单选题
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can be found very close. In the late 1920s, my mother ran away from home to {{U}}(51) {{/U}} my father. Marriage, if not running away, was {{U}}(52) {{/U}} of seventeen-year-old girls. By the time she was twenty, she had two children and was pregnant {{U}}(53) {{/U}} a third. Five children later, I was born. And this is how I {{U}}(54) {{/U}} to know my mother: she {{U}}(55) {{/U}} a large, soft, loving-eyed woman who was {{U}}(56) {{/U}} impatient in our home. Her quick, violent temper was on {{U}}(57) {{/U}} only a few times a year, when she {{U}}(58) {{/U}} with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school. She made all the clothes we wore, even my brother's {{U}}(59) {{/U}}. She made all the towels and sheers we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits. She spent the winter evenings making quilts {{U}}(60) {{/U}} to cover all our beds.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试及物动词。marry意为“结婚”,不论是娶还是嫁,都是及物动词,不用介词。作被动语态时接介词to不能接with(marry with the left hand“与门第低的人结婚”除外)。marry with(错误搭配);marry in(to)通过结婚而成为某家族的一员;marry above同比自己身份高的人结婚。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试被动语态。只有expected意为“期待”,可为被动。waiting意为“等待”;stayed意为“暂住”;impossible意为“不可能的”。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词和介词搭配。with意为“有”,pregnant with life/meaning/new ideas/a baby等,是固定搭配。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试同根词和时态的用法。因出生而认识了母亲,因此用过去时。come to know意为“渐渐(知道)”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试系动词。只有seemed有系动词功能。liked意为“喜欢”;performed意为“表演”;looked意为“看,瞧”。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试双重否定结构。rarely意为“罕有”,因为刚刚说母亲目光和蔼友善,用双重否定结构表达“耐心”,与和蔼一致。A、B、C三选项是三个同义词,属于要选皆选,要否皆否之列。frequently意为“频繁地”;always意为“总是”;often意为“经常”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试同义词辨析。母亲发脾气的次数有限,所以选view。on view意为“能看到的”;point意为“点”;mind意为“思想”;eye意为“眼睛”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试视觉抗干扰的能力。battle意为“抗争”。干扰项都与battle字形相近。bites意为“咬”;batted意为“用球棒击球”;barehanded意为“赤手空拳的”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试复合词的构词法。语境中说母亲为所有家人做衣服穿。4个选项中的overalls“工装裤”是服装的一种。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题测试量词。语境给的是后置量词定语的位置,只有enough可做后置定语。