Question

Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family and no one to love her. So she often   21   sad and lonely.

One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small   22   was trapped unluckily in a bush. The butterfly tried to fly away   23   failed. The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care. Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned   24   a beautiful fairy (仙女). The little girl was very   25  .

“Thank you for   26   me. You are so kind. I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.

The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be   27  !”

The fairy said, “Very well. I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl’s ear. Then the fairy disappeared.

As the kind little girl grew up, she was   28   ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers. No one in the village was as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the   29   of her happiness. She always smiled and   30  , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind   31   when I was a little girl.”

When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the   32   all gathered (聚拢) around her bed because they were   33   that her secret of happiness would die with her. They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”

The lovely old woman still   34   and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or   35  . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”

1.A. thought            B. found            C. sounded          D. felt

2.A. butterfly      B. bird         C. snake                D. squirrel

3.A. so             B. or           C. but              D. as

4.A. on             B. up           C. into                 D. down

5.A. surprised      B. tired            C. mad              D. angry

6.A. catching       B. beating      C. killing              D. saving

7.A. active         B. happy            C. energetic            D. humorous

8.A. always         B. never            C. seldom           D. hardly

9.A. success            B. secret           C. power                D. lesson

10.A. asked         B. hoped            C. answered         D. refused

11.A. witch         B. fairy            C. ghost                D. princess

12.A. village           B. town         C. city             D. world

13.A. excited           B. pleased      C. glad             D. afraid

14.A. shouted           B. cried            C. smiled               D. jumped

15.A. young         B. great            C. nice             D. quiet

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.C

5.A

6.D

7.B

8.A

9.B

10.C

11.B

12.A

13.D

14.C

15.A

【解析】短文属于记叙文。主要讲述了一个女孩救了一只蝴蝶，因此得到快乐的秘诀的故事。

1.“feel+形容词”表示“感觉、感到……”。

2.根据下一句中的“The butterfly”可知。

3.“努力飞走”和“失败”是转折关系，用but。

4.固定短语：turn into“变成”。

5.亲眼目睹“蝴蝶变成仙女”，可以推测女孩非常“惊讶”。

6.从第二段“The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care.”可知，女孩救过仙女（当时是蝴蝶），她因此而感谢。

7.后面内容一直围绕女孩一生快乐在讲述。由此可知，她当初的愿望就是想happy“快乐”，而且仙女成全了她。

8.根据短文最后一句“helping others would make me happy all my life.”可知，她乐于助人，才快乐；使用always“总是”。

9.根据后一句“The secret of my happiness”可知。

10.前面是问题，后面是回答，因此用“…answered”。

11.根据下一段最后一句“Please tell us what the kind fairy said”可知：女孩当时说话内容中提到的是这个仙女。

12.从第六段第一句“the kind little girl…was popular among the villagers”可知，她生活在村子里，围拢来的邻居是这个村子里的。

13.通过上下文可知，大家想知道“快乐的秘诀”，害怕女孩死后秘诀也随着消失。

14.从第六段“She always smiled and…”可知，这是她的习惯，临终前也照旧微笑，这也正体现了她的快乐。

15.前面是“rich or poor”，此处是old和young进行对比，no matter how old or young是“无论老幼”的意思。