Question

Mr. White is seventy years old. He has been staying at home since he retired. Last year his wife 41 .He was very sad. He has four children, but they all have their own families. Now he lives in an old house  42. Sometimes he feels lonely. One day, one of his children bought a parrot for him. It could  43 and usually gave it nice  44. But one afternoon, a cat ate the parrot. He was very sad and  45 to buy another one. He also bought a strong and beautiful cage for it and began to   46 it to speak. Every morning, as soon as he got up, he said“Good morning”  47 the bird. The bird had a look at him but said  48 . He kept on teaching it but the parrot didn’t learn anything. He felt sorry for it and lost his patience(耐心).

   One evening his  49  called and told him that his granddaughter was  50  in hospital. He went to see her  51 . When he got there, she was being operated(手術(shù)) on and he didn’t see her. The doctors asked him to go home. He was so worried about her that he couldn’t  52  the whole night. The next morning, when he was passing by the parrot, he  53  to say “Good morning” to the bird.

Suddenly(突然地) he  54  someone saying,“What happened to you this morning?” He looked  55 . There was nobody except himself in the room. It was the bird.

1.A. tired     B. went     C. left       D. worked

2.A. happily   B. alone    C. angrily    D. carefully

3.A. say       B. shout    C. tell       D. speak

4.A. house     B. clothes    C. food     D. words

5.A. asked     B. liked      C. hoped    D. decided

6.A. want      B. teach      C. have     D. with

7.A. to        B. with       C. at       D. about

8.A. anything  B. everything  C. nothing   D. something

9.A. parrot   B. friend   C. wife    D. son

10.A. ill    B. serious    C. bad    D. worried

11.A. at first   B. at once   C. all year round   D. all the time

12.A. wake up    B. stay up    C. sleep late   D. fall asleep

13.A. forgot    B. remembered    C. planned     D. stopped

14.A. thought   B. knew     C. heard    D. found

15.A. up     B. around      C. down      D. over

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.B

3.D

4.C

5.D

6.B

7.A

8.C

9.D

10.A

11.B

12.D

13.A

14.C

15.B

【解析】

1.此題考查動詞，根據(jù)語境可知他的妻子去世了。

2.此題考查副詞，live alone表示獨自一人住著。

3.此題考查動詞，根據(jù)語境可知鸚鵡會說話，故選speak。

4.此題考查名詞，考查固定短語give sb sth。意思是給他好的食物。

5.此題考查動詞，表示決定去買只新的。   

6.此題考查動詞，teach sb to do sth表示教某人做某事。

7.此題考查介詞，say sth to sb表示給某人說什么

8.此題考查不定代詞，根據(jù)語境可知雖然這個老人天天給他說，這只鸚鵡就是什么也不說。故選nothing。

9.此題考查名詞，根據(jù)上下文可知告訴他孫女病的人應(yīng)該是他的孩子。故選D。

10.此題考查形容詞，be ill表示生病住院。

11.此題考查名詞，根據(jù)上文可知他去醫(yī)院看望他的孫女。

12.此題考查動詞，根據(jù)語境可知他一晚沒睡。

13.此題考查動詞，根據(jù)語境可知，他應(yīng)是忘記了給鸚鵡說“good morning”

14.此題考查動詞短語，hear sb doing ath表示聽到某人做某事。

15.此題考查介詞，look around表示環(huán)顧一周。