Question

Martin is an American boy. He is eight years old. His parents       five years ago and he is now living with his grandmother in New York.

  One morning, Jimmy, one of his classmates, came to his home with an exercises book in his hand. Jimmy lives in a house not far from Martin's. They often go to school together. 

"Would you help me with this maths problem?" Jimmy said as soon as he came into the room. "It's too hard for me and I can't work it out."

"Let me try, " Martin said. "I          it isn't too hard for me. " Martin tried his best but he couldn’t work it out,         . 

"If we had a small computer,  all the problems would be         for us to do. " Jimmy said.

"A small computer. . . , " Martin thought for a minute,  then he said, "I've got an idea. We can         one in a shop. "

"A computer is very          , and we don’t have enough money. "

"That's OK," said Martin. "We can ask the new president         some money. He said he would help anyone in trouble. I' m sure he will help us. He is very rich, you know."

So they decided to write a letter to the new president. Soon the letter was finished and they hurried to the post office. In front of the post office stood a small box. They         the letter into the box carefully and went home happily. 

The next morning ,they         he post office on their way to school. They found,__­­­­­______,  the box was not a post box but trash-box(果皮箱).

1.A. have died           B. had died           C. died               D. have been death

2.A. sure                B. think              C. hope               D. wish

3.A. neither               B. either              C. too                 D. also

4.A. easy enough                        B. enough easy

C. difficult enough                    D. enough difficult

5.A. borrow              B. lend               C. bring               D. buy 

6.A. expensive         B. cheap                 C. important          D. useful

7.A. to                    B. for                C. about               D. on

8.A. place                B. take                C. dropped             D. bring

9.A. passed             B. past                 C. pasted              D. passing

10.A. with their surprise                  B. in their surprise 

C. to their surprise                      D. of their surprise

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.B

4.A

5.D

6.A

7.B

8.C

9.A

10.C

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文讲述了Martin不能帮助别人解决题目，于是他们想要台电脑来解题。但电脑很贵，他们买不起，于是想起写信给总统要求帮忙。他们把信写好放到邮局前面的盒子里。但第二天发现那个盒子不是邮箱而是垃圾箱。

1.考查动词与语境理解。结合选项词意，此句为：他父母五年前去世了，他现在和奶奶生活在纽约。Die，去世，动词，过去式为died。根据句中的ago，用一般过去式，故选C。

2.考查动词与语境理解。这里指的是希望题目不难，句意：但愿对我来说不。A肯定；B想；C希望；D祝愿，故选C。

3.考查副词与语境理解。根据前文 he couldn’t work it out他不能解答。是否定句，故选B，也，用语否定句中；A两者都不；C也，用于肯定句；D也，不用在句末。

4.考查形容词与语境理解。根据前文，有电脑的话问题就简单了，此句为：如果我们有台小电脑，所有问题对我们就足够简单了。Enough足够，修饰形容词时放在形容词后面；easy容易；difficult困难；故选A。

5.考查动词与语境理解。根据后面in the shop商店里，此句为：我们可以在商店里买一个。One 指代电脑；A借进；B借出；C带来；D买；故选D。

6.考查形容词与语境理解。根据后文we don’t have enough money. 我们么有足够的钱；此句为：电脑很贵。A贵的；B便宜；C重要；D有用；故选A。

7.考查介词与语境理解。这里指是的要钱，ask sb. for sth.向某人要某物，介词用for，故选B。句意：我们可以向总统要点钱。

8.考查动词与语境理解。这里指的是把信放进盒子，句意：他们小心地把信放到盒子里然后开心地回家了。A地方；B拿走；C放下；D带来，故选C。

9.考查动词与语境理解。根据后文on their way to school他们去学校的路上，结合选项词意；此句为：他们在去学校的路上经过邮局。A经过；是pass的过去式；B过去的；C膏的；D经过，是pass的ing形式，句中用过去式，故选A。

10.考查短语与语境理解。结合选项词意，此句为：另他们吃惊的是，那个盒子不是邮箱而是垃圾箱。To one’s surprise另某人惊讶的是，介词用to，故选C。

考点：故事类短文。