Question

The children have been playing with my hat ---they’ve knocked it out of _____.

A．shape

B．date

C．order

D．balance

Answer 1

A

本题考查名词词义辨析。句意：考查“out of+名词”。孩子们一直拿帽子玩，玩得都变了形”。从前文“你一直都坐在我的帽子上”可知“现在帽子严重变形了”；表示“变形了”或“不成样子了”应是out of shape。Out of date过时了；out of order出毛病了；out of balance失去平衡。