Question

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Alice, my friend’s daughter, goes to an expensive private school where she has a friend, Jane, who is on a full scholarship at this school. Jane has   1economic resources—her father has been dead for years and her mother works   2a maid. Although her mother works very hard, she can   3support the family. Jane is very bright and gifted at   4and that’s how she has got the scholarship, which included a(n)   5for things like lunch, school uniform and music lessons.

Alice became friends with Jane and would   6talk to her at lunch. She did it that way in order to avoid the other kids   7her. 

On her birthday last month, she   8her new friend to her birthday party, but Jane said she couldn’t come. Alice wanted her to be   9so much that she   10on her coming. Eventually, the girl said, “I don’t have any   11clothes that I could wear at your birthday party.” After a brief pause, the girl remembered, “I have a   12from my piano performance,” and asked, “Could I   13a skirt from you?”

Alice was happy that her friend would be   14to come and hurried home to ask her Mum   15she could lend her friend one of her skirts. To her surprise, her Mum said, “No.” The daughter was very   16and angrily said to her Mum, “  17I could, I would give my friend all my clothes.” The Mother didn’t understand why her daughter should have had such an outburst as she’s normally very well   18. 

Finally, Alice explained to her Mother her friend’s   19.  Her Mother immediately changed her mind and said, “Yes.” She also encouraged her daughter not to feel like she should secretly be friends with Jane but to feel proud of her   20with her. 

So the true friendship seeks to give, not to take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.

1.A. personal       B. extra            C. limited          D. adequate

2.A. for            B. with                 C. like             D. as

3.A. hopefully      B. obviously            C. hardly               D. temporarily

4.A. music          B. drawing          C. maths                D. biology

5.A. bonus          B. allowance            C. donation         D. pension

6.A. secretly       B. happily          C. quietly              D. eagerly

7.A. pointing at        B. shouting at      C. laughing at          D. glaring at

8.A. took           B. invited              C. accompanied      D. sent

9.A. happy          B. independent      C. confident            D. present

10.A. depended      B. insisted         C. focused          D. agreed

11.A. casual            B. comfortable          C. nice             D. tight

12.A. shirt             B. jeans                C. handbag          D. necklace

13.A. get           B. copy             C. order                D. borrow

14.A. free              B. able             C. glad                 D. willing

15.A. how           B. when             C. why              D. whether

16.A. stubborn          B. upset            C. firm             D. enthusiastic 

17.A. If                B. When             C. Unless           D. Though

18.A. treated           B. controlled       C. educated             D. behaved

19.A. cleverness        B. character            C. circumstances        D. competences

20.A. study        B. friendship           C. sympathy         D. performance 

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.C

4.A

5.B

6.A

7.C

8.B

9.D

10.B       

11.C

12.A

13.D

14.B

15.D   

16.B

17.A

18.D

19.C

20.B