Question

【題目】Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words（在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，使其內(nèi)容通順。每空格限填一詞,首字母已給）

Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, s【1】 walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.

In o【2】 to realize their wish, they started by talking to bookstore owners and researching（調(diào)查） the industry. One figure caught their attention: they’d read some- where that roughly 20 percent of books sold were mysteries（推理小說）, and many buyers spent more than 300 a year on books. Mary and Richard were t【3】 mystery readers and owned a big collection of such books.

On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Cafe near their home. With three children in college it was i【4】 for the couple to spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the whole $100, 000 cost, they drew some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.

The store broke even in its first year, with only $120,000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to a【5】 customers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of writers to d【6】 their stories. Today Mystery Lovers make sales of about 420,000 a year. After paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $34,000.

“The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income,” says Richard. “This has always been about an e【7】 life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】seldom

【2】order

【3】themselves

【4】impossible

【5】attract

【6】discuss

【7】enjoyable

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文，講述了一對(duì)愛書的夫妻開書店的故事。

【1】句意：瑪麗和她的丈夫理查德·戈德曼像許多書籍愛好者一樣，很少路過書店而不進(jìn)去看看。

空格處所給首字母為s。根據(jù)句中Like many lovers of books可知，瑪麗和她的丈夫理查德戈德曼是書籍愛好者，所以每次路過書店很少不進(jìn)去看看的�？崭裉帒�(yīng)填入意為“很少”的副詞。seldom作副詞時(shí)，意為“很少、不常”，符合句意，故答案為seldom。

【2】句意：為了實(shí)現(xiàn)他們的愿望，他們開始與書店老板交談和研究這個(gè)行業(yè)。

空格處所給首字母為o。in order to為固定搭配，意為“為了、以便”，符合句意，故答案為order。

【3】句意：瑪麗和理查德本身就是推理小說讀者，擁有大量此類書籍。

空格處所給首字母為t。根據(jù)句意及句子結(jié)構(gòu)，空格處應(yīng)填入意為“他們自己”的反身代詞。themselves作反身代詞時(shí)，意為“他們自己”，符合句意，故答案為themselves。

【4】句意：有三個(gè)孩子在上大學(xué)，這對(duì)夫婦不可能把家里所有的錢都花在開店上。

空格處所給首字母為i。根據(jù)句意及句子結(jié)構(gòu)，空格處應(yīng)填入意為“不可能的”形容詞。impossible作形容詞時(shí)，意為“不可能的”，符合句意，故答案為impossible。

【5】句意：但瑪麗總是想出新方法來吸引顧客。

空格處所給首字母為a。根據(jù)句意及句子結(jié)構(gòu)，空格處應(yīng)填入意為“吸引”的動(dòng)詞。attract作動(dòng)詞時(shí)，意為“吸引”，空格所在處為不定式作目的狀語，故attract應(yīng)用動(dòng)詞原形，故答案為attract。

【6】句意：她還邀請(qǐng)了幾十位作家討論他們的故事。

空格處所給首字母為d。根據(jù)句意及句子結(jié)構(gòu)，空格處應(yīng)填入意為“討論”的動(dòng)詞。discuss作動(dòng)詞時(shí)，意為“討論”，空格所在處為不定式作目的狀語，故discuss應(yīng)用動(dòng)詞原形，故答案為discuss。

【7】句意：對(duì)我們自己來說，這一直是一段愉快的生活，而不是掙大錢。

空格處所給首字母為e。根據(jù)句意及句子結(jié)構(gòu)，空格處應(yīng)填入意為“令人愉快的”形容詞，作定語修飾后面的名詞life。enjoyable作形容詞時(shí)，意為“令人愉快的”，符合句意，故答案為enjoyable。