A man walked into a restaurant. The restaurant advertised it had the   1   menu in the world. The manager was very proud of being able to provide any dish, no matter how   2   it was.
At the bottom of the   3  , there was a notice that said, “If you do not see the dish you need on this menu, please tell us and we will add it to the menu right away.”
The man   4   the menu and decided to make sure if it was true. He would order   5    that was very unusual.
When a waiter came up to take his order, he said, “You say you can serve any dish, even if it’s not on your longest menu in the world.”
“That is correct, sir. We are able to meet everyone’s requirements.”
“Well,” the man said, “bring me a sandwich with two elephant ears.   6  , not African.”
The waiter wrote down in his paper: Two Indian elephant ears on toast.
“Very good, sir,” he said. “That shouldn’t   7   long.”
The waiter walked away quickly.
The man was very surprised and rather disappointed.
Then he smiled   8  the waiter returned with a very unhappy look on his face.
“Ah!” the man said. “You can’t  9  it to me, can you?”
The waiter made an apology (道歉).
“I’m very sorry, sir, and this is the   10  embarrassing,”（困窘 ） he said, “but I’m afraid we can’t because we’ve run out of bread.”
小題1:
A．biggestB．thickestC．heaviestD．longest
小題2:
A．unfairB．unusualC．beautifulD．important
小題3:
A．menuB．dishC．restaurantD．table
小題4:
A．looked forB．took outC．looked atD．picked up
小題5:
A．a(chǎn)nythingB．nothingC．everythingD．something
小題6:
A．AmericanB．IndianC．CanadianD．Australian
小題7:
A．payB．costC． takeD．spend
小題8:
A．a(chǎn)sB．a(chǎn)nd C．soD．though
小題9:
A．catchB．takeC．fetchD．bring
小題10:
A．leastB．mostC．lessD．more

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C
小題5:D
小題6:B
小題7:C
小題8:A
小題9:D
小題10:B

試題分析：這篇短文描述了一個(gè)發(fā)生在一家飯店的故事。這家飯店吹噓說(shuō)能做出菜單上沒(méi)有的飯菜，結(jié)果一位好奇的顧客就開(kāi)出了自己的菜單——夾兩只大象耳朵的三明治。結(jié)果飯店做不出這道菜，不得不道歉。并辯解說(shuō)，是因?yàn)槊姘猛炅恕?br />小題1:詞義辨析。A.最大的；B.最厚的； C.最重的；D.最長(zhǎng)的。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境可知此處指的是世界上最長(zhǎng)的菜單。故選D。
小題2:聯(lián)系下文描述，可知此處指的是，無(wú)論這道菜多么的不同尋常，故選B，不同尋常的。
小題3:聯(lián)系上文The manager was very proud of being able to provide any dish,描述，可知此處指的是菜的底部，故選A，一道菜。
小題4:結(jié)合語(yǔ)境可知指的是這個(gè)男人看著菜單，故選C，看著。
小題5:詞義辨析。A.任何東西；B.沒(méi)有東西；C.每件東西；D.一些東西。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境可知，他要點(diǎn)些不同尋常的東西，故選D。
小題6:結(jié)合語(yǔ)境可知世界上大象最多的地方有兩個(gè)，一個(gè)非洲，另一個(gè)是印度，聯(lián)系下文，可知選B，印度的。
小題7:take 用于 it takes sb ... to do sth句型，僅指花費(fèi)時(shí)間（three hours等），必須用it作形式主語(yǔ)；spend用于sb spend...on sth或者sb spend...in doing sth（in可以省略），spend的主語(yǔ)必須是人，可以指花費(fèi)時(shí)間、也可以指花費(fèi)金錢；cost用于 sth costs sb sth，主語(yǔ)必須是物，多指花費(fèi)金錢，少數(shù)情況可指花費(fèi)時(shí)間、氣力，有時(shí)表示成本的消耗；pay的基本用法是：(1) pay (sb.) money for sth. 付錢（給某人）買……。 (2)pay for sth. 付……的錢。 (3)pay for sb. 替某人付錢。(4)pay sb. 付錢給某人。聯(lián)系本句主語(yǔ)that，可知選C，那不用等太久。
小題8:連詞辨析。A.隨著，當(dāng)……時(shí)；B.并且，和；C.因此；D.雖然，盡管。句意：接著當(dāng)服務(wù)員臉上帶著非常不高興的表情回來(lái)時(shí)，他笑了。故選A。
小題9:結(jié)合語(yǔ)境可知是不能帶來(lái)的意思，故選D，帶來(lái)。
小題10:聯(lián)系前文定冠詞the，可知后面用形容詞的最高級(jí)，least意思是最小的，故選B，最大的，這是最大的困難。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：這篇短文內(nèi)容比較簡(jiǎn)單，理解不難。各小題與上下文聯(lián)系比較緊密，答題中一定要注意聯(lián)系上下文。答完后多讀幾遍，看看是否符合邏輯，適當(dāng)修改。個(gè)別小題可以當(dāng)做單獨(dú)的詞義辨析題來(lái)做，先區(qū)分詞義，結(jié)合語(yǔ)境選出最能使語(yǔ)句通順的答案。
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