Question

One day a poor man was traveling on horseback. At noon, he tied his horse to a tree and then  46  to eat something. A few minutes later, a rich man came along and tied his horse to the same tree.

“Please tie your horse to another tree,” said the poor man. “My horse is wild. It will kill yours.”

   47    the rich man said, “I shall tie my horse as I like!” he tied up his horse and had his lunch nearby. After a moment they heard a terrible   48   , the two horses were fighting. They went up to them, but it was too   49   . The rich man’s horse was killed. “See what you horse has done!” cried the rich man. “You will have to   50   it.” And he brought the poor man before Mr. Know.

Mr. Know asked the poor man some questions. But he made no   51   . At last Mr. Know said, “This man is dumb. He cannot speak.”

    “Oh,” the rich man shouted   52   . “He can! He spoke to me when I met him.”

    “Are you sure?” asked Mr. Know. “What did he   53   ?”

    “He told me not to tie my horse to the same tree because his horse was wild and would kill my horse.”

    “Oh,” said Mr. Know. “So he  54  you. Then can you expect to get money  55   him?  ”

    The rich man said nothing and left silently.

1.A. put down           B. set down         C. sat down         D. turned down

2. A. So                    B. But              C. And              D. Though

3. A. song              B. word             C. bell             D. noise

4.A. late               B. slow             C. hard             D. quick

5. A. pay for               B. look for     C. wait for         D. care for

6.A. idea               B. mistake          C. money            D. answer

7. A. quietly               B. angrily      C. happily          D. heavily

8.A. speak              B. tell             C. talk             D. say

9.A. helped             B. thanked          C. warned           D. ordered

10.A. for                   B. from             C. with             D. about

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.A

5.A

6.D

7.B

8.D

9.C

10.B

【解析】主旨大意：本篇短文主要講述了一個(gè)窮人和一個(gè)富人把馬栓在同一樹(shù)上，由一窮人的馬比較兇悍，把富人馬殺死了。然后富人與窮人找法官打官司。窮人用聰明的智慧打贏了官司的故事。

1.本題考查詞組辨析。A項(xiàng)意為“鎮(zhèn)壓；制止”；B項(xiàng)意為“看作”；C英意為“坐下”；D項(xiàng)意為“調(diào)低”。由語(yǔ)境可知“在中午，他把馬拴在樹(shù)上，然后坐下來(lái)吃東西”，只有C項(xiàng)具有“坐下”的意思，故選C。

2.由語(yǔ)境可知，這個(gè)窮人不讓富人把馬和他的拴在同一棵樹(shù)上，但是這個(gè)富人卻不聽(tīng)窮的話。此處表轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，故應(yīng)填but.

3.由下句“the two horses were fighting”可知他們聽(tīng)到了一聲可怕的聲音。四個(gè)項(xiàng)中只有noise意為“聲音”。

4.由They went up to them 及The rich man’s horse was killed可知，此應(yīng)為形容詞，且表示“晚了”的意思。A項(xiàng)意為“晚了”；B項(xiàng)意為“慢的”；C項(xiàng)意為“困難的”；D項(xiàng)意為“快的”。故選A。

5.A 項(xiàng)意為“賠償”；B項(xiàng)意為“尋找”；C項(xiàng)意為“等候”；D項(xiàng)意為“照顧”。由語(yǔ)境可知，這個(gè)富人是想讓這個(gè)窮人賠償他已死的馬。故選A。

6.別人問(wèn)這個(gè)窮人問(wèn)題，但是他并沒(méi)有回答。

7.A項(xiàng)意為“安靜地”；B項(xiàng)意為“生氣地”；C項(xiàng)意為“高興地”；D項(xiàng)意為“沉重地”。聯(lián)系上下文可知此時(shí)富人的狀態(tài)是“生氣在大聲喊”，故選B。

8.speak強(qiáng)調(diào)說(shuō)話的能力，說(shuō)某種語(yǔ)言。tell“告訴"。talk 指談話say 指說(shuō)的內(nèi)容，帶賓語(yǔ)。句意為“他說(shuō)的什么內(nèi)容？”強(qiáng)調(diào)說(shuō)話的內(nèi)容，故選D。

9.此處具有“警告;告誡”的意思。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中只有C具有此意，故選C。

10.get from意為“從…處得到…”故選B。