Question

My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. While the other coats drooped, this one looked as if it were   36  itself up. The coat had beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a(an)  37  price of $28, which was popular just then with   38  , but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better, bearing that   39  of classic elegance. John tried it on and the fit was perfect.

John   40  the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile "Did the kids like your coat?" I asked. "They loved it," he said,   41  folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a   42  came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness and reasoned discussion replaced fierce   43 . He became more mannerly and   44 , eager to please. He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him   45  his behavior.

When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and   46  what caused the changes, she said laughing. "It   47  be his coat!" Another teacher told him she was giving him a good   48  not only because he had earned   49  but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran into a friend “Could this be John?" he asked surprisingly,   50  John's new height, assessing the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.

John and I both know we should never   51  a person's clothes for the real person within them.   52  there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for   53  what is on the inside to what is on the outside.

For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to   54  as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape   55  all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.

1.                A．turning         B．holding         C．showing  D．hanging

 

2.                A．unreasonable    B．expected       C．unbelievable   D．a(chǎn)cceptable

 

3.                A．teenagers       B．a(chǎn)dults          C．women   D．strangers

 

4.                A．color          B．price           C．style D．size

 

5.                A．sent           B．carried         C．lent  D．wore

 

6.                A．casually        B．comfortably     C．carefully  D．quickly

 

7.                A．happiness       B．change         C．smile D．matter

 

8.                A．doubt          B．fight           C．a(chǎn)rgument D．war

 

9.                A．thoughtful      B．handsome       C．hopeful   D．curious

 

10.               A．of             B．on            C．with  D．a(chǎn)t

 

11.               A．wondered      B．confirmed      C．concluded D．discovered

 

12.               A．can            B．must           C．will   D．should

 

13.               A．present        B．mark           C．word D．result

 

14.               A．this            B．them          C．it D．one

 

15.               A．looking up at    B．looking down to  C．checking up    D．taking up

 

16.               A．trust           B．mistake         C．exchange  D．regard

 

17.               A．But            B．Though         C．Since D．So

 

18.               A．a(chǎn)ttaching       B．connecting      C．relating   D．matching

 

19.               A．career         B．life            C．study D．success

 

20.               A．where         B．why           C．how  D．when

 

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.C

5.D

6.C

7.B

8.C

9.A

10.B

11.A

12.B

13.B

14.C

15.A

16.B

17.A

18.D

19.B

20.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文介紹作者的兒子因?yàn)榇┝藘?yōu)雅的外套，言行舉止都發(fā)生了變化，說(shuō)明我們的內(nèi)在要和穿的衣服匹配，年輕人要選擇正確的人生方向。

1.考查詞組：hold up支撐住，和前面的droop彎曲，下垂，枯萎，形成對(duì)比。選B

2.考查形容詞：A. unreasonable 不合理的 B. expected預(yù)料的C. unbelievable 難以置信的 D. acceptable可以接受的，后面的句子：but could cost several hundred dollars new.可知新的要幾百美元，現(xiàn)在的28美元的價(jià)格是令人難以置信的。選C。

3.考查名詞：因?yàn)?4歲的孩子喜歡，所以是受年輕人歡迎。選A

4.考查名詞：A. color顏色B. price價(jià)格C. style風(fēng)格D. size大小，尺寸，句意：這是經(jīng)典的款式。選C。

5.考查動(dòng)詞：A. sent派送B. carried攜帶C. lent借D. wore穿，這里指約翰第二天穿著外套上學(xué)校。選D。

6.考查副詞：A. casually隨意地B. comfortably舒服地C. carefully仔細(xì)地D. quickly迅速地，約翰仔細(xì)的把它折疊放在椅背上。選C

7.考查名詞：從后面的描寫(xiě)可以看出約翰身上有了變化（change）。選B

8.考查名詞：和前面的Agreement對(duì)應(yīng)的是argument，選 C

9.考查形容詞：A. thoughtful考慮周到的B. handsome英俊的C. hopeful有希望的， D. curious好奇的，句意：他變得更加有禮貌和考慮周到。選A。

10.考查介詞：lecture sb on sth，訓(xùn)斥，教訓(xùn)某人某事，選B

11.考查動(dòng)詞：A. wondered想知道，B. confirmed   證實(shí)C. concluded總結(jié)D. discovered發(fā)現(xiàn)，句意：我想知道是什么導(dǎo)致他的改變。選A。

12.考查情態(tài)動(dòng)詞：must be表示 肯定推測(cè)，那一定是那件外套。選B

13.考查名詞：give sb a good mark給某人好分?jǐn)?shù)。選B

14.考查代詞：it代指前面的a good mark。選C

15.考查詞組：look up at抬頭看，表示約翰長(zhǎng)高了。選A

16.考查動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)：mistake …for…把…錯(cuò)當(dāng)成…，句意：我們不能把一個(gè)人的衣服錯(cuò)當(dāng)成一個(gè)人真正的內(nèi)在，選B

17.考查連詞：前面說(shuō)不能以穿的衣服評(píng)價(jià)一個(gè)人，后面說(shuō)穿些優(yōu)雅的衣服也可以說(shuō)明問(wèn)題。是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。選A

18.考查動(dòng)詞辨析：A. attaching附上B. connecting連接C. relating關(guān)聯(lián)D. matching相配，表示外表和內(nèi)在要匹配，選D。

19.考查名詞：約翰來(lái)說(shuō)，這是個(gè)階段采取什么樣的人生道路和穿衣服一樣容易。選B

20.考查定語(yǔ)從句，先行詞是a vast landscape定語(yǔ)從句中缺少地點(diǎn)狀語(yǔ)。選A

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