Question

Recently, my family and I attended a neighborhood oyster(牡蛎)roast. I was more than glad that many people _________together there.

While standing at the large tables_______and eating oysters, I noticed a school-aged boy across the_______from us who was being handed oysters by a _______. Obviously, the boy was having a great deal of _______and displeasure trying to _______them down.

At the beginning, I thought the man wanted the boy to _______the oysters and maybe after some time they would stop._______things were not what I had expected. As we stood there, it continued. With each oyster, the_______of this boy became more and more obvious as he ________tears, struggling to swallow them. I__________learned that the man felt the boy had been disrespectful and this was his________.

Seeing that, I stopped chatting and eating oysters and ________whether to get involved or walk away at first. But then I thought that if the boy were my own child, what should I do? Suddenly a good idea________me. I grabbed(抓住) my daughter and our Frisbee(飞盘)and made our way ________the man and the boy. We introduced ourselves, ________not to know many people there, and invited the boy to come and play Frisbee with us.

The man stared at us for a moment, and then ________it. Immediately the boy’s situation changed. He became ________ and talkative. We pulled another child into our group and played Frisbee for a good 30 minutes together.

It brought me much ________to end the suffering I was witnessing at the moment, and I was fully ________that trying to help in that or any situation where you see suffering is the best thing to do.

1.A. quarreled    B. laughed    C. gathered    D. left

2.A. dancing    B. chatting    C. playing    D. singing

3.A. table    B. room    C. chair    D. desk

4.A. friend    B. relative    C. father    D. man

5.A. fun    B. convenience    C. interest    D. difficulty

6.A. swallow    B. drink    C. bring    D. throw

7.A. smell    B. test    C. try    D. avoid

8.A. Thus    B. But    C. So    D. Indeed

9.A. excitement    B. suffering    C. eagerness    D. skillfulness

10.A. fought back    B. held on    C. backed off    D. slipped away

11.A. also    B. just    C. later    D. already

12.A. award    B. reward    C. return    D. punishment

13.A. chose    B. expected    C. hesitated    D. prepared

14.A. beat    B. struck    C. defeated    D. won

15.A. apart from    B. by way of    C. in the front of    D. next to

16.A. pretending    B. wishing    C. deciding    D. intending

17.A. allowed    B. refused    C. agreed    D. thought

18.A. serious    B. shy    C. worried    D. friendly

19.A. interest    B. argument    C. relief    D. confusion

20.A. warned    B. convinced    C. reminded    D. informed

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.D

5.D

6.A

7.C

8.B

9.B

10.A

11.C

12.D

13.C

14.B

15.D

16.A

17.A

18.D

19.C

20.B

【解析】本文讲述了作者在一次聚会时帮助一个男孩摆脱了受人惩罚的处境，这使作者感到非常的宽慰。

1.考查动词。A. quarreled争吵；B. laughed笑；C. gathered聚集；D. left离开。句意：我非常高兴许多人聚集在那里。故选C。

2.考查动词。A. dancing跳舞；B. chatting聊天；C. playing玩耍；D. singing唱歌。句意：当站在大桌边，边吃牡蛎边聊天。故选B。

3.考查名词。A. table桌子；B. room房间；C. chair椅子；D. desk椅子。此处across the table意为“桌子对面”，作者发现桌子对面有一个学生模样的男孩。故选A。

4.考查名词。A. friend朋友；B. relative亲戚；C. father父亲；D. man男人。根据第三段“I thought the man wanted the boy”可知，此处是原词复现，故选D。

5.考查名词。A. fun乐趣；B. convenience便利，方便；C. interest兴趣；D. difficulty困难。根据此处and前后一致的原则可知，后面是displeasure（不愉快），故前面也要选一个意思相近的词，排除前三个选项，选D。

6.考查动词。A. swallow吞；B. drink喝；C. bring带来；D. throw丢。句意：男孩对牡蛎难以下咽。故选A。

7.考查动词。A. smell闻；B. test检测；C. try尝试；D. avoid避免。一开始我以为这个人只是想让这个男孩尝一下这个牡蛎，故选C。

8.考查连词。A. Thus因此；B. But但是；C. So因此；D. Indeed的确。句意：但是事情并不是我所期待的那样。前后是转折关系，故选B。

9.考查名词。A. excitement激动，兴奋；B. suffering受苦，遭难，痛苦的事；C. eagerness渴望；D. skillfulness娴熟。句意：这个男孩所遭受的痛苦就越来越明显，故选B。

10.考查动词短语。A. fought back反击，抵抗；B. held on坚持，别挂断；C. backed off后退；D. slipped away溜走。fight back tears为固定用法，意思是“憋住眼泪”，故选A。

11.考查副词。A. also也；B. just刚，仅仅；C. later之后；D. already已经。句意：我之后知道了这个男人认为这个男孩不礼貌，这是对他的惩罚。故选C。

12.考查名词。A. award奖；B. reward酬金；C. return回来；D. punishment惩罚。根据上题所给句意可知，答案为D。

13.考查动词。A. chose选择；B. expected期待；C. hesitated犹豫；D. prepared准备。句意：我停止交谈也没有吃牡蛎了，在犹豫是否要参与到他们中去还是走开。故选C。

14.考查动词。A. beat击打，心脏的跳动；B. struck击打；C. defeated击败；D. won赢。此处是考查strike的用法，意为‘（想法等）产生于某人的头脑中’。句意：突然我有了一个好主意。故选B。

15.考查介词短语。A. apart from除……之外；B. by way of经，由；C. in the front of 在……前部；D. next to紧邻；在……近旁。我们从那个男孩和男人旁边的路走去。选D。

16.考查现在分词。A. pretending假装；B. wishing希望；C. deciding决定；D. intending意欲，计划。我们介绍了我们自己，假装不知道那儿有许多人。故选A。

17.考查动词。A. allowed允许；B. refused拒绝；C. agreed同意；D. thought认为。根据后面的描述可知，那个男人同意了。agree是不及物动词，带宾语需接相应的介词，故排除，故选A。

18.考查形容词。A. serious严重的；B. shy害羞的；C. worried担心的；D. friendly友好的。男孩的处境改善了，根据and后的talkative可知，前面也要选一个基调一致的词，故选D。

19.考查名词。A. interest兴趣；B. argument议论；C. relief宽慰，安心；D. confusion困惑。结束此刻我目睹的痛苦给我带来了许多的宽慰，故选C。

20.考查动词。A. warned警告；B. convinced使相信，说服；C. reminded提醒；使想起；D. informed通知。句意：我完全相信在你看到苦难的任何情况下试图去帮助是能做的最好的事情。故选B。

【名师点睛】

词汇复现包括原词复现、同义词复现、同根词复现、概括词复现以及结构复现等。完形填空所选的文章都是具有逻辑关系、意义相连的语篇，因此，在行文中不可避免地会出现词语的复现、前后同义或反义、相互照应等现象。所以，解题时应联系上下文寻找相关线索，如某一个词的原词、指代词、同义词、近义词、上义词、下义词和概括词等。但由于我们在做题时不可能总是重复地阅读文章，因此，在做完形填空时要培养一种捕捉并记忆相关信息的能力。

比如第四题就是原词复现：

……who was being handed oysters by a ___4___.可根据第三段“I thought the man wanted the boy”此句中的man就是复现的词，故选man这个词。