Question

【題目】When a Man Made Fun of His Seatmate

Soon after Savannah Phillips, a 33-year-old mother, sat down in her window seat on a United Airlines flight this past May, she glanced（瞥見(jiàn)）over at her seatmate. He was busy ___________. His phone was not far from her face and the letters were unusually _________, making it easy for Phillips to read the message on it: “Hey Babe, I’m sitting next to a smelly fatty.”

Tears streamed down the poor woman’s face as she tried to hide herself to the corner, trying to make herself as _________as possible.

“It awoke all the unpleasant things I think about myself. I always preferred to sit alone on flights because of my _________, fearing others next to me would feel uncomfortable. ” Phillips wrote in a Facebook post after the flight.

Sitting a row behind them was Chase Irwin, a 35-year-old bar manager. He could see Phillips crying—and then he oversaw the man’s texts.“I could not have this guy,who’s making fun of her, sit next to her this whole flight,” he said in an interview later.

_________, Irwin unlocked his seat belt and went over to the texter. “Hey, I need to talk to you,” Irwin said. “We’re switching（交換）seats—now.” When the texter asked why, he said, “You’re texting about her, and I’m not putting up with that.”

The texter quickly _________. Irwin took his place next to Phillips and was soon cheering up his new seatmate.

“He ___________me not to let that guy get to me and that everything was going to be fine,” Phillips wrote. They spent the rest of the flight chatting like friends.

With her trust in humanity restored, Phillips wrote this on Facebook: “I was so grateful（感激的）he was there. What he did set such a good_______for others to follow, that is, sticking up for people when they need help.”

【1】A.textingB.talkingC.playingD.working

【2】A.beautifulB.largeC.discouragingD.surprising

【3】A.warmB.braveC.smallD.light

【4】A.buildB.faceC.mannerD.character

【5】A.ProbablyB.FortunatelyC.SuccessfullyD.Immediately

【6】A.promisedB.remainedC.agreedD.insisted

【7】A.encouragedB.orderedC.warnedD.trained

【8】A.goalB.exampleC.taskD.time

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】C

【4】A

【5】D

【6】C

【7】A

【8】B

【解析】

本文講述了薩凡納·菲利普斯在坐飛機(jī)時(shí)，旁邊的乘客發(fā)短信給朋友說(shuō)：“我坐在一個(gè)臭胖子旁邊。”短信上的字很大，菲利普斯看到了，她非常傷心。坐在他們后面的歐文看見(jiàn)這個(gè)情景，他不想讓這個(gè)人傷害菲利普斯，和她換了座位。他所做的事為其他人樹(shù)立了一個(gè)好榜樣，那就是在人們需要幫助的時(shí)候挺身而出。

【1】

句意：他忙著發(fā)短信。

A. texting 發(fā)短信，B. talking談話(huà)，C. playing玩，D. working工作。根據(jù)后文的“to read the message on it”可知，他在讀上面的短信，因此他忙著發(fā)短信，故選A。

【2】

句意：他的手機(jī)離她的臉不遠(yuǎn)，字母異乎尋常地大，讓菲利普斯很容易讀到上面的信息： “嘿，寶貝，我坐在一個(gè)臭胖子旁邊�！�

A. beautiful漂亮的，B. large大的，C. discouraging使人沮喪的，D. surprising令人驚訝的。根據(jù)“making it easy for Phillips to read the message on it:”可知，她能清楚地讀到手機(jī)上面的信息，因此上面的字比較大，故選B。

【3】

句意：這個(gè)可憐的女人試著把自己藏在角落里，盡量使自己顯得小一些，淚水順著她的臉流下來(lái)。

A. warm溫暖的，B. brave勇敢的，C. small小的，D. light輕的。根據(jù)“she tried to hide herself to the corner”可知，她像要把自己躲藏在角落里，因此推斷她想讓自己顯得小一些。故選C。

【4】

句意：因?yàn)槲业捏w形，我總是更喜歡在飛機(jī)上獨(dú)自坐著，擔(dān)心坐在我旁邊的人會(huì)感到不舒服。

A. build體格，體形，B. face臉，C. manner方式，D. character性格。根據(jù)前文的“a smelly fatty.”可知，此處指的是她的體形。故選A。

【5】

句意：歐文立即解開(kāi)安全帶，走到那個(gè)發(fā)短信的人身邊。

A. Probably可能，B. Fortunately 幸運(yùn)地，C. Successfully成功地，D. Immediately立刻。根據(jù)前文的“I could not have this guy,who’s making fun of her, sit next to her this whole flight,”可知，他不想讓這個(gè)取笑她的家伙，在整個(gè)飛行過(guò)程中都坐在她旁邊，因此他馬上解開(kāi)安全帶，走到那個(gè)人那里，故選D。

【6】

句意：發(fā)短信的那個(gè)人很快就同意了。

A. promised答應(yīng)，B. remained保持，C. agreed同意，D. insisted堅(jiān)持。根據(jù)后文的“Irwin took his place next to Phillips and was soon cheering up his new seatmate.”可知，這個(gè)發(fā)短信的人同意歐文坐在他的旁邊，故選C。

【7】

句意：“他鼓勵(lì)我不要讓那個(gè)家伙打擾我，一切都會(huì)好起來(lái)的，”菲利普斯寫(xiě)道。

A. encouraged 鼓勵(lì)，B. ordered命令，C. warned警告，D. trained訓(xùn)練。根據(jù)“everything was going to be fine”可知，他說(shuō)一切都會(huì)好起來(lái)的，因此是鼓勵(lì)我不要被這個(gè)家伙打擾，故選A。

【8】

句意：他所做的事為其他人樹(shù)立了一個(gè)好榜樣，那就是在人們需要幫助的時(shí)候挺身而出。

A. goal目標(biāo)，B. example例子，榜樣，C. task 任務(wù)，D. time時(shí)間。set a good example “樹(shù)立一個(gè)好榜樣”，故選B。