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　　Every night she listened to her father going around the house, looking at the doors and windows. She heard the back door closed, she could hear the fastener of the front window click, and the restless pad of his feet going back to try the front door. It wasn't only the outside doors he locked. He locked the empty kitchen too. He was locking something out, but obviously it was something capable of entering into his first defenses. He raised his second line all the way up to bed.

　　In fourteen years, she thought unhappily, the house would be his. He had paid twenty-five pounds down and the rest he was paying month by month as rent. Of course, he was in the habit of saying,“yes,”he repeated,“I've improved the property,”looking around for a nail to drive in, a weed to uproot. It was more than a sense of property; it was a sense of honesty. Some people who bought their homes through the society let them go to rack and ruin and then cleared out.

　　She stood with her ear against the wall, a small, dark, angry, immature(不成熟)figure. There was no more to be heard from the other room; but in her inner ear she still heard the foot-steps of a property owner, the tap-tap of a hammer, the scrape of a spade, the whistle of radiator(散热器)steam, a key turning, a bolt pushed home, the little busy sounds of men building barriers(栏栅). She stood lost in thought.

(1)The underlined word“pad”in the first paragraph most probably means ________.

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A．footprint　　　　　　　B．footstep

C．locking the door　　　　D．kicking the door

(2)Which of the following feeling does the passage lead you believe?

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A．Tenseness.　　　　B．Disappointment.

C．Peace　　　　　　D．Happiness.

(3)From the passage we can see that the father is ________?

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A．kind to his daughter and neighbors

B．cruel to his daughter and neighbors

C．not easy to change his mind.

D．careful about his appearance.

(4)All of the following are TRUE EXCEPT that ________.

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A．the father built his defenses carefully

B．Some property owners let their homes go worse

C．the daughter was not very developed

D．the father punished the girl when she was young

Answer 1

答案：B;A;C;D
解析：

(1)“the restless pad of his feet”可译为“他的闲不住的脚步”。 　　(2)通篇体现出忙碌而紧张的气氛。tenseness意为“紧张”。 　　(3)女孩的父亲有一种发家致富的信念，每天晚上都这样做，他是不容易改变主意的。 　　(4)本文没有交待父亲惩罚他的女儿。