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　　Electricity is such a part of our everyday life that we rarely think twice when we turn on the lights or TV. At night, roads are brightly ____1____, making people and traffic move ____2____. Colorful ____3____ have become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many ____4____ saving objects are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the beside ____5____ and are fast asleep, it is still working for us, driving our ____6____ ,or keeping our rooms at a normal temperature. Every day, trains take us to and from work, we rarely stop ____7____ how they run until something goes____8____.

　　

　　In the summer of 1959, the power station that supplies New York with electricity was ____9____ order. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, ____10____ to do anything. ____11____ stopped working. So that even if you were lucky enough not to be ____12____ between two floors, you had the tiring ____13____ of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. People were afraid to leave homes, for they were just as ____14____ as anybody else, although the police had been ordered to ____15_____ by in case something unexpected should happen.

　　At the same time, ____16_____ disorder happened in the home, _____17______ rooms became stoves, fish and meat remained uncooked in the pots, and people sat ____18____ and frightened in the dark. One of the strangest things was that some fifty ____19____ people led many sighted workers home. When the electricity came on again, _____20_____ a person in the city can have turned on a switch without thinking how great a servant he had at his finger tips.

 

(1)A.repaired	B.oiled	C.lit	D.swept
(2)A.highly	B.free	C.freely	D.heavily
(3)A.lives	B.clothes	C.objects	D.streetlights
(4)A.labor	B.money	C.time	D.bank
(5)A.TV	B.lamps	C.beds	D.rooms
(6)A.fridges	B.cars	C.toys	D.mind
(7)A.seeing	B.thinking	C.to 　　 see	D.to 　　 think
(8)A.well	B.bad	C.wrong	D.good
(9)A.in	B.under	C.beyond	D.out 　　 of
(10)A.powerless	B.powerful	C.ready	D.hopeless
(11)A.Lifts	B.Workers	C.Motors	D.Telephones
(12)A.living	B.trapped	C.shocked	D.stepping
(13)A.body	B.career	C.task	D.work
(14)A.helpless	B.helpful	C.hopeless	D.hopeful
(15)A.live	B.pass	C.stand	D.sit
(16)A.greater	B.less	C.similar	D.different
(17)A.Small	B.Large	C.Hot	D.Cool
(18)A.impatient	B.excited	C.disappointed	D.nervous
(19)A.deaf	B.old	C.blind	D.lame
(20)A.many	B.hardly	C.only	D.nearly

Answer 1

答案：C;C;D;A;B;A;D;C;D;D;A;B;C;A;C;C;D;A;C;B
解析：

1．Lit（1ight）“照亮”。其余各项尽管能使句意勉强，但不合文意。

2．freely“自由地（行动）”，free“免费”，heavily与people不搭配。

3．colorful lives/clothes/objects尽管是对的，但不合文意。

4．labor saving“省力的”。time saving“省时的”。

5．关掉床头灯而入睡。

6．driving的逻辑主语是it(electricity)，故只能选择A，不能选B。

7．我们很少停下来想一想火车是怎么跑起来的。stop thinking“不想”，stop to think“停下来想一想”。

8．something goes wrong，起到了启下的作用。

9．out of order=going wrong．not working。

10．被关在黑暗的车厢里，对什么都无能为力。

11．谈的是电梯(electric lift)。

12．be trapped between two floors四个选项的短语动词所表达的意思不同，句意为“被困在两楼层之间”。

13．电梯停了。即使你幸运没被困在两楼层之间，人也得面临这样令人疲惫不堪的任务：摸索着走下数百阶楼梯。

14．因为他们与其他人一样孤立无助。（因为整个街一片黑暗）。

16．上段说的是户外混乱情况，本段讲的是家庭混乱情况。家庭混乱充其量与公共场所相似(Similar)，不可能比之更严重(greater)。

17．由上下文知。

18．impatient“不耐烦的，是停电造成的烦躁、期待心情”。

19．这是一般生活常识，且与sighted相对。

20．当电又来了，人们找开开关的时候，全城几乎没有一个人不想到手指尖上的这个奴仆是多么伟大啊！