When I woke next morning, I was dying of _36__. I seemed to have a hole instead of a _37__. I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper I had ever seen ! _38_ , I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better __39__ there than in any other hotel; and that was _40__ I wanted just then.
The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs I had prepared __41__ carefully for what I must __42_. I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure __43__ “breakfast” really meant “breakfast”. I had tried to get the right _44_ and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached.
The waiter asked me _45__ I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a _46 way. so I repeated it. Still he did not understand. It was _47_ that English people didn’t understand their language.. The waiter _48__ his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter--- enough to feed a small army--- and went away. But I was hungry, and I left __49__. When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little __50__, but you can never __51_. What a waiter’s face really shows. In another minute he brought _52__ tray with some bacon(熏肉) and some eggs. He _53_ have misunderstood me , but I thought it was no use explaining to people who don’t understand their own language , so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate.
Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way slowly to my room- at least five pound __54_. I never believed until then that any meal could _55__ me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).
36. A hunger | B. cold | C.. anger | D. illness |
37. A. stone | B. head | C. breast | D. stomach |
38. A. Therefore | B. Otherwise | C. So | D. However |
39. A. received | B. fed | C. cared | D. eating |
40. A. just | B. what | C. that | D. why |
41. A. English | B. meal | C. questions | D. myself |
42. A. speak | B. answer | C. say | D. explain |
43. A. that | B. about | C. of | D. to |
44. A. pronunciation | B. meaning | C. form | D. spelling |
45. A. whether | B. something | C. when | D. what |
46. A. surprised | B. friendly | C. puzzled | D. touched |
47. A. unbelievable | B. true | C. thought | D. a pity |
48. A waved | B. shook | C. bowed | D. patted |
49. A. much | B. a little | C. nothing | D. empty |
50. A. pleasure | B. surprise | C. pride | D. satisfaction |
51. A. tell | B. guess | C. design | D. express |
52. A. other | B. another | C. more | D. me |
53. A. should | B. might | C. would | D. must |
54. A. lighter | B. heavier | C. weightier | D. more |
55.A. hurt | B. fat | C. defeat | D. please |