作者：劉國超
A Life with Birds
For nearly 17 years David Cope has worked as one of the Tower of London's yeoman warders, __1__ known to tourists as beefeaters(倫敦塔守衛人). David, 64, lives in a three-bedroomed flat right at the __2__ of the Byward Tower, one of the gatehouses. "__3__ our bedroom we have a marvellous view of Tower Bridge and the Thames, " says David.
The Tower of London is famous __4__ its ravens(渡鴉), the large black birds which have lived there for over three centuries. David was immediately fascinated by the birds and when he was __5__ the post of Raven Master eight years ago he had no __6__ in accepting it. "The birds have now become my life and I'm always __7__ of the fact that I am __8__ a tradition. The legend says that if the ravens leave the Tower, England will fall to enemies, and it's my job to __9__ sure this doesn't happen!"
David __10__ about four hours a day to the care of the ravens. He has grown to love them and the __11__ that he lives right next to them is ideal. "I can __12__ a close eye on them all the time, and not just when I'm working." __13__, David's wife Mo was not __14__ on the idea of life in the Tower, but she too will be sad to leave when he retires next year. "When we look out of our windows, we see history __15__ around us, and we are taking it in and storing it up for our future memories."
1. A. more B. better C. sooner D. very
2. A. height B. summit C. peak D. top
3. A. Since B. Out C. From D. To
4. A. for B. because C. of D. by
5. A. made B. left C. got D. offered
6. A. regret B. delay C. hesitation D. choice
7. A. aware B. knowing C. pleased D. delighted
8. A. holding B. maintaining C. surviving D. lasting
9. A. take B. make C. have D. keep
10. A. devotes B. spends C. passes D. provides
11. A. reason B. chance C. opportunity D. fact
12. A. hold B. have C. keep D. put
13. A. Firstly B. First of all C. At first D. First
14. A. interested B. keen C. fond D. happy
15. A. every B. all C. much D. so
[答案與解析]
1. B。此處是well known的比較級。 2. D。at the top of... 意為"在......頂部"。 3. C。從房間可看到塔橋和泰晤士河的風景。 4. A。be famous for... 意為"以......聞名"。 5. D。此處指"提供一個職位"。 6. C。have no hesitation in doing sth. 意為"毫不猶豫地做某事"。 7. A。be aware of意為"意識到"。 8. B。maintain意為"保持", 其它選項用在此處語義不符。 9. B。make sure意為"確保"。 10. A。devote... to...在此處指"在......上花費時間"。11. D。他緊挨著渡鴉居住這一事實是很理想的。12. C。keep a close eye on意為"緊密注視"。 13. C。at first在此意為"起初;開始時"。 14. B。be keen on意為"熱心于"。15. B。all around... 意為"在......周圍"。
完形填空練與析
作者：毛穎坤
Miss Lovely began to work in our office last year. She thought she was__1__and hardly talked with us. Her house was a little far from our company and she had to go to work __2__ every day.
Of course, she had to spend a lot of __3__on this. She decided to have her own car, and began to __4__how to drive two months ago. Now she was able to drive, but had to__5__a licence before she could buy a car. It took her a week to__6__the traffic regulations. She was sure she would__7__the examinations.
It was finally time for her to take the examinations yesterday. Miss Lovely didn't come to work. We__8__she would drive her new car to our company this morning. But to our__9__she came here by taxi and didn't tell anybody about it. None of us asked her the__10__but her face clearly showed she had__11__in the exams.
This afternoon one of our workmates told us __12__had happened to the girl when she was__13__. Yesterday the chief examiner had asked her some questions, but she could answer only a __14__. For example, "Would you run over a man or a dog if you see them both in the middle of the__15__?"
"Of course I'd run over the dog, sir", Miss Lovely answered without __16__.
"I'm sorry to tell you, Miss Lovely," the examiner shook his__17__and said, "you have to take the examination again!"
"I don't think my answers were__18__, sir," the girl said in a hurry. "I__19__ run over a man, you know!"
"I agree with your__20__, Miss Lovely," the chief examiner said with a smile. "but why not brake (剎車)?"
