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Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very  1 woman. She didn’t buy many jewels(珠宝)or  2 clothes.   3 , she spent millions in  4 a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about Sarah’s  5 was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went on for 38  6 because Sarah was afraid to  7 building it.

Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a lot of  8 arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows,   9 the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000  10 . There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces.

Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting  11 ? It was because Sarah was afraid of  12 . She thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house to be finished.

Sarah Winchester’s  13 seemed to have worked  14 she lived to be 83 years old. But   15 , her house was finished.

1.                A.poor           B.rich            C.useful    D.brave

 

2.                A.cheap          B.expensive       C.simple    D.old

 

3.                A.Still            B.Usually         C.Instead   D.Even

 

4.                A.building        B.buying          C.selling    D.setting

 

5.                A.door           B.window         C.kitchen   D.house

 

6.                A.years          B.months         C.weeks    D.days

 

7.                A.keep           B.enjoy          C.stop D.help

 

8.                A.drivers         B.workers        C.farmers   D.visitors

 

9.                A.but            B.until           C.since D.so

 

10.               A.floors          B.kitchens        C.windows   D.rooms

 

11.               A.bigger          B.smaller         C.stronger   D.cleaner

 

12.               A.working        B.dying          C.living D.growing

 

13.               A.age            B.family          C.plan  D.husband

 

14.               A.or             B.because        C.neither    D.nor

 

15.               A.hardly          B.usefully        C.carefully   D.finally

 

 

1.B 2.B 3.C 4.A 5.D 6.A 7.C 8.B 9.D 10.C 11.A 12.B 13.C 14.B 15.D 【解析】 试题分析:这篇短文描述了一个非常怕死的女人——萨拉温彻斯特。她很富有,但是钱都用来建房子了,因为她很怕死。认为只要房子完工了自己就会死去,因此她的房子建造了38年,直到她死去后房子才完工。 1.联系下文she spent millions in  4 a house 可知她是一个富有的女人,故选B,富有的。 2.联系上下文,可知此处指的是她不买昂贵的衣服,故选B,昂贵的。 3.副词辨析。A. 仍旧;B. 通常;C. 反而,代替;D. 甚至。联系前文,可知前后位转折关系,故选C,她反而花费上亿元建造一所房子。 4.spend用于sb spend. . . on sth或者sb spend. . . in doing sth(in可以省略),spend的主语必须是人,可以指花费时间、也可以指花费金钱;故选A。 5.联系上文,可知此处指的是她的房子,故选D,房子。 6.联系上文描述,可知这项工作持续了38年,故选A,年,岁。 7.结合语境可知她害怕停止建造这所房子,故选C,停止。 8.联系下文,可知此处指的是许多工人到达那里为她工作。故选B,工人们。 9.联系上下文,可知前后是因果关系,后面表示原因,故选D,因此工人们持续地建造他们。 10.联系前文有200扇门,可知此处指的是1000个窗户,故选C,窗户。 11.联系前文,可知她想要房子变得更大,故选A,更大的。 12.联系下文,可知她很害怕死,故选B,死亡。 13.联系上文描述,可知此处指的是她的计划,故选C,计划。 14.连词辨析。A. 或者,否则;B. 因为;C. 两者都不;D. 也不。联系上下文,可知前后只能是因果关系,故选B,因为她活到83岁。 15.联系下文,可知此处指的是最终,她的房子完工了。故选D,终于,最后。 考点:关于一位怕死的女人的记述文
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