The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.
When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.
A bell went off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well, he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the sppeadeotoned policeman. “Well, who can I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.
Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the interstate（州際公路） highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs. Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.
“But how can people see it when they whiz（快速移動(dòng)） by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month.
The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.
小題1:How long has the cat been missing?
A．More than a monthB．More than two months
C．More than three monthsD．It’s been back.
小題2:Who did the old lady finally turn to for help?
A．A billboard companyB．The police
C．The phone companyD．The interstate telephone line
小題3:How is the old lady like?
A．StupidB．LovingC．SmartD．Decisive(有決斷力的)
小題4:The underlined word was mistyped（打錯(cuò)了）. But we can still guess it’s most probable meaning:____________.
A．a(chǎn)ngryB．surprisedC．happyD．excited
小題5:What’s the best title for this passage?
A．An advertisementB．A missing cat
C．A pet’s storyD．Life without cat

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:A
小題5:B

試題分析：這篇短文主要記述了一位愚蠢的老太太，在自己的貓丟失以后，不是去鄰居那里找，而是求助于警方。最后花3000美元在洲際公路邊上租了一塊廣告牌，但是仍舊沒(méi)有找到自己的貓。
小題1:根據(jù)第一段“My baby has been missing for over a month now,描述，可知選A。
小題2:根據(jù)第一段she called the police.及下文描述，可知她求助于警方了，故選B。
小題3:根據(jù)短文后三段描述，可知這是一個(gè)愚蠢的老太太，故選A。
小題4:聯(lián)系上下文，這個(gè)老太太說(shuō)的話，可知這個(gè)警察生氣了，故選A，生氣的。
小題5:這篇短文主要是圍繞一只丟失的貓進(jìn)行敘述的，故選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文中長(zhǎng)句較多，一時(shí)很難讀懂句子含義，注意多讀幾遍，不要強(qiáng)求非得理解一詞一句的含義，能把握文章大意就行。然后帶著問(wèn)題閱讀短文，一般就能順利找出答題依據(jù)。對(duì)于不能直接找到根據(jù)的問(wèn)題注意聯(lián)系上下文，根據(jù)短文中心總結(jié)出正確答案。
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