Question

【題目】 When I was about six years old, my brother David and I visited our aunt, Mary. We stayed in her house for a night. David was only 4 years old, and was still _________of the dark, so Mary left the hall light on when we slept.

However, David __________the grey moths(蛾) flying around the hall light. He asked Mary to make the moths go away. When she asked ____________, he simply said, “Because they are ugly and scary, I don’t like them.” Mary laughed and said, “Being ugly outside doesn’t ________not being beautiful inside. In fact, moths are one of the most beautiful animals in the animal world.

“Once, the angels ( 天使) were ___________. They were sad because it was raining heavily. The ___________little moths hated to see others so sad. They decided to make a rainbow(彩虹) to cheer up the angels. They thought if the butterflies(蝴蝶) ____________, they could make a beautiful rainbow together.

“Then one of the moths went to ask the butterflies for help. Bu t the butterflies didn’t want to ________any of their colors, so the moths decided to make a rainbow themselves. They beat their wings very hard and the colors on them made a rainbow. They kept giving a little more and a little more ____________the rainbow went across the sky. They had given away all their colors except grey, which didn’t match the beautiful rainbow.

“Then the once—colorful moths became ___________. The angles saw the rainbow and smiled…” My brother went to sleep with that story and hasn’t feared months since then.

【1】A.sureB.afraidC.proudD.happy

【2】A.likedB.letC.hatedD.killed

【3】A.howB.whatC.whenD.why

【4】A.makeB.meanC.knowD.hope

【5】A.laughingB.playingC.cryingD.talking

【6】A.uglyB.angryC.kindD.sad

【7】A.refusedB.advisedC.helpedD.left

【8】A.turn upB.pick upC.give upD.look up

【9】A.untilB.unlessC.afterD.since

【10】A.redB.yellowC.greenD.grey

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】B

【5】C

【6】C

【7】C

【8】C

【9】A

【10】D

【解析】

文章大意：本文主要講的是作者和四歲的弟弟去姑媽瑪麗家住了一晚，然后弟弟不喜歡飛蛾，姑媽講了飛蛾為什么是灰色的故事。

【1】句意：大衛(wèi)才4歲，還怕黑，所以我們睡覺時(shí)瑪麗把門廳的燈開著。

sure確定的；afraid害怕的；proud自豪的；happy開心的，根據(jù)前文的“David was only 4 years old”“大衛(wèi)只有四歲”可知，應(yīng)該是怕黑，故選B。

【2】句意：然而，大衛(wèi)討厭灰蛾子在大廳燈光周圍飛來飛去。

liked喜歡；let讓；hated討厭；killed殺死，根據(jù)后文的“He asked Mary to make the moths go away”“他讓瑪麗把飛蛾趕走”可知，應(yīng)該是討厭，故選C。

【3】句意：當(dāng)她問為什么時(shí)。

how怎樣；what什么；when什么時(shí)候；why為什么，根據(jù)后文的“Because they are ugly and scary, I don’t like them”“因?yàn)樗鼈冇殖笥至钊撕ε�，我不喜歡它們”可知，應(yīng)該是問為什么，故選D。

【4】句意：外表丑陋并不意味著內(nèi)心不美。

make制作，成為；mean意味著；know知道；hope希望，根據(jù)后文的“moths are one of the most beautiful animals in the animal world”“飛蛾是動(dòng)物界最美麗的動(dòng)物之一”可知，應(yīng)該是外表丑陋并不意味著內(nèi)心不美，故選B。

【5】句意：以前，天使們總是哭。

laughing笑；playing玩；crying哭；talking談話，根據(jù)后文的“They were sad”“它們很傷心”可知，應(yīng)該是天使們總是哭，故選C。

【6】句意：善良的小飛蛾討厭看到別人這么傷心。

ugly丑陋的；angry生氣的；kind善良的；sad傷心的，根據(jù)后文的“They decided to make a rainbow(彩虹) to cheer up the angels”“他們決定做一道彩虹來讓天使們開心”可知，應(yīng)該是善良的小飛蛾，故選C。

【7】句意：他們認(rèn)為如果蝴蝶幫忙的話，他們可以一起做一道美麗的彩虹。

refused拒絕；advised建議；helped幫助；left離開，根據(jù)后文的“one of the moths went to ask the butterflies for help”“其中一只飛蛾去請(qǐng)求蝴蝶的幫助”可知，應(yīng)該是幫忙，故選C。

【8】句意：但是蝴蝶們不想放棄它們的任何一種顏色。

turn up出現(xiàn)；pick up撿起；give up放棄；look up查閱，根據(jù)后文的“so the moths decided to make a rainbow themselves”“于是飛蛾決定自己做一道彩虹”可知，應(yīng)該是蝴蝶不想放棄它們的顏色，故選C。

【9】句意：它們堅(jiān)持一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)的努力直到彩虹鋪滿天空才停下來。

until直到；unless除非；after在……之后；since自從，根據(jù)所給空前面的“kept giving”“一直努力”和后面的“the rainbow went across the sky”“彩虹鋪滿天空”可知，應(yīng)該是直到，故選A。

【10】句意：一些曾經(jīng)彩色的飛蛾變成了灰色。

red紅色的；yellow黃色的；green綠色的；grey灰色的，根據(jù)前文“They had given away all their colors except grey, which didn’t match the beautiful rainbow”可知，就差灰色，它們就能制成彩虹了，故選D。