Question

阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One evening, sitting at the window sewing, my mother called me, “Come here,” she said. “ 36 .” She held my head against her 　37 , and after a puzzled moment I felt a 38 foot drumming on my cheek. “You see?” she said, “It’s alive. You can 39 it, can’t you?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without 40 . It was as good a place for the baby to be as any other and I never 　41 about why it got in nor how it would finally get out.

A baby would come? I 42 noticed. That there were soon to be 43 of us would not make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe. 44 , certainly not a baby, could 45 that.

I was 46 , however. I soon found that things had 47 a great deal. I had never been the 　48 . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the 　49 . My sister had certain 50 because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much 51 boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that never came to me.

As he grew, it became 52 that my brother had been the center of everything. People smiled when they saw him. He made them happy 53 by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second 54 .He was so charming that he was immediately loveable. Later he also turned out to be 55 , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.

36. A. Look　　　 B. See　　　 　 C. Listen　　 D. Stop

37. A. stomach　 B. back 　　　　 C. side　　　 D. shoulder

38. A. strong　　 B. hard　　　　　 C. soft　　　 D. tiny

39. A. believe　 B. feel　　　　　 C. notice　　 D. touch

40. A. surprise　 B. delay　　　　 C. trouble　 D. effort

41. A. worried　 B. argued　　　　 C. regretted D. doubted

42. A. hardly　　 B. certainly　　 C. possibly　 D. willingly

43. A. two 　　　 B. three　　　　 C. four　　　 D. five

44. A. Anything　 B. Something　　 C. Nothing　 D. Everything

45. A. improve　 B. threaten　　　 C. compare　 D. prevent

46. A. curious　 B. careless　　　 C. wrong　　 D. anxious

47. A. improved　 B. changed　 　 C. increased　 D. disturbed

48. A. oldest　　 B. youngest　　　 C. cleverest D. dearest

49. A. family　　 B. house　　　　 C. middle　　 D. trouble

50. A. manners　 B. knowledge　　 C. opinions　 D. rights

51. A. admired　 B. blamed　　 　 C. respected　 D. favored

52. A. strange　 B. obvious　 　 C. serious　　 D. special

53. A. usually　 B. curiously　　 C. gradually D. simply

54. A. look　　　 B. smile　　　　 C. care　　　 D. comfort

55. A. ordinary　 B. perfect　　　 C. clever　　 D. similar

 

Answer 1

36---40 CADBA 41----45 DABCB 46---50 CBACD 51---55 DBDAC