Question

Jenlins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond(鉆石) ring worth 57,000 pounds for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked ___1___ like the first one but was worth only 2,000 pounds. This he took to the shop, which ___2___ it without a question.

Jenkins gave the much more ___3___ ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife ___4___ to Paris for a weekend. As to the ___5___ ring, the shop sold it for 60,000 pounds.

Six months later the buyer ___6___ it back to Silkstone’s office. “It’s a faulty(有瑕疵的) diamond,” he said. “It isn’t worth the high ___7___ I paid.” Then he told them the ___8___. His wife’s car had caught fire in an ___9___. She had escaped(幸免), ___10___ the ring had fallen off and been damaged(損壞) in the great ___11___ of the fire.

The shop had to ___12___. They knew that no fire on earth can ___13___ damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the ___14___ diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who ___15___ it?

A picture of the ring appeared in the ___16___. A reader thought he ___17___ the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which ___18___ a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman ___19___ a large diamond ring. “Do you know the ___20___ with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.

1. A. only       B. surely C. nearly D. exactly

2. A. accepted B. received     C. refused       D. rejected

3. A. real B. modern      C. worthy       D. valuable

4. A. flew       B. drove  C. sailed  D. bicycled

5. A. first       B. second       C. last     D. next

6. A. sold       B. posted C. brought      D. returned

7. A. cost       B. money       C. price   D. value

8. A. facts      B. matters       C. questions    D. results

9. A. affair     B. accident     C. incident      D. experience

11. A. pile      B. heat    C. power D. pressure

12. A. think    B. agree  C. permit D. promise

13. A. almost  B. even   C. just     D. ever

14. A. real      B. pure    C. right   D. exact

15. A. copied  B. made  C. stole   D. did

16. A. notices B. magazines  C. newspapers D. programmes

17. A. saw      B. knew  C. found  D. recognized

18. A. showed       B. drew   C. printed       D. carried

19. A. carrying      B. dressing     C. wearing      D. holding

20. A. dancer  B. woman       C. reader D. jeweler

Answer 1

1---20    DADAB   CCABC   BBDAD   CDACB  

解析:

珠寶商 Jenkins 以假亂真，騙取價值連城的鉆石戒指，后來假戒指遇火受損引出追查偷梁換柱者，最終 Jenkins 被抓獲并被判刑。

1. D /2 A。為了達到以假亂真的目的，當然要使假品極像(exactly like)真品。也正因為是“極像”，所以店主才“毫無疑問地接受了它”(accepted it without a question)。

3. D。從含義上看，這里應填“更有價值”這樣的意思，所以似乎 A、B 都行，但由于 worthy 表示“有價值”時往往含有反語意味(見《牛津現代高級英漢雙 解詞典》)，故不宜選擇。

4. A。從下文的“向飛機走去”這一語境，可知這里應是填 flew(飛)。

5. B。前文已告訴我們：這位珠寶商是先做了一個價值 57000 英鎊的鉆石戒指 (這是 the first one)，后才照此做了個仿制品(這是 the second one)。

6. C。指戒指買主將遇火受損的次品戒指“帶來”(brought)退貨。

7. C。請注意該句中的 high, pay 這兩個詞，能與它們搭配且意義通順的只有 price。

8. A。這里指陳述事情經過，即“事實”(facts)。

9. B。汽車起火，當然是出了“事故”(accident)。

10. C。在這次事故中，人幸免一死，而戒指卻在火中受損，前后意思轉折，所以選 but。

11. B。火毀戒指，自然是由于火之“高溫”(heat)。

12. B。事實面前，店主不得不“承認”(agree)。

13. D。這里的 ever 意為“曾經”，注意其前的否定詞 no，兩者結合起來意為“未曾”，剛好合其語境。

14. A。這里的 real(真) 與下文的 faulty(假) 相對。

15. D。請注意：從語境上看，其后的 it 指的應該是 Someone had taken the real diamond and put a faulty one in its place 這件事， 而不是指 diamond ring 這個東西。所以要選 did 這個動詞。

16. C。從常識上看，這里應是將戒指的照片登在“報紙”上，況且其后一行也有 in the papers 這樣的暗示。

17. D。從語境上看，這里選 saw(見過)和 recognized(認出)這兩個動詞均可，但細心的考生會覺得若選 saw，則應用過去完成時態(had seen)才合邏輯。

18. A。這里的 showed 指的是“刊登”。

19. C。表示“帶花(手表、項鏈、戒指等)”，均用動詞 wear。

20. B。從前文可知，是一位“婦女”(women)帶著一個大鉆石戒指。