Question

完型填空（共20题，每小题1．5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got The "Help Wanted Unskilled" section．A small advertisement held my   36  ．It read："Easy job．Good wages．No experience  37  ．"it sounded like the job I was   38   ．Easy job．Good Wages．Those four words  39   now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the   40  ．Easy job．Good wages．Easy job．Good Wages．Easy．．．

When I got to the place I saw a series of large  41   half filled with water, out of which I noticed   42   the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes． 43  these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches．All had their   44   in the water of the basin．the left hand holding a   45 and the thumb（拇指）nail of the right hand   46   the labels（标签）on it．

I Sat down On a   47   beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle．As the minutes went by I noticed that the  48   0f the water started to   49   from my hand to my body．But   50  still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was   51   by the minute into a full-blown tomato-colored finger．A numb（麻木）pain began to be felt   52   from my right thumb．Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body．After three hours of this I told the manager I'd   53   ．He figured I had   54   69 cents at 23 cents an hour．

With the money, I left the working place．"Easy job．Good wages．．．．"came to my brain again．Looking at my hands, I  55   myself, "Can easy job get good wages?"

1.A．eyes             B．attention      C．decision       D．breath

2.A．necessary        B．relevant       C．practical      D．primitive

3.A．running after B．looking for       C．heading for D．looking after

4.A．circled          B．moved          C．flashed        D．attacked

5.A．letter           B．sign           C．advertisement D．post

6.A．baskets          B．bowls          C．pots           D．basins

7.A．hiding           B．sticking       C．rising         D．breaking

8.A．In               B．Above          C．Under          D．Around

9.A．arms             B．hands          C．legs           D．feet

10.A．knife           B．snail          C．bottle         D．brush

11.A．painting        B．decorating     C．refreshing     D．scratching

12.A．chair           B．bench          C．bottle         D．sofa

13.A．smell           B．coldness       C．color          D．steam

14.A．spread          B．travel         C．recycle        D．accelerate

15.A．worse           B．better         C．more           D．rather

16.A．going           B．finding        C．growing        D．becoming

17.A．now and then B．here and there    C．one by one     D．little by little

18.A．adapt           B．negotiate      C．bargain        D．quit

19.A．taken           B．offered        C．earned         D．created

20.A．thought         B．asked          C．found          D．hated

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.B

4.C

5.C   

6.D

7.A

8.D

9.B

10.C   

11.D

12.B

13.B

14.A

15.A   

16.C

17.D

18.D

19.C

20.A

【解析】略