Question

The Pecan Thief

When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather's farm in Kansas. Grandpa had sent me into the   36  to gather pecans for us to enjoy later.

Pecan picking was really   37  work and my little basket was only half full. I wasn't about to   38  Grandpa down. Just then something caught my   39  . A large brown squirrel was a few feet away.  I watched as he picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and   40  in a large hole in the trunk. A moment later the squirrel   41  out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut. Once again, he took the pecan back to his hiding place.

Not so   42  anymore, I thought. I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole. It was   43  with pecans! Golden pecans were right there for taking. This was my   44 . Handful by handful, I scooped all of those pecans into my basket. Now it was full! I was so   45  of myself. I couldn't wait to show Grandpa all the pecans.   46 , I ran back and shouted, “Look at all the pecans!” He looked into the basket and said, “Well, well, how did you find so many ? ” I told him how I'd   47  the squirrel and taken the pecans from his hiding place.

Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I'd been in observing the squirrel and his habits. Then he did something that   48  me. He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently   49  my shoulders.

“That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter   50  of food, ” he said. “Now that all of his pecans are gone, don't you think that little squirrel will   51  the cold winter? ”

“I didn't think about that,” I said.

“I know, ” Grandpa said. “But a good man should never take   52  of someone else's hard work.”

Suddenly I felt a bit   53 . The image of the starving squirrel wouldn't   54  my mind. There was only one thing I could do. I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.

I didn't eat any pecans that night, but I had something much more filling—the   55  of knowing I had done just the right thing.

1.                A．woods         B．rooms          C．holes D．roads

 

2.                A．dirty           B．hard           C．light D．easy

 

3.                A．settle          B．let             C．have D．keep

 

4.                A．sweater        B．basket          C．hand D．eye

 

5.                A．joined          B．lived           C．disappeared   D．discovered

 

6.                A．held           B．jumped         C．stood D．found

 

7.                A．secret          B．strange         C．anxious   D．patient

 

8.                A．filled           B．covered        C．rebuilt   D．decorated

 

9.                A．time           B．choice          C．achievement   D．chance

 

10.               A．afraid          B．ashamed        C．proud D．careful

 

11.               A．Otherwise      B．However       C．Therefore D．Besides

 

12.               A．followed        B．driven         C．protected  D．caught

 

13.               A．annoyed        B．satisfied        C．delighted  D．surprised

 

14.               A．off            B．beside         C．around    D．over

 

15.               A．cost           B．supply         C．support   D．preparation

 

16.               A．escape         B．spend          C．flee  D．survive

 

17.               A．place          B．notice          C．charge    D．advantage

 

18.               A．unconfident     B．guilty          C．embarrassed   D．nervous

 

19.               A．leave          B．open          C．cross D．occupy

 

20.               A．inspiration      B．expectation     C．satisfaction D．impression

 

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.B

4.D

5.C

6.B

7.A

8.A

9.D

10.C

11.C

12.A

13.D

14.C

15.B

16.D

17.D

18.B

19.A

20.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述爺爺讓我去樹林里撿山核桃。結果我把松鼠的核桃拿了回來，在爺爺?shù)慕逃�下，我又把所有的核桃都還了回去。

1.A從上下文知，我被爺爺派去撿山核桃，再結合第一句中的“farm”和選項可知我應該到樹林(woods)里去，而不是房間(room)，洞里(hole)和路上(road)。

2.B從后面的我才撿半籃山核桃可知，撿山核桃對我來說是一項挺困難的(hard)活，其他選項都不符合語境。

3.B 從下文知，我不想讓爺爺失望，此處let sb. down是固定詞組，意為“令某人失望”。

4.D就在此時，不遠處的一只棕色大松鼠引起了我的注意。catch one's eye表示“引起某人的注意”。

5.C那只松鼠撿起一顆山核桃向一棵樹跑去，最后消失(disappear)在樹干的大洞中。該句中的三個動作表承接：先pick up，然后hurry to，最后disappear。join“加入”，live“生存”，discover“發(fā)現(xiàn)”都不符合語境。

6.B該處表示：不久，那只松鼠又從洞中跳了出來(jump out)，故選A項。hold out“伸出，堅持”；stand out“突出”；find out“發(fā)現(xiàn)”都不符合語境。

7.A從后文中dashed over to the tree可知，作者認為松鼠撿山核桃不再是秘密了。

8.A我發(fā)現(xiàn)洞中到處都是山核桃，be filled with是固定詞組，意為“充滿著”，符合語境；be covered with“覆蓋”；be decorated with“用……裝飾”。

9.D當看到洞中有這么多的山核桃，作者認為自己的機會來了。

10.C 作者拿了這么多的山核桃，心里非常高興，當然很驕傲。be proud of“自豪，高興”，符合語境。be afraid of表示“害怕，擔憂”；be ashamed of表示“感到羞愧”；be careful of表示“小心”。

11.C此處表示我迫不及待地想把撿到的山核桃讓爺爺看，因此興奮地大叫起來，前后句構成“因果關系”，用therefore。otherwise“否則”；however“然而”；besides“除此之外還……”。

12.A我告訴了爺爺，我是如何跟蹤(follow)松鼠，從而找到這些山核桃的。

13.D此處表示爺爺雖然表揚了我，但他接下來做的事情讓我很吃驚(surprised)。

14.C爺爺用胳膊挽著我的肩膀，用介詞around。

15.B松鼠努力工作，收集了過冬食物，此處supply of food表示“食物儲備”。

16.D你把他的食物都拿走了，難道你沒有想過他在寒冷的冬天還能活下去嗎？survive“挺過”，符合語境。

17.D好人不應該利用(take advantage of)別人的辛勤勞動。take place of“代替”；take notice of“注意到”；take charge of“負責”，都與語境不符。

18.B爺爺說了這些話后，我突然有了一種負罪感(guilty)。

19.A那只松鼠挨餓的場景在我心頭揮之不去，所以用leave one's mind表示“離開……心頭”。

20.C此處表示作者為自己做了一件正確的事情而感到很滿足(satisfaction)

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