Question

You have probably heard the expression，“It’s raining cats and dogs outside．”That means 16  it’s raining very hard I not that  17  cats and dogs are falling from the  18  ．However，one day in June，1882，it really did rain  19  over Dubuque，Iowa．The frogs  20  falling along with hailstones(冰雹)during a  21  storm．

    Hail is formed when drops of rainwater are  22  by heavy winds and are carried high up into the air．There the raindrops become frozen．Many drops may freeze  23  to form balls of ice；these ice balls，or hailstones，then  24  to earth．

    During the storm in Dubuque，the strong winds lifted small frogs from nearby ponds(池塘) 25  the air along with raindrops．When some of these frogs became covered with ice，both hailstones and“frog-stones”fell onto the ground．

1.A．that       B．how        C．why        D．if

2.A．careless    B． blind       C．dead        D．real

3.A．hill       B．tower       C．sky         D．building

4.A．cats       B．frogs       C．dogs        D．birds

5.A．stopped    B．enjoyed     C．began       D．forgot

6.A．popular    B．terrible      C．weekly      D．common

7.A．divided    B．a(chǎn)dded       C．changed      D．caught

8.A．together    B．a(chǎn)lone       C．so           D．a(chǎn)lmost

9.A．hold       B．lose        C．keep         D．fall

10.A．from       B．into        C．a(chǎn)fter         D．by

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.B

5.C

6.B

7.D

8.A

9.D

10.B

【解析】

【主旨大意】你也許聽過這種表達(dá)，“It’s raining cats and dogs outside．”它并不是貓和狗從天上掉下來，但是卻發(fā)生了青蛙石落在地上的事實(shí)。

1.這里是需要引導(dǎo)賓語從句，且在從句中不做成分。句意:它意思是天正在下大雨。A項(xiàng)符合題意。

2.根據(jù)上下文判斷那并不是真貓和狗落下來。careless粗心的；無憂無慮的，blind失明的；盲目的，dead死去的， real 真的；現(xiàn)實(shí)的，故選D。

3.根據(jù)下文提示可知是 ，故選C。

4.根據(jù)下文判斷可知是frogs，故選B 。

5.根據(jù)句意應(yīng)是青蛙隨著冰雹開始降落，故選C 。

6.根據(jù)下文判斷是一場可怕的風(fēng)暴，故選B 。

7.根據(jù)句意應(yīng)是雨點(diǎn)被強(qiáng)風(fēng)抓住，故選D。

8.根據(jù)句意應(yīng)是雨點(diǎn)凍結(jié)在一起形成冰球，故選A 。

9.根據(jù)句意應(yīng)是這些冰球或冰雹，然后下降到地球，故選 D 。

10.從…進(jìn)入…用from… into…，故選B。