Question

　　For a long time the zoo didn't have hippopotamus (河馬). Tex wanted 1 very much. But a hippopotamus was hard to find.

　　Then a circus (馬戲團) 2 down. It had to sell all the animals. One of them was Cleo-Cleo the hippopotamus! For a while Cleo was 3 on a farm. Poor Cleo! A hippopotamus can't be let 4 on a farm, so Cleo had to lie in a tub (木盆) of water just 5 enough to hold her. She couldn't move anything 6 her head.

　　Tex wanted to buy Cleo. But she was $ 4000! The 7 didn't have the money.

　　Then Tex thought of his friends, the children of Kansas City. 8 they knew about Cleo, they would help. He wrote a story about Cleo and sent it to a 9 . “Help save Cleo, children!” the story said. “Send in your pocket money.”

　　The children 10 . They sent in enough money to buy Cleo. And Cleo came to live at the zoo.

1．

[　　]

A．it

B．all

C．another

D．one

2．

[　　]

A．came

B．closed

C．turned

D．fell

3．

[　　]

A．kept

B．shown

C．followed

D．driven

4．

[　　]

A．alone

B．strange

C．free

D．healthy

5．

[　　]

A．deep

B．large

C．warm

D．clear

6．

[　　]

A．and

B．but

C．with

D．below

7．

[　　]

A．zoo

B．school

C．children

D．circus

8．

[　　]

A．Even

B．Though

C．Until

D．If

9．

[　　]

A．friend

B．city

C．newspaper

D．teacher

10．

[　　]

A．answered

B．gave

C．did

D．retold

Answer 1

答案：D;B;A;C;B;B;A;D;C;C
解析：

答案：1．D;2．B;3．A;4．C;5．B;6．B;7．A;8．D;9．C;10．C 　　【解析】1．one在此指代河馬(hippopotamus)，不確定的任何一個河馬。2．close down意思是“倒閉”，come down“下來”，turn down(電器的聲音)調小、關小一點；fall down“摔倒”。因此，close down的意思在課本中雖然沒有，根據排除法，在此就是最佳的。3．教科書上曾出現過一個類似用法。Sheep are kept by the farmers for producing wool and meat．這里的keep意思是“飼養、喂養”之意。4．這種選擇實際上是句型和句意的選擇。let sb. free在此的意思是“把某人/某物放出來”，在此即是把河馬放生，回歸自然之意。本句結構是被動語態，賓語(A hippopotamus)已被提到句首作主語了，便形成了let free的結構。5．河馬的身軀龐大，僅用一個小小的tub來“裝”河馬，本來就是一種諷刺，根本就談不上水深的問題。因此，large就成為唯一的選擇了。6．not anything but實際上就是nothing but的轉換，而nothing but在初中英語課本中沒有出現過！但是平時的練習中有所出現。雖然部分考生做出來了，可都以為but是一個連詞！其實不然。but在此是一個介詞！意思是“除……之外”，相當于except。nothing but＝only。7．河馬這么龐大的動物除了動物園(zoo)，誰還會去養呢？8．本句是指一種假定的條件。“如果孩子們知道了這件事，……”；講的是孩子們目前還不知道，因此though便不能用了。even是副詞，而此卻是需要連詞。9．既然是寫出文章，要發表的地方(newspaper)便是最佳選擇了！這一點從后面的孩子們紛紛進行捐款中可得知。10．這是一個難點。很多考生選擇了A(answered)，他們以為孩子們都響應了Tex在報紙上的號召，積極進行募捐。實際上，孩子們所進行的募捐是回應Tex的號召，并不是回答Tex的問題！選用did就是說，孩子們按照Tex所說的去做了！考的是考生對詞的理解和運用。