文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。“我”给十四岁的儿子约翰买了一件很漂亮的二手外套,这让约翰发生了很大的变化,他变得更守规矩,更体贴,更渴望取悦别人,这是这件体面的外套让约翰想要使自己的内在和外在相匹配。
10 . My 14-year-old son, John, and I noticed the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. All the other coats drooped (低垂)______ this one looked as if it were holding itself up. The coat was beautiful, with a Fifth Avenue label and a (an) ______ price of $28, which was popular just then with ______, but could cost several hundred dollars new. The coat looked really nice because it was designed with a classic _______.
John wore the coat to school the next day and came home ______ a broad smile. “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said, ______ folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a ______ came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and reasoned discussion replaced fierce ______. He became more well-behaved and ______, eager to please. He would generously lend his younger brother his bike, which he ______ wouldn’t.
When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and ______ what caused the changes, she said laughing, “It ______ be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned ______ but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ______ a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly, ______ at John’s new height, assessing (评估) the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never ______ a person’s clothes for the real person within them. ______ there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for ______ what is on the inside to what is on the outside.
For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to life as it is to try on a ______. The whole world, the whole future is right ahead, a vast landscape where all the doors are open. And he could ______ himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.
1. A.unless | B.once | C.until | D.while |
2. A.unfair | B.expected | C.unbelievable | D.acceptable |
3. A.teenagers | B.adults | C.women | D.strangers |
4. A.color | B.price | C.style | D.hint |
5. A.taking | B.holding | C.bringing | D.wearing |
6. A.eagerly | B.obviously | C.carefully | D.quickly |
7. A.happiness | B.change | C.smile | D.matter |
8. A.doubt | B.complaint | C.argument | D.war |
9. A.thoughtful | B.handsome | C.healthy | D.curious |
10. A.gradually | B.additionally | C.normally | D.entirely |
11. A.concluded | B.explored | C.wondered | D.discovered |
12. A.could | B.must | C.should | D.would |
13. 14. A.showed off | B.turned out | C.came across | D.turned up |
15. A.looking up | B.turning down | C.burning up | D.taking up |
16. A.trust | B.mistake | C.exchange | D.regard |
17. 18. A.combining | B.connecting | C.matching | D.relating |
19. A.hint | B.coat | C.solution | D.behavior |
20. A.reflect | B.figure | C.believe | D.picture |