Question

One day a mime(哑剧演员) is visiting the zoo and wants to make some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper drags him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.

         The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep all as he likes, play and make fun of the people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — the job he likes but loses.

         However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience(观众), he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd.

         At the end of the day he is given a pay raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up.

         Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified(吓坏). He starts screaming, “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”

1.How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?

A. Hard and tiring.   B. Dangerous.          C. Easy and fun.                 D. Boring.

2.The mime’s first contact with the lion is to __________.

   A. find pleasure for himself                                    B. get the lion’s attention

   C. get his pay raised                                                D. win back his audience

3.The underlined works “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.

   A. frightening              B. common                         C. exciting                           D. familiar

4.From the last paragraph we can know that ___________.

   A. the lion will eat the poor mime

   B. the lion is also played by a person

   C. the animals in the zoo are all played by people

   D. animals played by people can attract more visitors

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.C

4.B

【解析】本文是一个喜剧故事，告诉我们一个哑剧演员扮演一只大猩猩，在动物园供人娱乐，为了整的观众与隔壁的狮子竞争，结果却发现狮子也是人扮演的。

1.C推断题。根据He soon discovers he can sleep all as he likes, play and make fun of the people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime，可知，他认为这项工作很轻松。

2.D 细节题。根据Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience(观众), he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion’s cage.可知，答案为D。

3.C猜测词义题。fuel燃料，刺激因素。故等同于exciting。

4.B. 推断题。根据文章最后一段可知B项正确。