单选题
A Small Event
One afternoon in January 1989, Suzan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son, David ,were walking hard across an icy parking lot, when Suzan''s cane (手杖)slid on the ice . She 【51】 face fist into the mud . David 【52】 to her side . "Are you all right, Mom?"
【53】 , Suzan put herself up. "I''m okay, honey." she said.
It had been nearly two years since Suzan had trouble walking. She was falling more 【54】 now. Every inch of ice was a 【55】 danger for her. " I could do something," the boy thought.
David, too, was having 【56】 of his own. The boy had a speech defect. At school he 【57】 asked questions or read aloud.
One day Davids teacher announced a 【58】 assignment. "Each of you is going to come up with an invention, "she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA!", a national competition to encourage creativity in 【59】 . An idea hit David one evening. 【60】 only his mothers cane didn’t slip on ice ,he thought. "That''s it!" David realized.
"What if I fixed your cane to a nail stretched out of the bottom?" he asked his mother. His mother told him," 【61】 it would scratch floors. "
"It looks like a ball-point pen. You take your hand 【62】 the button and the nail returns back up." Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father, Jeff, 【63】 as Suzan used it to walk 50 feet across the 【64】 .
"It works!" she said . In July 1989, David was declared national winner at the annual" INVENT AMERICA!" ceremony in Washington D.C..
As David began to make 【65】 appearances, he was forced to communicate more clearly. Today, David is nearly free of his cane which is waiting to be widely used.
So the boy who once had trouble talking now hopes to start making canes for people who have trouble walking.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】本题是动词的语义辨异。从上文我们知道Suzan与她儿子穿越停车场手杖滑倒在冰上,可想而知,Suzan也肯定滑倒了。drop表示“投下,掉落”,如:drop bombs(投炸弹),drop a handkerchief掉下一块手帕;fall是“跌落;倒下”,如“The trees fell over in the storm”(树在暴动风雨中倒下了);lie意思是“躺,卧”。原句是指(Suzan摔倒了)她的脸一下摔倒泥坑里,根据句意,正确答案选择fall一词,只有它才符合英语的习惯表达方式。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】此题需要根据语义及搭配关系来判断。看到妈妈摔倒了,David肯定跑到妈妈身边,从词义上看,rush符合。从搭配关系上看也只有“rush to…”有意义,表示朝…方向冲”。而lean表示“倚,靠”,可以构成“lean on或against”(依靠);stand可以与by搭配,表示“和…站在一起;支持…”,如:Please stand by me in my hour of need.(请在我需要时帮助并支持我);stay表示“停留”,用在该文中,不符合语义,也不搭配。故只有选C)项。
【答案解析】从上文我们已经知道Susan已经走路不太利索,而最近又经常摔跟头。根据语义,应选择经常性的动作,usually是“经常地,通常地”;frequently是“时常”之义,它的语气较强,特别强调短时期内次数的频繁性,如:Business frequently brings him to Shanghai.(他时常因公事去上海)。Frequently在此比较符合原句的意思。至于A)项和D)项是设计的干扰项,可以不必考虑。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】所给的四个选取项在语法角度方面,即句中所需填词的词性选择方面没有什么错误。A)项具有很大的迷惑性,动词hide表示“隐匿,隐藏”,hiding被当做形容词,修饰danger,而实际上英语对于“潜在的危险”的习惯表示法是用形容词possible来表示,因为对于一位患有腿病的人来说每一块冰都有可能使她摔倒,这已并不是什么秘密。从语义的逻辑关系来判断,选项B)与D)都有错误的,这二者是同义词,如果选用任一个词,势必使原文变成:Susan只要碰上冰就一定行摔倒,这与上句“she was falling more frequently now”岂不矛盾。因此B)与D)项都可以排除。
【答案解析】private是“私人的,私有的”与public(公共的,公有的)正对立,例如:He asked for some private conversation.(他要求密谈);He was asked to make a public statement.(他被要求做出公开声明)。在该文中我们得知David是89年全美学生优秀发明奖获得者,根据常识来判断,人一有名抛头露面的机会就越多,更何况下文也提供了解题依据“He was forced to communicate more clearly”,以前,David不愿回答问题,不愿出头是因为他有口齿发音毛病,但出名之后,形势逼迫他在公开场合露面并且与人交谈。选择项A)与B)毫无意义;C)项与上下文意义相矛盾,故只有public为正确答案。