完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The
____ picked up the thermos (热水瓶) and poured some hot water into the tea-cups and placed them on the small table in front of his
____, who were a father and a daughter. Obviously________ of something, the host hurried into the inner room, leaving the
____on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling (飒飒地响).
They
____sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the
____came, right there in the living room. Something was broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked
_____ her shoulder at once, startled (吓一跳),
_____ It was________
. Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the
____ floor and said immediately, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”
The father started to say something. Then he muttered (嘀咕), “ Sorry, I
____it and it fell.”
“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.
Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your
____ in the windowpane (玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly
______ Why did you say…?”
The father
____, “What would you
____ as the cause of its fall?”
“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven (不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr. Li put it there.”
“It won’t
____, girl. It sounds more
_____ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you
____ them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was lost i_________ for a while. Then she said, “Can you ________ it only in this way?”
“Only in this way, for sure.” the father said.
21. A.host | B.customer | C.guest | D.guide |
22. A.friends | B.neighbors | C.guests | D.children |
23. A.knowing | B.singing | C.hearing | D.thinking |
24. A.thermos | B.cup | C.apple | D.tea |
25. A.enjoyed | B.remained | C.imagined | D.hated |
26. A.stranger | B.host | C.voice | D.crash |
27. 28. A.staring | B.laughing | C.smiling | D.eating |
29. A.helpless | B.exciting | C.terrible | D.strange |
30. A.broken | B.streaming | C.clean | D.buautiful |
31. A.touched | B.beat | C.dropped | D.threw |
32. A.hands | B.reflection | C.legs | D.eyes |
33. A.calm | B.unmoved | C.stand | D.straight |
34. A.shouted | B.complained | C.repeated | D.laughed |
35. A.tell | B.make | C.accept | D.give |
36. A.work | B.open | C.close | D.indicate |
37. A.comfortable | B.acceptable | C.friendly | D.imaginable |
38. A.defend | B.support | C.discuss | D.argue |
39. A.darkness | B.ignorance | C.sadness | D.silence |
40. A.explain | B.do | C.make | D.manage |