1. A. old B. foolish C. clever D. kind
2. A. by taxi B. by train C. on foot D. by plane
3. A. time B. money C. energy D. room
4. A. teach B. plan C. operate D. learn
5. A. find B. apply for C. look for D. make
6. A. learn B. forget C. teach D. break
7. A. take B. prepare C. explain D. pass
8. A. suggested B. described C. thought D. replied
9. A. surprise B. joy C. anger D. pleasure
10. A. name B. reason C. rule D. notice
11. A. believed B. heard C. found D. failed
12. A. why B. how C. what D. when
13. A. ill B. alone C. in D. out
14. A. few B. several C. all D. lot
15. A. room B. playground C. hospital D. road
16. A. asking B. thinking C. discussing D. advising
17. A. foot B. nose C. ears D. head
18. A. wrong B. correct C. right D. true
19. A. can B. need C. can't D. needn't
20. A. car B. opinion C. fact D. purpose
[答案與解析]
1. C。由下文可知,此空應該填clever。Lovely認為自己很聰明,所以她很少跟別人說話。 2. A。她的住處離公司有點兒遠,她每天都得坐出租車上班。3. B。每天坐出租車她當然要花很多錢。4. D。她決定買車,所以她兩個月前開始學開車。 5. B。她會開車了,她在買車前得申請領取駕照。 6. A。她用了一周的時間記住了交通規則。 7. D。她很有把握自己能通過考試。 8. C。我們以為Lovely今天早晨會開著自己的新車來公司上班。 9. A。但令我們驚奇的是,她坐出租車來上班。 10. B 11. D。我們誰也沒問她這其中的原因,但她的臉色清楚地表明她沒有通過考試。12. C 13. D。今天下午當Lovely不在場的時候,我們的一位同事跟我們講了她所發生的事情。14. A。主考官問Lovely幾個問題,但她只能回答其中幾個問題。15. D。如果你發現路中間有一個人和一條狗,你是壓人還是壓狗? 16. B。without thinking意為"不假思索地"。 17. D。主考官搖搖頭,表示對Lovely的回答不滿意。 18. A 19. C。Lovely對自己過于自信,認為自己的答案沒錯,急切地說:"我不能去壓人吧!" 20. B。主考官同意Lovely的意見,但主考官微笑著說:"為什么不剎車呢?"
完形填空練與析
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作者：董瑾玉
To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your students, you must be __1__-speaking, with a good, strong,__2__voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to __3__what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
__4__a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class; he __5__the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his__6__, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express his__7__. Listen to him, and you will__8__the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always __9__according to what he is talking about. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't __10__that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important__11__between the teacher's work and the actor's. The__12__has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the__13__words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually__14__beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __15__on the stage.
A good teacher__16__in quite a different way. His students take an active part in his __17__: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don't __18__something, they will say no. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his students, which is in his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must __19__it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine__20__in class but unable to take part in a stage play because their brains wouldn't keep discipline: they could not keep strictly to what another had written.
1. A. clear B. slow C. small D. low
2. A. frightening B. fearing C. exciting D. pleasing
3. A. act out B. talk C. say D. repeat
4. A. Listen B. Look C. Watch D. Learn
5. A. stands B. sits C. lies D. talks
6. A. tongue B. words C. legs D. arms
7. A. attention B. thanks C. feelings D. sentences
8. A. hear B. see C. think D. guess
9. A. making B. changing C. expressing D. giving
10. A. tell B. express C. show D. mean
11. A. things B. differences C. points D. jobs
12. A. actor B. teacher C. boy D. student
13. A. different B. same C. above D. following
14. A. read B. known C. fixed D. written
15. A. natural B. bad C. false D. clear
16. A. is B. works C. has D. teaches
17. A. group B. party C. class D. play
18. A. give B. place C. obey D. hear
19. A. invent B. discover C. teach D. continue
20. A. learners B. watchers C. actors D. listeners
[答案與解析]
1. A 2. D。clear, good, strong和pleasing都是用來說明一位優秀的教師必備的條件。3. A。為了使意義表達得更清楚,教師必須能夠把所教的東西表演出來。4. C 5. A 6. D 7. C。觀察一位優秀的教師上課,你就會發現他不是一動不動地坐在全班學生面前,在整個教學過程中,他一直站著,他四處走動,借助雙臂、雙手和手指來解釋,面部表情表達著自己的思想感情。8. A 9. B。聽他講課,你會聽到他那抑揚頓挫、悅耳動聽的聲音總是隨著他所講的內容變化著。10. D
11. B。一位優秀的教師具有好演員的天賦這一事實并不意味著他在舞臺上確實能演好戲,因為教師的工作和演員的工作有著重要的區別。12. A 13. B 14. C 15. A。演員必須背臺詞,每次他扮演某個角色時,他都得準確地重復同樣的臺詞,甚至是他的舞臺動作和說話方式都是事先固定下來的,他需要做的就是使這些認真背下來的臺詞在舞臺上表演得自然些。16. B。一位優秀教師的工作則完全不同。17. C。學生們以積極的態度聽老師的課,他們提問、回答問題。18. C。前面已有提示詞obey。19. A。老師不可能把自己所教的內容都背下來,他必須創造性地教學。20. C。許多在課堂上是一位出色的演員的教師卻不能參加舞臺上的演出。
完形填空練與析
作者：谷寧
Some time ago, two navy officers made a journey to the deepest point on the earth. The two men went down seven miles to the__1__of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any__2__of life.
