【推荐2】阅读短文,掌握其大意,然后从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
A man lived in a small village in Ireland. His name was Lusmore.
Lusmore is the Irish word for flower. He always had this flower on his hat, _______ people called him Lusmore. Lusmore had a big hump(驼背) on his _______. People didn’t like his hump and they said bad things about it. Lusmore was sad to hear that. The people were wrong because Lusmore was a good man. He often helped people in _______ and saved animals in danger. He also had a good _______ and he sang beautiful songs to others.
One day, he went to the market in town. He had to climb a hill on his way home. It was evening and soon it was dark. Lusmore sat _______on a hill and he looked at the moon and stars in the sky. _______, he heard someone _______ inside the hill. He listened carefully to the words, “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.” Then Lusmore sang the words, too, but with one more “day”: “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.” Soon the people started to sing _______ Lusmore happily. A door in the hill _______ and the people came out. They were small and had big ears. “Fairies!” said Lusmore.
One of the fairies came to Lusmore and she waved her hand at his __________ hump. “You haven’t got a hump now!” said the fairy.
Lusmore __________ his back. The fairy was right. That was the happiest day of his life.
A Man __________ Jack Madden who also had a hump heard about it. Jack was a bad man and he was always mean to __________. Jack sat on the hill and waited. Soon the fairies started to sing. Jack added two more “days” to the song. “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, __________.” “You like my singing,” said Jack, “Good! Now take my hump away quickly!”
The fairies were angry with him. One fairy waved her hand at Jack’s back and now he has a__________ hump. Then the villagers know that the fairies are nice to good people, like Lusmore.
1. 2. 3. A.need | B.school | C.business | D.money |
4. A.sound | B.noise | C.voice | D.bell |
5. 6. A.Sudden | B.Unlucky | C.Unluckily | D.Suddenly |
7. A.dancing | B.singing | C.playing | D.jumping |
8. 9. A.opened | B.closed | C.shook | D.locked |
10. A.beautiful | B.amazing | C.ugly | D.bored |
11. A.smelled | B.thought | C.touched | D.explained |
12. A.called | B.calls | C.calling | D.to call |
13. A.other | B.some | C.the other | D.others |
14. A.Monday | B.Saturday | C.Friday | D.Sunday |
15. A.smaller | B.bigger | C.cuter | D.slower |