Question

【題目】

One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem — how to deal with the kangaroos that jumped out of the cage. They came to the conclusion(結論) that the cage was placed too low and decided to raise it from one to two meters high. But the next day the kangaroos were still found outside and they again raised the cage to three meters.

Quite unexpectedly the next morning they saw the kangaroos still free to go around. They were alarmed and decided to go to all the length by raising the cage to the height of ten meters.

Later a giraffe, while chatting with some kangaroos, asked them, “Do you think they will go on raising your cage?”

“Hard to say,” said a kangaroo, “if they continue forgetting to lock the cage door.”

【1】The staff members keep on raising the cage because_________.

A.kangaroos like to jump highB.they don’t want to lock the cage door

C.kangaroos grow taller and tallerD.they find kangaroos outside the cage every morning

【2】The underlined word “alarmed” in Paragraph 2 means _________ in Chinese.

A.放松的B.警覺的C.害怕的D.鎮(zhèn)定的

【3】What do you think of the staff members of the zoo?

A.Careless.B.Hard-working.C.Foolish.D.Understanding.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【解析】

本文是一篇故事類的記敘文。講述了動物園里的袋鼠總是跑出籠子，工作人員不斷提高籠子高度，但未發(fā)現(xiàn)真正的原因是工作人員總是忘記鎖籠子的門。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段第一句話One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem— how to deal with the kangaroos that jumped out of the cage可知工作人員將籠子不斷提高的原因是袋鼠總是跑到籠子外面，故選D。

【2】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第二段第二句Quite unexpectedly the next morning they saw the kangaroos still free to go around可知，是由于提高籠子兩次之后袋鼠仍然可以跑到籠子外面，這讓他們產(chǎn)生了警覺性，所以再次決定將籠子提高，故選B。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段“Hard to say,” said a kangaroo, “if they continue forgetting to lock the cage door.”可知盡管籠子一直提高但是袋鼠依舊可以跑出的真正原因是工作人員忘記鎖籠子了，可以得知工作人員是粗心的，故選A。

在做詞義推測時，需要注意生詞不是孤立存在的，其詞義與句中其他詞的詞義或具體的語境有著密切的聯(lián)系。因此在閱讀過程中，許多生詞的詞義可以充分利用上下文中相關的詞匯和短語并結合具體的語境來推測。例如第2題，根據(jù)上文，工作人員兩次提高籠子但是袋鼠依舊跑出籠子，因此再次提高籠子的高度，可以合理推斷出alarmed是“警覺的”。