The 1____ picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his 2____, who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously 3_____ of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 4 _____ on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling(飒飒地响).
They 5 _____ sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6 ____ came, right there in the living room. Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7 ____ her shoulder at once, startled(吓一跳), 8_____. It was 9 _____.Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10_____ floor and blurted out(脱口而出), “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”
The father started to say something. Then he muttered(嘀咕), “ Sorry, I 11_____ it and it fell.”
“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.
Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your 12 ____ in the windowpane(玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly13____. Why did you say…?”
The father 14____, “What then would you 15____ as the cause of its fall?”
“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven(不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr Li put it there.”
“It won’t 16_____, girl. It sounds more 17_____ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you 18_____them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was 19_____ in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you 20____ it only this way?”
“Only this way,” the father said.
小题1: | A.owner | B.host | C.guest | D.master |
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小题2: | A.friends | B.neighbors | C.children | D.guests |
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小题3: | A.knowing | B.remembering | C.hearing | D.thinking |
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小题5: | A.enjoyed | B.remained | C.imagined | D.hated |
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小题6: | A.stranger | B.host | C.crash | D.noise |
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小题7: | A.around | B.at | C.behind | D.over |
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小题8: | A.staring | B.watching | C.shouting | D.crying |
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小题9: | A.helpless | B.exciting | C.strange | D.terrible |
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小题10: | A.broken | B.streaming | C.dirty | D.flooded |
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小题11: | A.touched | B.used | C.hit | D.moved |
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小题12: | A.faced | B.shadow | C.reflection | D.action |
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小题13: | A.calm | B.still | C.silent | D.straight |
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小题14: | A.shouted | B.murmured | C.laughed | D.repeated |
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小题15: | A.tell | B.make | C.accept | D.give |
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小题17: | A.comfortable | B.friendly | C.acceptable | D.agreeable |
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小题18: | A.defend | B.support | C.discuss | D.argue |
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小题19: | A.kept | B.shut | C.worried | D.lost |
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小题20: | A.do | B.explain | C.make | D.manage |
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