Question

Nasreddin was a poor man，so he tried to grow________possible in his own garden，so that he would not have to buy so many in the market．

  One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window．A white ox had got into the garden and________his vegetables．Nasreddin at once took his stick，ran out and chased the ox，but he was too old to catch it．When he got back to his garden，he found that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables．

  ________，while he________in the street near his house，he saw a cart with two white oxen which looked very much like the one that________his vegetables．He was carrying his stick with him，________he at once began to beat the two oxen with it．As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other，he beat both of them equally hard．

  The owner of the oxen and the cart was drinking coffee in a_______coffee-house．When he saw________Nasreddin was doing________his animals，he ran out and shouted，“What are you doing？What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that？”

  “You keep out this！”Nasreddin shouted back．“This is a matter between me and one of these two oxen．He knows very well______I am beating him！”

1.A．so many vegetables       B．many vegetables

C．as many as vegetables    D．as many vegetables as

2.A．was eating               B．ate

C．had eaten                D．has eaten

3.A．Next day                 B．Next morning

C．Last morning             D．The next morning

4.A．walks                    B．walked

C．was walking             D．walking

5.A．ruined                   B．had eaten

C．ate                      D．had ruin

6.A．so                       B．for

C．but                        D．or

7.A．beside                   B．nearby

C．near                      D．near by

8.A．that                      B．which

C．why                        D．what

9.A．for                       B．to

C．with                       D．on

10.A．reason                   B．when

C．why                       D．because

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.D

4.C

5.B

6.A

7.B

8.D

9.B

10.C

【解析】

1.1】as many vegetables as possible意为“尽可能多的蔬菜”，故D为正确选项。

2.2】过去进行时强调过去正在进行的动作，根据文意Nasreddin看到牛正在吃蔬菜，故选was eating。

3.3】指过去某一天的第二天早上、晚上，应用the next day／morning／evening，故应选The next morning。

4.4】在从句动作进行的过程中，主句动作发生了，这时从句常用进行时态，故选择was walking。

5.5】牛吃蔬菜是Nasreddin上街之前的事，文章本身讲的是过去的故事，指过去的过去应用过去完成时，故选had eaten。

6.6】从句子意思看，空白处前后构成因果关系，故选择so。

7.7】形容词nearby一般作定语，表示“不远的，附近的”，合乎文意，为正确选项。

8.8】这里需要一个引导词，引导宾语从句，同时在宾语从句中作doing的宾语，故选what。

9.9】do sth to sb结构中to后面常接动作的对象。

10.10】牛主人问及Nasreddin打牛的原因，这里需要一个引导词引导knows的宾语从句，且在从句中作状语，根据上文可知这里应填why。