Question

 Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failures in career made him a bad-tempered and disappointed man,often complaining that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so 1 with the city that he had to leave.

  So his family 2 to another city. It was the 3 of a weekend. When Terry and his wife were busily engaged in 4 their new home,the lights suddenly went 5 and they were forced to stop work. Terry regretted 6 to bring along candles and had to wait 7 in a bad mood. Just then he heard light, hesitant 8 on his door that were clearly heard in the quiet night.

  "Who's it?" he wondered. Terry didn't 9 anybody in the new city,and this was the moment he especially hated to be10 . He went to the door and opened it impatiently. At the door was a little girl,asking in a 11 voice, "Sir,do you have candles? I'm your neigh?bor.”"NO”， answered Terry 12 ? He shut the door and the girl went up. "What a nuisance！" he complained over it with his wife. " 13 had we settled down than the neighbor came to borrow things."

  He was angry about it 14the door was knocked at again. He opened it and found the same little girl outside. But this time she was holding two 15   . She said, "My grandma told me the new neighbor 16   might need candles. She sent me here to give you these. " Terry was 17 by what he saw. When he became fully 18 ，he said, "Thank you and your grandma. God bless you！”

  At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his 19in life. It was his coldness and harshness(刻薄)with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was actually 20 else but himself,for his eyes had been covered by his cold mind.

(   ) 1. A. excited    B. pleased C. disappointed    D. puzzled

(   ) 2. A. drove    B. removed    C. moved    D. hoped

(   ) 3. A. morning    B. evening   C. noon    D. midnight

(   ) 4. A. picking    B. tidying up C. turning up    D. throwing up

(   ) 5. A. out    B. away       C. down    D. off

(   ) 6. A. recognizing    B. remembering C. missing    D. forgetting

(   ) 7. A. helplessly    B. hopelessly C. carelessly    D. uselessly

(   ) 8. A. voices    B. shots      C. shouts    D. knocks

(  ) 9. A. find    B. know      C. recognize    D. like

(   ) 10. A. disturbed    B. questioned   C. forgotten    D. discovered

(   ) 11. A. courageous    B. shy     C. brave    D. joyful

(   ) 12. A. quietly    B. pleasantly    C. rudely    D. repeatedly

(   ) 13. A. No sooner    B. Hardly     C. No matter    D. No later

(   ) 14. A. as        B. while     C. before    D. when

(   ) 15. A. bulbs    B. candles      C. lamps    D. lights

(   ) 16. A. upstairs    B. downstairs    C. next doors    D. across

(   ) 17. A. frightened    B. upset     C. annoyed    D. struck

(   ) 18. A. active        B. aware     C. certain    D. lost

(   ) 19. A. business    B. career     C. failure    D. success

(   ) 20. A. everybody    B. somebody     C. anybody    D. nobody

Answer 1

1-5 CCBBA      6-10 DADBA 

11 -15 BCADB 16 -20 BDBCD

本文講述了一位自私的中年皮革商通過小女孩送蠟燭一事改變了自己人生態(tài)度的故事。

1. C通過"a bad-tempered and disappointed man"可以看出他對這個城市很"失望"。

2. C這里應(yīng)該是"舉家搬遷"的意思，所以選moved ₀

3. B通過下文需要蠟燭可以看出時間是晚上，但不可能是午夜，因為不符合小女孩送蠟燭的情景。

4. B新家需要"收拾"一下。tidy up,意為"打掃整理"。

5. A go out"熄滅"。

6. D此處表示Terry"后悔"忘了帶蠟燭。

7. A沒電又沒蠟燭，他只好無助地待在漆黑的房子里面。

8. D根據(jù)下文"He went to the door and opened it impatiently."看，這里為"敲門聲"。

9. B Terry初來乍到，不"認(rèn)識"別人。

10. A這里要體現(xiàn)Terry自私的一面，和第一段呼應(yīng)。

11. B通過第二段light,hesitant兩個詞可以看出小女孩很文靜"害羞"。

12. C這里繼續(xù)體現(xiàn)Terry自私的一面，為后文的反差埋下伏筆。

13. A no sooner... than...為固定句型，表示"一.. 就... "。

14. D這里的when表示突然發(fā)生。

15. B通過后一句話可以看出小女孩送來的是"蠟燭"。

16. B通過第三段"the girl went up"可以看出小女孩住樓上,Terry住樓下。

17. D Terry被小女孩的善意觸動了內(nèi)心， strike這里意為"打動"。

18. B回過神來。

19. C failure呼應(yīng)第一段"repeated failures in career"的信息₀

20. D生活中欺騙他的是他自己，而非別人。