单选题 As soon as the children were ______ , their mother got them out of bed and into the sitting room.
A. woke B. waken C. wake D. awake

【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 孩子们醒来后,妈妈让他们起床,并让他们去起居室。
[解析] 本题考查单词辨析,awake为形容词,意为“醒着的(作表语)”;woke和waken是动词wake的过去式和过去分词,不能作表语。而且根据句意,应该是孩子们自己醒来,不是被叫醒,故选D。