单选题
It was a really tiring day. I was about to sleep
when someone gave me a call. On the other side, a strange farmer was speaking.
The man was always the focus of people's conversation. However, I had never
known him before. His voice sounded very nervous and he had been talking for
several minutes before I began to understand something. Even then what I could
{{U}}figure out{{/U}} was that someone called Jane had suffered from a very severe
accident. It was snowing heavily and I couldn't figure out the
direction. I was driving for about an hour. Then I found his house at
last. He was just standing there, waiting for my arrival. It seemed to me
that Jane had passed away. "To me, she meant a lot even more than my own wife!"
he said with tears. From his face, I could see he was rather sad. At that time I
thought something terrible had happened, a possible scandal maybe. When he told
me that he had placed her in the barn (厩) , I was quite shocked. "I
couldn't leave her in such terrible weather!" he said.
Apparently Jane had been his secret lover. I was on the point of telling him he
could not ask me to cover anything up when he pushed the barn door, He lit his
candle and then I saw a dark and big figure. "She was such a good cow that I
won't allow anyone except a doctor to touch her!" he said, and burst out crying
again.
单选题
The underlined phrase "figure out" in the first paragraph means
"______".
A. understand
B. realize
C. make out
D. hear clearly
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为推断题。figure out意为“弄清”，等同于make out。
单选题
Before he reached the farmer's home, the writer thought Jane was lying
______.
A. in bed in a barn
B. on the floor of a room
C. in bed in a room
D. on the ground of a barn
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为推断题。从短文中的最后一句“When he told me he had put her in the barn(厩)”，可知作者没想到简会在barn中，所以排除A和D。选项B“在房间的地上”，这也不是作者想象中病人待的地方。
单选题
What do we know about Jane from the passage?
A. She had had an accident.
B. She had caused a scandal with the farmer.
C. She was badly sick.
D. She was hidden somewhere by the farmer.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题为细节题。从文章的第一段的最后一句中的“Jane had suffered from a very severe accident”可知A项为正确选项。
单选题
The farmer hoped that the writer could try his best to ______.