题目内容
They questioned the ______ (准确性) of the information in the file.
accuracy
完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A friend in need
Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you 36 find in any neighborhood, these two 37 each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their own houses.
One evening, Brownie’s family 38 that Brownie hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him with no 39 Brownie didn’t appear the next day, and despite(尽管)their 40 to find him, by the next week he was still missing. Curiously, Spotty 41 at Brownie’s house alone, barking. Busy with their own lives, Brownie’s family just ignored the 42 little neighbor dog. Finally, one morning Spotty 43 to take “no” for an answer any longer. He followed Ted about, barking strongly, then running towards a nearby wood, as if to say," 44 me! It’s urgent!”
Then Ted followed the anxious Spotty. The little dog led the man to a 45 spot a half mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie 46 but one of his hind legs stuck in a steel leg-hold trap. Horrified, Ted now wished he’d taken Spotty’s earlier requirement 47 Then Ted noticed something quite remarkable. Spotty had done more than simply 48 Brownie’s owner to his trapped friend. In a circle around the 49 dog, Ted found some dog food, which was later 50 as the remains of every meal Spotty had been fed that 51 !Spotty had been visiting Brownie 52 in a single-minded quest to keep his friend alive by offering his own comfort. Spotty had obviously 53 with Brownie to protect him from being hurt, snuggling(依偎)with him at night to keep him warm and touching him gently with its nose to keep his 54 up. Brownie’s leg was treated by a veterinarian and he recovered. For many years afterward, the two 55 watched the faithful friends frolicking(嬉戏)and chasing each other down that well worn path between their houses.
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There is an old story telling about a woman whose only son died in an accident. In her 26 , she went to the wise man that is always 27 for his wisdom in her town and said, “What advice or what 28 ways do you have to bring my son back to life? I will 29 you with all I have if you can.”
Instead of sending her away or 30 with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard (芥末) seed from a home that has never 31 sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in 32 of that magical mustard seed.
She came first to a splendid apartment, 33 at the door, and said in a (n) 34 voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a (n) 35 that I want? It is very important to me.”
36 , she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of 37 . They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to 38 all the tragic things that recently had happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor, 39 people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own?” She 40 to comfort them till they 41 . Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But 42 she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one 43 after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so 44 in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for the special mustard seed, in fact, never 45 that it had driven the sorrow out of her life.
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A 26-year-old Montreal man appears to have succeeded in his quest to barter a single, red paper clip(夹子) all the way up to a house. It took almost a year and 14 trades, but Kyle MacDonald has been offered a two-storey farmhouse in Kipling, Sask., for a paid role in a movie.
MacDonald began his quest last summer when he decided he wanted to live in a house. He didn’t have a job, so instead of posting a resumé, he looked at a red paper clip on his desk and decided to trade it on an Internet website. The response was immediate —a fish pen was offered for exchange. MacDonald then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle.
In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He traded the stove to a U.S. soldier in California for a generator. Then he exchanged the generator for an “instant party kit” — an empty keg(小桶) and an illuminated Budweiser beer sign. MacDonald then traded the keg and sign for a snowmobile. He bartered all the way up to an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper, a KISS snow globe and finally a paid role in a Corbin Bernsen movie.
“Now, I’m sure the first question on your mind is, ‘Why would Corbin Bernsen trade a role in a film for a snow globe? A KISS snow globe,’ MacDonald said on his website.”Well, Corbin happens to be arguably one of the biggest snow globe collectors on the planet.
Now, the town of Kipling, Sask., Canada, with a population of 1,100,has offered MacDonald a farmhouse in exchange for the role in the movie. The town is going to hold a competition for the movie role.
MacDonald said: “There’re people all over the world that are saying that they have paper clips clipped to the top of their computer, or on their desk or on their shirt, and it proves that anything is possible and I think to a certain degree it’s true.”
MacDonald, who has attracted international media attention in his quest, said the journey has turned out to be more exciting than the goal. “This is not the end. This may be the end of this part of the story, but this story will go on.”
【小题1】The best title for this passage is “ ”.
| A.A lucky paper clip | B.From poor to rich |
| C.A lucky young man | D.From paper clip to house |
| A.to get something for free | B.to sell something at a price |
| C.to sell goods on the Internet | D.to exchange goods for other goods |
| A.Paper clip?snow globe?snowmobile?house |
| B.Paper clip?keg of beer?doorknob?snowmobile |
| C.Paper clip?camp stove?snowmobile?movie role |
| D.Paper clip?keg of beer?camp stove?snowmobile |
| A.All of his trades were done in his country. |
| B.A film role was offered due to Bernsen’s hobby. |
| C.They took over a year and some of them were really unbelievable. |
| D.The house in Kipling has been offered to MacDonald to attract media. |
| A.He wanted to gain fame through his quest. |
| B.His success largely depended on the Internet. |
| C.He never expected his aim could be achieved. |
| D.He intends to begin another quest on the Web. |