阅读下列短文,从文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
The doctor was very _______, when he arrived later that morning. Colin was sitting on the sofa looking at one of his books. He was talking to Mary.
“So, you were _______ last night, Colin,” he said.
“I’m better now—much better,” Colin answered. “I’m _______ out in my wheelchair soon if it is fine. I want some fresh air.”
The doctor left without saying anything else. That night Colin slept well. He _______ about the garden again, and Dickon and his animals.
Colin looked very _______ when Dickon gave him the new-born lamb early the next morning.
“What does it want?” cried Colin. “It wants its mother,” said Dickon, smiling.
He _______ a baby’s bottle from his pocket. He pushed the bottle into the lamb’s mouth. The lamb drank the milk, then it fell asleep.
Colin and Mary asked Dickon questions about the names of flowers. He knew _______ which ones were already growing in the secret garden.
“I’m going to see them,” cried Colin. “I can’t _______ it!”
The next day a strong servant _______ Colin downstairs and put him in his wheelchair. Dickon was waiting for him outside.
“You can go,” Colin said to the nurse and the servant, and they ________ disappeared. Dickon pushed the wheelchair ________ and carefully. Mary walked next to it. They went across the lawn to the long path near the wall.
“This is where I walked up and down ________ the door,” whispered Mary.
They walked a bit further, “The robin (知更鸟) flew over the wall here. And there,” Mary said, pointing under a big bush in the flower bed, “is where I found the ________.”
Then Dickon stopped pushing the chair.
“And look!” Mary moved the ivy branch. “Here is the door. Dickon push him in quickly!”
When they were inside the garden, Colin looked round and round. He saw the walls and the earth and the trees ________ their new green leaves. In the grass under the trees there were flowers. The sun was warm on his face. Mary and Dickon stared at him. He looked different. His face was ________, not white.
“Mary! Dickon! I’m going to get well!” he cried. “And I’m going to live forever and ever!”
——Taken from The Secret Garden
16. A.nervous | B.surprised | C.interested | D.sad |
17. A.ill | B.healthy | C.polite | D.wise |
18. A.running | B.taking | C.going | D.putting |
19. A.talked | B.dreamt | C.told | D.thought |
20. A.proud | B.bored | C.angry | D.excited |
21. A.borrowed | B.bought | C.took | D.made |
22. A.exactly | B.carefully | C.properly | D.quickly |
23. A.understand | B.know | C.catch | D.believe |
24. A.carried | B.pushed | C.pulled | D.drove |
25. A.neither | B.either | C.all | D.both |
26. A.quickly | B.slowly | C.quietly | D.heavily |
27. A.looking through | B.looking up | C.looking after | D.looking for |
28. 29. 30. A.gray | B.pink | C.yellow | D.purple |