They set out early so that the ball would come to the surface in the__3__and so be easily found by the mother ship. The divers began__4__at dawn and soon afterwards the ball__5__under the surface of the water.
__6__, the temperature dropped to freezing point and the men trembled inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone__7__how they felt. At a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut__8__from the outside world. At 30,000 feet, the men were shocked by a sudden loud__9__- even the smallest hole in the ball would have__10__instant death. Luckily, it was only one of the outer windows__11__had broken.
Soon afterwards, the ball__12__the soft ocean floor, raising a big cloud of "dust" made__13__different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the __14__water. The men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them, quite__15__ by the very large water pressure. But they did not__16__to leave lights on for long, as the great__17__from them made the water boil. Quite__18__, the telephone began working again and the weak__19__ clear voices of the officers were heard on the mother ship. After a__20__of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later.
1. A. foot B. base C. bottom D. tip
2. A. marks B. signs C. signals D. messages
3. A. evening B. night C. secret D. daytime
4. A. diving B. rising C. traveling D. preparations
5. A. disappeared B. floated C. threw D. flew
6. A. In time B. On time C. At times D. At one time
7. A. guiding B. realizing C. describing D. imagining
8. A. down B. over C. off D. out
9. A. voice B. noise C. explosion D. shout
10. resulted B. suggested C. meant D. saved
11. A. where B. that C. which D. whose
12. A. touched B. visited C. attacked D. landed
13. A. of B. from C. up of D. into
14. A. green B. blue C. dark D. hot
15. A. unbelieved B. unchanged C. uncovered D. untroubled
16. A. use B. need C. dare D. think
17. A. light B. heat C. pressure D. sound
18. A. unexpected B. uncovered C. unknown D. uncontrolled
19. A. or B. and C. but D. either
20. A. living B. stay C. rest D. break
[答案與解析]
1. C 2. B。兩名海軍軍官乘坐一個小鋼球船潛入水下七海里至太平洋底部,想發現那里是否有生命存在的跡象。
3. D。根據下文可知,此處應該填名詞daytime, in the daytime意為"在白天"。
4. D 5. A。天一亮潛水員們就開始準備,之后不久鋼球船就潛入水下。
6. A。in time在此句中意為"過一段時間",而不是"及時"的意思。
7. C。describing是現在分詞作狀語,意為"描述"。
8. C。cut off是固定詞組,意"隔絕"。
9. B。由下文可知,此處是指"噪音",而不是"爆炸"。
10. C。鋼球船上甚至是微小的一個洞都將意味著(潛水員的)立刻死亡。
11. B。本句中的it was...that...是強調句型。
12. A。touched相當于landed on或reached。
13. C。鋼球船到達太平洋洋底時,由各種各樣的很小的死亡的海洋動物構成的一大團"塵霧"升騰而起。
14. C。由于洋底很深,陽光照射不到,故稱為dark water。
15. D。完全不受強大的水壓的干擾。
16. C。dare在此處是實義動詞。
17. B。本句中的them是指the lights, 強光發出的熱量會使海水沸騰。
18. A。unexpected是過去分詞作狀語,意為"完全出乎意料之外"。
19. C。潛水員聽到了從指揮船上傳來指揮官很小但很清晰的聲音。
20. B。在太平洋洋底逗留了三十分鐘后,潛水員開始返程,三小時后浮出水面。
完形填空練與析
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作者：趙明非
London's River Thames has twenty-seven bridges. Tower Bridge, the first bridge over the Thames as you travel towards London from the sea, is the__1__of them all. The thing that is surprising about __2__is that it opens in the middle. It does this to let the big ships__3__to the Pool of London. If you are__4__enough to see the bridge with its two opening arms high in the air, you will never forget it.
