Question

  One cold night,I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was walking home around one o'clock in the morning after a 1       practice at the the?atre. With the opening night only a week away,I was still learning my lines by heart. I was having 2        han?dling my parttime job at the bank in the daytime and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked,I thought seriously about 3        both acting and San Francisco. I had 4        too much of the city life.

  As I walked down the 5        streets under the tall buildings,I felt very small and cold,so I began 6        both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out 7          a few homeless people under blankets.

  About a block from my 8       ,I heard a sound be?hind me. I 9       quickly,half expecting to see some?one with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining street light. Still,the noise had made me 10        so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I 11        what the noise had been. It had been my wallet 12        to the sidewalk.

  Suddenly I wasn't cold or tired any more. I ran out of the door and back to where I'd heard the noise. Al?though I searched the sidewalk 13        for 15 minutes,my wallet was 14        to be found.

  Just as I was about to quit the 15       ,I heard the garbage truck stop to the sidewalk next to 16        When a voice came from the inside, "Alisa Camcho?" I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened and out jumped a small blonde man with an 17        look in his eyes. "Is this 18        you're looking for?" He asked,holding up something like a wallet.

  Finally,I got my wallet back.   I also got back some 19        of city life. I realized the city couldn't be a bad place as soon as people were willing to 20        each other.

1. A. comfortable   B. serious   C. tiresome   D. fortunate

2. A. comfort   B. desire   C. pain   D. trouble

3. A. setting up   B. giving up   C. holding up   D. picking up

4. A. expected   B. changed   C. controlled   D. possessed

5. A. deserted   B. crowded   C. blank   D. narrow

6. A. running   B. jumping   C. moving   D. marching

7. A. towards   B. except   C. including   D. between

8. A. bank   B. theatre   C. apartment   D. office

9. A. stood   B. walked   C. turned   D. left

10. A. satisfied   B. confused   C. frightened   D. annoyed

11. A. turn out   B. figure out   C. give out   D. pull out

12. A. belonging   B. adding   C. sticking   D. falling

13. A. gratefully   B. anxiously   C. skilfully   D. delightedly

14. A. nowhere   B. anywhere   C. everywhere   D. somewhere

15. A. instruction   B. training   C. search   D. acting

16. A. it   B. him   C. someone   D. me

17. A. amused   B. unpleasant   C. uneasy   D. embarrassed

18. A. what   B. who

  C. whichever   D. whomever

19. A. production   B. judgment

  C. friendship   D. appreciation

20. A. expect   B. help   C. share   D. love 

Answer 1

1. C根據(jù)around one o'clock和practice可知"我"在劇院一直練到凌晨一點左右。由常識可知，練這么長時間一定是很令人疲勞的(tiresome) 。

2. D have trouble (in) doing sth意為"做某事很困難"。

3. B忙到凌晨一點左右才回家，這種日子太辛苫。"我"邊走邊認(rèn)真考慮要放棄"我"的表演，離開舊金山。

set up 成立，建立；give up放棄;hold up舉起，阻止;pick up接人(上車) ，偶然學(xué)會，撿起。

4. A"我"本來對舊金山的城市生活抱有很大的期望，但期望越大，現(xiàn)在失望越大。

5. A根據(jù)常識，凌晨一點左右，大街上很空曠(deserted) , 很少有行人和車輛。

6. A由文中walked down和felt... cold及keep warm可知此處應(yīng)是"跑"。"我"開始跑丫起來，一方面是為了取暖，另一方面是遠(yuǎn)離可能遇到的搶劫者。

7. B凌晨一點左右，大街上除了 (except) 裹著毯子的無家可歸者，很少有人了。

8. C此處的apartment指作者住的公寓套房。后文的"Not until I reached my apartment building…"也給出提示。

9. C聽到身后有響聲，這令作者懷疑有人搶劫，所以轉(zhuǎn)身想看看是否有人持刀或持槍搶劫。

10. C"我"看到的只是明亮的街燈。盡管如此，剛才身后的響聲還是讓"我"害怕(frightened) 。因為害怕，"我"才跑得更快丫 (run faster) „

11. B直到"我"到家并打開門鎖之后才意識到之前的響聲是什么。

figure out領(lǐng)會到，弄清楚；turn out結(jié)果是，證明是；give out發(fā)出，分發(fā)，耗盡；pull om拔出。

12. D原來是自己的錢包掉到(fall to) 路上所發(fā)出的聲音。

13. B作者丟了錢包后，決定重返路上去尋找，所以作者的心情當(dāng)然是很焦急的。

14. A根據(jù)下文，錢包后來被他人拾去了，所以作者盡管在路上焦急地找了 15分鐘，還是沒有找到。

15. C 

16. D下文提到，車上的人下來和"我"說話，說明此時的垃圾車是停在"我"旁邊的人行道上。

17. A車停了下來，一個個子不高的金發(fā)男子下了車，眼中露出愉悅的神情。

amused意為"愉快的"，此處amused look指男子微笑著對"我"說話。

18. A "這就是你在找的東西嗎？"他問道。

19. D作者本來對城市生活很失望，但現(xiàn)在錢包失而復(fù)得，所以對城市的印象立即改變了，心中充滿了感激(appre?ciation) 之情。

20. B最后作者意識到，在城市中，只要人與人之間愿意彼此幫助，城市生活還是很美好的。