Question

One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square, when Susan’s cane(手杖) slipped on the ice. Her face   36  first into the mud. David   37  her mother’s side, “Are you all right, Mom”  38 , Susan pulled herself up, “I’m okay, Honey,” she said.
Susan was falling more   39  since she had trouble walking. Every inch of ice was a   40  danger for her. “I wish I could do something,” the boy thought. David, too, was having   41  of his own. The boy had a speech problem, so at school he talked   42 .
　　One day, David’s teacher announced a   43  homework. "Each of you is going to come up with an   44 ," she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA", a national competition to encourage creativity in children.
　　An idea   45  David one evening. If only his mother’s cane didn’t slip on the ice. “What if I   46  your cane to a nail coming out of the bottom” he asked his mother.
　　“  47  the sharp end would scratch(劃破) floors,” Susan said.
　　“No, Mom, I   48  make it like a ball-point pen. You take your hand off the button and the   49  returns back up.” Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father   50  as Susan used it to walk 50 feet about the   51 . Happily Susan cried out, “It   52  !”
　　In July 1999, David was  53  national winner for the "INVENT AMERICA". David began to make public appearance. Thus he was forced to communicate  54 .Today, David is nearly free of his speech problem, and his   55  is becoming well accepted.

1. A. fell	B. touched	C. lay	D. dropped
2. A. stood by	B. rushed to	C. looked at	D. ran around
3. A. Firmly	B. Easily	C. Quickly	D. Shakily
4. A. slowly	B. frequently	C. freely	D. heavily
5. A. hiding	B. certainly	C. possible	D. waiting
6. A. method	B. disease	C. trouble	D. hope
7. A. few	B. little	C. much	D. more
8. A. useful	B. strange	C. common	D. special
9. A. appearance	B. invention	C. experience	D. experiment
10. A. reminded	B. encouraged	C. occurred	D. hit
11. A. fastened	B. stuck	C. fixed	D. tied
12. A. So	B. And	C. For	D. But
13. A. might	B. would	C. did	D. need
14. A. pen	B. hand	C. cane	D. nail
15. A. watched	B. supported	C. noticed	D. helped
16. A. street	B. ice	C. yard	D. square
17. A. works	B. operates	C. succeeds	D. helps
18. A. declared	B. received	C. won	D. praised
19. A. more slowly	B. more carefully	C. more clearly	D. faster
20. A. cane	B. mother	C. speech	D. story

 

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題1】B
【小題1】D
【小題1】B
【小題1】C
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【小題1】A
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解析【小題1】A fall“摔倒”，過去式fell。
【小題1】B 看到媽媽摔倒，兒子“沖到”媽媽的身邊。
【小題1】D Shakily“顫抖地”，兒子著急和擔心媽媽。
【小題1】B 因為走路有困難，摔倒得更“頻繁”了。
【小題1】C 每走一步都有摔倒的可能，每塊兒冰都是可能的危險。
【小題1】C 有他自己的困難，根據句意，選C。
【小題1】B David有語言問題，故在學校說話“很少”。
【小題1】D 根據文意，為"INVENT AMERICA"而做的發明創造，故，老師布置的應該是一項特殊的作業。
【小題1】B 每人想一項發明，參加比賽。
【小題1】D occur to sb.譯為“……浮現在某人腦海里”，hit“擊中”，在此意為“使想起”。
【小題1】C fix“固定”，“把……固定到……上”fix … to…
【小題1】D 媽媽比賽了擔心“鋒利的末段會劃破地板”，是轉折，用but。
【小題1】B would是情態動詞，表示將要。
【小題1】D 根據上文“to a nail coming out of the bottom”可知，選D. nail。
【小題1】A 父子倆看著她走，watched表示較長時間的“觀看，觀察”。
【小題1】B walk about“來回走動”，新發明的拐杖被拿來在冰上試驗。
【小題1】A 固定用法，work常被用作“起作用”之意。
【小題1】A declare“宣布，聲明”，一般指公開性的宣布。
【小題1】C 成為公眾人物后，作者不得不改善自己的語言，要使演講更“清晰”一些。
【小題1】C 克服語言障礙后，他的演講變得很精彩。