单选题 It was a beautiful summer day and I was taking a walk in the downtown area of Madrid. When I turned a street 1 I heard the voice of a lovely Spanish singer coming from a nearby cafe. The music 2 me, so I went to the cafe to hear it better.
I sat down at a table near the door. The waiter came over, and I 3 a glass of wine.
While waiting for my wine, I listened to the soft music. The singer was a young lady, a little too fat, but 4 pretty. A black young man was playing the piano.
The waiter returned 5 the glass of wine and put it on the table. I started drinking the wine slowly and 6 the other people in the cafe. They were all men because women seldom go into the cafes in Spain.
There were three men sitting at a table near mine. I could 7 by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man a stranger. The waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a 8 in it. The American picked up his glass, noticed the fly and poured the beer and the fly was thrown onto the floor. The Englishman looked into his glass, noticed the fly and reached for a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer, and drank the 9 of it.
The stranger noticed the fly in the beer, too. He picked it up with his fingers, squeezed it carefully in order to save every drop of beer, then drank the beer 10 .
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 四个名词中,能和动词turn搭配的只有corner(角落)这个词。turn a street corner“拐弯”;sidewalk“人行道”。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 该句的意思是这音乐吸引了我,所以我走过去仔细听。attract“吸引”,其他三个词都不能做谓语。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] order专指在饭店里点酒菜,其他三词都无此意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] quite pretty“非常漂亮”;too much“太多的”用来修饰不可数名词;little“几乎没有”修饰不可数名词。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] with表示“带着、拿着”,该句话的意思是服务员拿着我点的红酒回来了。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] watch表示“观看”。该句话的意思是我一边喝酒一边看这咖啡馆里的其他人。watch指带有观赏性质的看;see强调看的结果,表示“看到”;look for表示“寻找”;notice表示“注意到”。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] tell表示“辨别、说出”。本句话的意思是:我能够通过他们的口音判断出其中一个是美国人…。judge“判决,断定”;speak“讲某种语言或发言”;remark“评论”。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 从下文可知每只杯子里都有一只“fly(苍蝇)”。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] the rest of“剩余的…”。意思是他看到苍蝇,把苍蝇拿了出来,然后把剩下的喝完了。other“另外的”,一般不和of搭配。remain(n.)表示“剩余”时往往用复数。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] happily在此处有一种讽刺的意味。最后的这个陌生人竟然连苍蝇体内的一点酒也不放过,还要挤出来喝掉,用夸张的手法描述了一个嗜酒如命的人,而happily则比其他表痛苦的词更能加深这种意味。