Tower Bridge is less than one hundred years old. It was built in the__5__. By 1850, everyone__6__that a bridge across the Thames near the Tower London which is almost a thousand years old was most necessary. But the__7__argued about the new bridge for about another thirty years. The argue lasted__8__long because of two problems. The new bridge must look like the Tower of London-everyone said so. It__9__not look like a modern bridge. But because of the tall ships it was__10__to have a modern design.
At last, two__11__designers had the idea of an opening bridge. And they made it look like the Tower, so everyone was__12__. It was a wonderful success. There was so much traffic on the river__13__the bridge opened at least twelve times a day. A hundred years __14__, the River Thames was London's busiest road.
Today big__15__don't come so far up the Thames. Tower Bridge opens perhaps only twice a week,__16__the same wonderful machinery is still working. It can still lift the two__17__opening arms-each 1,000 tons-leaving seventy meters for the ships to__18__.
And they can still open and close the __19__in one-and-a-half minutes. Things are changing now at Tower Bridge, but whatever__20__in its exciting future, Tower Bridge will always mean London.
1. A. widest B. highest
C. newest D. most famous
2. A. the river B. the bridges
C. London D. Tower Bridge
3. A. through B. over
C. under D. below
4. A. tall B. glad
C. afraid D. lucky
5. A. 1890 B. 1890s
C. 1890' D. 1890s'
6. A. agreed B. suggested
C. told D. hoped
7. A. travelers B. Londoners
C. builders D. designers
8. A. so B. not
C. very D. not so
9. A. dare B. need
C. used D. must
10. A. possible B. impossible
C. necessary D. important
11. A. clever B. foolish
C. careless D. troublesome
12. A. satisfied B. angry
C. surprised D. disappointed
13. A. where B. when
C. that D. which
14. A. ago B. later
C. before D. passed
15. A. cars B. ships
C. buses D. trucks
16. A. or B. but
C. and D. then
17. A. long B. heavy
C. shining D. wonderful
18. A. go over the bridge
B. go through
C. move quickly D. stop there
19. A. bridge B. river
C. tower D. ship
20. A. builds B. looks
C. happens D. opens
[答案與解析]
1. D。倫敦的泰晤士河上有二十七座橋,當你從海上向倫敦旅行時,泰晤士河上的第一座橋--塔橋,是所有橋中最著名的。
2. D。承接上文,此處指塔橋的令人驚奇之處。
3. A。介詞through表示"通過"。
4. D。如果你有幸看到橋張開雙臂高懸在空中,你將永遠不會忘記它。
5. B。in the 1890s或in the 1890's均指"在十九世紀九十年代"。
6. A。suggest后面接賓語從句時,從句中的謂語動詞應該用虛擬語氣;在A、C、D三個選項中,只有選項A語意最合適。
7. D。但是,設計者們為這座新橋又爭論了大約三十年。
8. A。爭論這么長時間是因為兩個問題。
9. D。must not在此意為"決不"。
10. C。但由于高大的輪船(在此通過),這座橋有必要進行現代化的設計。
11. A。聰明的設計者。
12. A。每個人對這一設計都感到滿意。
13. C。本句中使用的是so ...that...結果狀語從句。
14. A。一百年前,泰晤士河是倫敦最繁忙的交通路線。
15. B。根據上下文可知,此處指"輪船"。
16. B。此處表轉折關系。
17. B。從本句中的解釋"each 1,000 tons"可知,the opening arms是很"重的"。
18. B。留出七十米的距離讓輪船通過。
19. A。橋的開和關只用一分半鐘。
20. C。不管將來發生什么事,塔橋將永遠代表倫敦。