Question

完形填空(本题共15小题；每小题l分，满分l5分)

There once was a boy who loved eating sweets. He     asked for sweets from his father. His father was a       man and they lived in a very old house. He could not always       sweets for his son. But the little boy did not    this, and demanded sweets all the time.

The boy’s father thought hard about       to stop the child asking for so many sweets. There was a very holy(神圣的) man living nearby at that time. The boy’s father had a(n)     .He decided to take the boy to the great man who might       persuade(说服) the child to stop asking for sweets all the time. The boy and his father went along to the      man. The father said to him, “Oh, great saint, could you ask my son to stop asking for sweets which I cannot afford?” The great man was in       , because he liked sweets himself. How could he ask the boy to give up asking for sweets? The holy man told the father to      his son back after one month.

During that month, the holy man gave up eating sweets, and when the boy and his father     after a month, the holy man said to the boy “My dear child, will you stop asking for sweets which your father cannot afford to give you?”      , the boy stopped asking for sweets.

The boy’s         asked the saint, “Why didn’t you ask my son to give up asking for sweets       we came to you a month ago?” The holy man replied, “How could I ask a boy to give up sweets when I loved sweets myself. In the last month I gave up eating sweets.”

A person’s       is much more powerful than just his words.

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

2.A. rich              B. honest        C. kind          D. poor

3.A. make              B. accept        C. afford         D. find

4.A. ignore             B. understand     C. remember      D. change

5.A. what              B. where         C. why          D. how

6.A. excuse             B. surprise       C. idea          D. proverb

7.A. can               B. was able to     C. be able to      D. could

8.A. young             B. strong         C. great         D. ugly

9.A. difficulty           B. peace         C. danger        D. tears

10.A. call                B. turn          C. get           D. bring

11.A. returned            B. asked         C. left          D. disappeared

12.A. Up to no B. Sooner or later  C. In other words  D. From then on

13.A. sister              B. brother        C. father         D. mother

14.A. when              B. because       C. until          D. though

15.A. success            B. history        C. future         D. action

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.B

5.D

6.C

7.C

8.C

9.A

10.D

11.A

12.D

13.C

14.A

15.D

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了一位小男孩特别喜欢吃糖，而他的爸爸很穷没有钱一直提供。于是爸爸找到一位神圣的男人帮忙，但是那个人也喜欢吃糖，一个月后他戒掉吃糖以后才帮忙让那个小男孩也不再给爸爸要糖吃。这篇文章告诉我们实际行动更有说服力。

1.； B从来不；C几乎不； D 很少，罕见。故选A

2.；B诚实的；C温柔的； D贫穷的故选D

3.

4.；B理解；C记得；D改变。故选B

5.

6.；B.惊喜；C.主意；D.谚语，格言。根据语境父亲想到一个好主意。an idea故选C.

7.

8.

9.

10.；B 转；C 得到；D bring 带走。 故选D

11.；B询问；C留下；D消失。故选A

12.；B 不久以后；C 换句话说；D从那以后。根据语境，故选D

13.

14.；B因为； C直到……才；D尽管。故选A

15.；B历史；C未来；D行动。故选D

考点：情感故事类短文。