Question

Linda British was an outstanding teacher who felt that if she had the time, she would like to create great art and poetry. When she was 28, however, she began to get severe   36 . Her doctors discovered that she had an enormous brain tumor (瘤). They told her that her   37  of surviving an operation were about 2 percent. Therefore,   38  operate immediately, they chose to wait for six months.

The night before the operation after six months, she   39  to give herself away. She made a   40 , in which she would donate all of her body parts to those who needed them in   41 of her death.

  42 , Linda died after the operation. Afterwards, her eyes went to an eye   43  in Bethesda, Maryland, and from there to a recipient in South Carolina. A young man, aged 28, went from darkness to   44 . That young man was so   45  that he wrote to the eye bank thanking them for existing.

  46 , he said he wanted to thank the parents of the donator. They must   47  be magnificent people to have a child who would   48  her eyes. He was given the   49  of the British family on Staten Island. He arrived unannounced and rang the doorbell. After hearing his introduction, Mrs. British   50  and hugged him. She said, “Young man, if you’ve got   51  to go, my husband and I would love you to spend your weekend with us.”

He stayed, and   52  he was looking around Linda’s room, he saw that she’d read Hegel. He’d read Hegel in Braille as well.

The next morning Mrs. British was looking at him and said, “You know, I’m sure I’ve seen you somewhere before.” All of a sudden she   53 . She ran upstairs and pulled out the last picture Linda had drawn. It was a portrait of her ideal man.

The picture was almost the same as this young man who had received Linda’s eyes.

Then her mother read the   54  poem Linda had written on her deathbed. It   55 :

Two hearts passing in the night

Falling in love

Never able to gain each other’s sight.

1.                A．heartaches      B．headaches      C．stomachaches D．backaches

 

2.                A．risks           B．happenings      C．chances  D．moments

 

3.                A．more than      B．other than       C．better than    D．rather than

 

4.                A．decided        B．suggested       C．prepared D．liked

 

5.                A．will            B．letter          C．notice    D．poem

 

6.                A．spite           B．case           C．charge   D．view

 

7.                A．Actually        B．Unbelievably     C．Surprisingly    D．Unfortunately

 

8.                A．hospital        B．center          C．school    D．bank

 

9.                A．silence         B．daytime         C．sight D．delight

 

10.               A．excited         B．joyful          C．grateful   D．proud

 

11.               A．However       B．Therefore       C．Furthermore   D．Yet

 

12.               A．partly          B．hardly          C．seldom    D．indeed

 

13.               A．give up         B．give away       C．give off    D．give out

 

14.               A．news          B．a(chǎn)ddress        C．gift   D．hometown

 

15.               A．ran out         B．stood out       C．reached out    D．turned out

 

16.               A．somewhere     B．a(chǎn)nywhere       C．everywhere    D．nowhere

 

17.               A．a(chǎn)s             B．a(chǎn)fter           C．until  D．since

 

18.               A．shouted        B．laughed        C．waked D．remembered

 

19.               A．last            B．first           C．past  D．recent

 

20.               A．wrote          B．spoke          C．said  D．talked

 

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.A

6.B

7.D

8.D

9.C

10.C

11.C

12.D

13.B

14.B

15.C

16.D

17.A

18.D

19.A

20.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了一個奇怪的故事，一個捐獻者心里的理想男性正是她捐獻出的眼角膜的受益者。

1.B 名詞辨析。A心臟病B頭疼病C肚子疼D后背疼；根據(jù)下文的brain tumor(瘤)B正確。

2.C 名詞辨析。A冒險B發(fā)生的事情C機會D時刻；指他康復的機會很小。

3.D 短語辨析。A超過B除…外C好于…D而不是…；不是立刻手術，他們而是等了6個月后。

4.A 動詞辨析。A決定B建議C準備D喜歡；在手術前，她決定把自己的遺體捐出去。

5.A 名詞辨析。A遺囑B信件C通知D詩歌；她在手術之前立下了遺囑。

6.B 固定詞組。In case of假如…假如她死了，就把遺體捐給需要的人。

7.D 上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)下文可知手術以后不久她就去世了，這是不幸的事情。

8.D 上下文串聯(lián)。根據(jù)本段最后一行the eye bank說明她的眼睛進入了眼睛庫。

9.C 上下文串聯(lián)。指這個人接受了接受了捐贈，重新獲得了視力。Sight視力。

10.C 形容詞辨析。A興奮B高興C感激D自豪；他心懷感激寫信高興眼睛庫。

11.C 副詞辨析。A/D然而B因此C而且;而且他還想感謝捐獻者的父母親。

12.D 副詞辨析。A部分B幾乎不C很少D真地；他們真地很偉大，他們孩子獻出自己的肢體。

13.B 短語辨析。A放棄B贈送，獻出C發(fā)出D分發(fā)；指他們孩子獻出自己的肢體。

14.B 名詞辨析。A消息B地址C禮物D家鄉(xiāng)；對方把這對父母的地址給了他。

15.C 短語辨析。A用完B突出C伸手D結果是；Mrs. British伸手擁抱了他。

16.D 上下文串聯(lián)。如果你沒有對方住，就住在我家吧。故使用否定詞。

17.A 連詞辨析。A當…時B在…之后C直到D自從；當他在看她的房間的時候…

18.D 動詞辨析。A喊叫B大笑C蘇醒D記得；突然她記起了…

19.A 形容詞辨析。A最后的B第一C過去的D最近的；根據(jù)下文的on her deathbed在去世的病床上說明是最后一首詩。

20.C 動詞辨析，表示信件內(nèi)容，或者通知內(nèi)容等都應該使用動詞say或者read。

考點：考查故事類短文閱讀

點評：本文講述了一個奇怪的故事，一個捐獻者心里的理想男性正是她捐獻出的眼角膜的受益者。答題前一定要讀懂全文，弄清文章要表達的思想，注意前后段落之間的關系。答題中，一定要認真分析，注意選項與上下文的關系，與前后單詞的關系。對于一時沒有太大的把握的題可以放到最后再來完成，因為有時答案可以從下文內(nèi)容體現(xiàn)出來。答完后再通讀一篇文章，看看所選選項能不能是語句通順，語意連貫。