Question

Ted spent seven years as a prisoner of war. There he discovered the power of    1    . For more than half of that   2   he was in isolation (隔绝). He lived for ten months in total     3    . Those ten months was the longest of his life. When they   4   with wooden boards the window of his little seven-by-seven foot cell, shutting out the light, he    5    if he was going to make it.
Ted spent hours a day exercising and thinking. But at times he felt he could do   6   but scream. Not wanting to give his    7    the satisfaction of knowing they’d    8    him, he placed clothing into his mouth to lessen the noise    9    he screamed at the top of his lungs.
One day Ted got down on the    10   and crawled (爬) under his bed. He found a hole that   11   air from the outside. As he approached the hole, he saw a    12    ray of light. Ted put his eye next to the wall and discovered a small crack in the building. It allowed him to glimpse   13   , though all he could see was a     14    piece of grass. But when he saw this, he felt a surge of joy, excitement and   15    that he hadn’t had in years. “It represented life, growth and    16    ,” he later said. It was the small hope that helped Ted    17    this nearly unbearable experience.
The human spirit is   18    . It seems to run forever    19    nothing but a faint (微弱的) hope. Without it, you have nothing. With it, nothing else   20    — even the worst conditions.
1. A. thought             B. scream            C. support               D. hope
2. A. prison                B. war                 C. time                   D. month
3. A. happiness           B. sadness            C. darkness              D. silence
4. A. strengthened         B. fixed               C. covered               D. broke
5. A. reminded            B. required            C. wondered             D. feared
6. A. something         B. nothing            C. everything            D. anything
7. A. soldiers             B. friends             C. enemy               D. army
8. A. wounded           B. quitted             C. satisfied              D. broken
9. A. till                 B. since               C. as                  D. after
10. A. window            B. floor               C. wall                D. board
11. A. let in            B. put out              C. took in             D. gave off
12. A. weak               B. soft                  C. strong               D. sharp
13. A. inside             B. outside              C. above               D. below
14. A. very               B. right                 C. specific            D. single
15. A. gratefulness      B. usefulness           C. fulfillment          D. establishment
16. A. courage         B. perseverance          C. choice              D. freedom
17. A. by              B. out                   C. over                D. through
18. A. straight         B. strong               C. lucky                D. interesting
19. A. against              B. from                  C. on                   D. over
20. A. matters         B. relates               C. changes            D. happens

Answer 1

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1. D。全文主旨是讲希望的力量。
2. C。that time指他在牢狱的7年时间。
3. C。根据后面的“shutting out the light”可知他完全生活在黑暗中。
4. C。根据后面可知，窗户被挡住了。
5. C。根据下文可知，他也有觉得忍无可忍的时候，因此这里是表示他不确定自己能否撑得过去。
6. B。根据句中的But可知，他有时除了尖叫，什么事都干不了。
7. C。根据文章第一段首句中的“spent seven years as a prisoner of war”及下文中的情景可知，此处指他不想让敌人(enemy)感到满意。
8. D。敌人挡住了窗户，是为了在精神上折磨Ted，因此这里选D，指精神上的跨掉。
9. C。as引导时间状语从句，表示他在尖叫时往嘴里塞上衣服以减弱发出的声音。
10. B。从下文的crawled under his bed可知，此处填floor。
11. A。let in意思是“允许……进入”，符合语境：外面的空气通过这个小洞进入牢房。
12. A。根据后面“a small crack in the building”，可知仅有微弱的光透进来。
13. B。Ted透过裂缝往外看。
14. D。根据前面的“though all he could see was”，可知这里表示他看到的仅仅是一块草地。
15. A。这里应选与与joy、excitement语境一致的词。
16. D。小草在牢房外，意味着自由。
17. D。through暗含度过某种困境的意思。
18. B。根据后面的“nothing but a faint (微弱的) hope”，可知这里表示人的精神的坚强。
19. C。run on表示“*……运转”。
20. A。该句中的it指代上文提到的hope，该句的意思是：没有希望，你什么都没有；有了希望，别的任何东西都不重要。matter是不及物动词，意为“有关系，重要”