shocked |
D.stepping |
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(13)A.body |
B.career |
C.task |
D.work |
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(14)A.helpless |
B.helpful |
C.hopeless |
D.hopeful |
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(15)A.live |
B.pass |
C.stand |
D.sit |
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(16)A.greater |
B.less |
C.similar |
D.different |
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(17)A.Small |
B.Large |
C.Hot |
D.Cool |
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(18)A.impatient |
B.excited |
C.disappointed |
D.nervous |
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(19)A.deaf |
B.old |
C.blind |
D.lame |
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(20)A.many |
B.hardly |
C.only |
D.nearly |
解析:
1
.Lit(1ight)“照亮”。其余各项尽管能使句意勉强,但不合文意。2
.freely“自由地(行动)”,free“免费”,heavily与people不搭配。3
.colorful lives/clothes/objects尽管是对的,但不合文意。4
.labor saving“省力的”。time saving“省时的”。5
.关掉床头灯而入睡。6
.driving的逻辑主语是it(electricity),故只能选择A,不能选B。7
.我们很少停下来想一想火车是怎么跑起来的。stop thinking“不想”,stop to think“停下来想一想”。8
.something goes wrong,起到了启下的作用。9
.out of order=going wrong.not working。10
.被关在黑暗的车厢里,对什么都无能为力。11
.谈的是电梯(electric lift)。12
.be trapped between two floors四个选项的短语动词所表达的意思不同,句意为“被困在两楼层之间”。13
.电梯停了。即使你幸运没被困在两楼层之间,人也得面临这样令人疲惫不堪的任务:摸索着走下数百阶楼梯。14
.因为他们与其他人一样孤立无助。(因为整个街一片黑暗)。16
.上段说的是户外混乱情况,本段讲的是家庭混乱情况。家庭混乱充其量与公共场所相似(Similar),不可能比之更严重(greater)。17
.由上下文知。18
.impatient“不耐烦的,是停电造成的烦躁、期待心情”。19
.这是一般生活常识,且与sighted相对。20
.当电又来了,人们找开开关的时候,全城几乎没有一个人不想到手指尖上的这个奴仆是多么伟大啊!
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