Question

【題目】 A restaurant had one fallen upon hard times. Only five_________ were left: the manager and four others, all over 60 years old.

In the town near the restaurant there lived a successful businessman who was good at managing business, so the manager_______to ask the businessman if he could offer any advice that might save the restaurant. The manager and the businessman talked for a long period of time, but when he was asked for advice, the businessman _______for a while and then said, “I have no advice to give. The only thing I can tell you is that the saver (救星) is one of you.”

The manager, returning to the restaurant_______, told the other people what the businessman had said. In the months that___________, the old restaurant workers thought carefully of the words of the businessman, “The saver is one of us?” They asked themselves. As they thought about this possibility, they all began to treat each other with_______respect(尊重). And thinking that each of themselves might be the saver, they also began to treat themselves with more care.

As time went by, people coming to the restaurant_________that some respect and warm kindness were around the five old members of the small restaurant. Hardly knowing _______, more people began to come back to the restaurant. They began to bring their friends, and theirs brought more friends. Two _____________ later, the small restaurant had once again become a big food company, thanks to the businessman’s________. They understood that it was they themselves that were the savers.

【1】A. cooksB. waitersC. membersD. customers

【2】A. hopedB. beganC. allowedD. decided

【3】A. stoppedB. refusedC. restedD. laughed

【4】A. angrilyB. hopefullyC. livelyD. nervously

【5】A. followingB. followedC. goingD. gone

【6】A. strangeB. similarC. strongD. special

【7】A. receivedB. advisedC. feltD. wished

【8】A. whatB. howC. whyD. when

【9】A. yearsB. daysC. hoursD. minutes

【10】A. adviceB. wordsC. methodsD. success

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】A

【4】B

【5】B

【6】D

【7】C

【8】C

【9】A

【10】B

【解析】

短文大意：本文講述了一個瀕臨倒閉的小餐館起死回生的故事，說明彼此尊重并善待他人才是成功的根本。

【1】句意：只剩下五個人:經(jīng)理和另外四個人，都超過了60歲。

考查名詞辨析。A. 廚師；B. 服務(wù)員；C. 成員；D. 顧客。冒號起解釋說明的作用，根據(jù)the manager and four others,可知members切合句意，故選C。

【2】句意：他擅長經(jīng)營生意，所以經(jīng)理決定問這位商人是否能提供一些可以挽救餐館的建議。

考查動詞辨析。A. 希望；B. 開始；C. 允許；D. 決定。根據(jù)句意語境，自己的餐館面臨倒閉，可知經(jīng)理決定向這位成功的商人請教，decide（決定）符合句意，故選D。

【3】句意：商人停了一會兒，然后說:“我沒有建議。我能告訴你的唯一一件事是，那個拯救者就是你們中的一個�！�

考查動詞辨析。A. 停止；B. 拒絕；C. 休息；D. 大笑。but但是，表轉(zhuǎn)折；根據(jù)下文and then said,可知stopped for a while符合語境，故選A。

【4】句意：經(jīng)理滿懷希望地回到餐館，把商人的話告訴了其他人。

考查副詞辨析。A. 憤怒地；B. 充滿希望地；C. 活潑地；D. 緊張地。根據(jù)上文商人的話The only thing I can tell you is that the saver is one of you.可知經(jīng)理看到了希望，故選B。

【5】句意：在接下來的幾個月里，老餐館的工作人員仔細地思考了這位商人的話。

考查動詞辨析。follow接著…發(fā)生，go去；根據(jù)句意可知go不合句意，可排除CD兩項。本句that_____5_____做months的定語，是定語從句，從句缺謂語動詞；結(jié)合主句the old restaurant workers thought carefully是一般過去時態(tài)，從句也用一般過去時，following是現(xiàn)在分詞，不可獨立作謂語，故選B。

【6】句意：當(dāng)他們想到這種可能性時，他們都開始以特別的尊重來對待彼此。

考查形容詞辨析。A. 奇怪的；B. 相似的；C. 強壯的；D. 特別的。根據(jù)下文they also began to treat themselves with more care.可知他們特別尊重彼此，故選D。

【7】句意：隨著時間的推移，來到這家餐館的人們感到，這家小餐館的五位老成員周圍有了一些尊敬和令人溫暖的善意。

考查動詞辨析。A. 收到；B. 通知；C. 感覺；D. 希望。根據(jù)句意語境，可知ABD三項意思都不合句意，故選C。

【8】句意：不知為什么，越來越多的人開始回到這家餐館。

考查疑問詞辨析。A. 什么，表事情；B.怎么，表方式；C. 為什么，表原因；D. 什么時候，表時間。根據(jù)句意語境，不知為什么很多人成了回頭客，可知ABD三項意思不合語境，故選C。

【9】句意：兩年后，小餐館再次成為一個大食品公司。

考查名詞辨析。A. 年；B. 日；C. 小時；D. 分鐘。根據(jù)句意語境，可知是兩年后，BCD三項不合語境，故選A。

【10】句意：多虧這位商人的話，這家小餐館又成了一家大食品公司。

考查名詞辨析。A. 建議；B. 話語；C. 方法；D. 成功。thanks to多虧，根據(jù)前文In the months that followed, the old restaurant workers thought carefully of the words of the businessman可知是多虧了商人的話，故選B。