单选题 Outwardly you may be on friendly terms with the people next door, but, if the truth (1) known, you would not think much of them. Their ways may be (2) enough, but they are not your ways. It is not hatred, far (3) envy; neither is it contempt exactly. Only you do not understand why they live as they (4) . You judge people by their social background. They were not brought up as you were—not that they are to blame (5) that, but certain advantages that you had were (6) by them. Rude noises come from that house next door that you would not (7) from respectable people. Laughter late (8) night, when you want to sleep—how coarse door always (9) , and what a variety of songs! Why do they never try a new one? There (10) be new songs from time to time but you (11) hear them next door. Then there is that young woman who sings! What voices the people next door have. After a song is (12) it goes on next door. A popular song never dies: The people next door rescue it after it has been hounded off the street and warm it into (13) life. And so it goes. Everything they do shows just what sort of people they are. (14) at the things they hang out in their garden. If your things looked like that you would at (15) keep them indoors. It is not that they are so old, but they were chosen with (16) monstrously bad taste m the first place. (17) in the world do people want to (18) a house with things like that for? They must have (19) enough, too, and for that amount of money they could have bought—but what is the (20) of talking? There are distinctions that you never can make people feel.

单选题 A. were B. are C. is D. being
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】因为该子句为虚拟语气。
单选题 A. far B. friendly C. nice D. bad
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据全句的意思，以及转折连接词but表明其前后意义相反，从语义连贯的角度来看，应填入选择项C。
单选题 A. more B. less C. much D. little
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】Far可以修饰比较级，而前半句hatred前用了否定词，故选用选择项B。
单选题 A. think B. understand C. are D. do
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】该从句中缺少一个谓语动词，根据全句的意思应该是live，为了避免重复可用do代替。所以选用选择项D。
单选题 A. in B. for C. of D. at
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】Blame for是固定搭配，其余几个介词均不能与blame搭配。
单选题 A. understood B. respected C. denied D. accepted
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据全句的意思应该选用C项，意思为“你所具有的某些优点可能不为邻居所接受”。
单选题 A. receive B. wish C. expect D. understand
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】受人尊敬的人不会制造扰人的噪声。
单选题 A. at B. on C. of D. by
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】At night为固定搭配。
单选题 A. is B. are C. were D. be
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】Coarse是形容词，与系动词一起构成谓语，而door是单数，故选用选择项A。
单选题 A. always B. must C. often D. have to
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】There与be之间应该有个情态动词。
单选题 A. must B. never C. always D. have
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】But表示转折，故选择否定词never.
单选题 A. played B. sung C. forgotten D. remembered
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】表示对邻居唱老歌的抱怨。
单选题 A. unhappy B. old C. new D. poor
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】New life与前面讲到的老歌相对应。
单选题 A. Put B. Take C. Gaze D. Look
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】Look at为固定搭配。
单选题 A. almost B. enough C. most D. least
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】At least是固定搭配。
单选题 A. such B. so C. much D. more
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】Such用于此处加强语气。
单选题 A. What B. Which C. That D. Now
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】这是一个疑问句，that、which与now不可用来引导疑问句。
单选题 A. lay B. store C. put D. fill
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】“Fill a house with”与“furnish a house with”意思相同。
单选题 A. bought B. spent C. cost D. taken
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】其他三个选项都不妥，因为主语“they”指“things”。
单选题 A. work B. use C. chance D. different
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】意思为“说又有什么用呢?”。