Question

    Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named “Lucky”. Whenever friends visited Mary and Jim, they would _________ their friends not to leave their luggage open _________ Lucky would steal treasures and put them in his toy box in the _________.

It happened that Mary found out that she had a _________. The night before she was to go to the hospital, she thought, “If I die, Lucky will be abandoned (抛弃). Lucky won’t understand that I don’t want to _________ him.” The thought made her sadder than thinking of her own _________.

The operation was _________, but Mary had to stay in the hospital for three weeks. _________ the day came for Mary to leave the hospital. When she arrived home, Mary was so _________ that she couldn’t even make up to her bedroom. Jim made his wife comfortable on the __________ and left her to sleep.

Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn’t come to her when she __________. It made Mary sad. But __________ soon overcame her and she fell asleep. When Mary woke, she couldn’t understand what was wrong. She couldn’t __________ her head and her body on the couch, and she felt __________ and hot. But she laughed happily when she __________ the problem. She was covered with every __________ Lucky owned!

While she had slept, the sad dog had made trip after trip to the basement __________ his mistress (女主人) all his favorite things in life. He had covered her with his __________.

Mary forgot about dying. __________, she and Lucky began living again, walking further and further together every day. It’s been 12 years now and Mary is still cancer-free. Lucky? He still steals treasures, but Mary __________ his greatest treasure.

1.A.advise B.persuade C.warn D.force

2.A.after B.while C.when D.because

3.A.basement B.bedroom C.kitchen D.yard

4.A.cold B.cancer C.headache D.stomachache

5.A.keep B.lose C.punish D.leave

6.A.pain B.sadness C.business D.death

7.A.successful B.expensive C.difficult D.painful

8.A.Gradually B.Finally C.Unluckily D.Naturally

9.A.frightened B.disappointed C.tired D.nervous

10.A.floor B.chair C.bed D.couch

11.A.greeted B.smiled C.called D.cried

12.A.sleep B.excitement C.disappointment D.anger

13.A.shake B.move C.raise D.control

14.A.hard B.worried C.heavy D.nervous

15.A.caused B.talked C.solved D.realized

16.A.coin B.treasure C.toy D.thing

17.A.showing B.returning C.visiting D.bringing

18.A.care B.patience C.love D.strength

19.A.Instead B.However C.Certainly D.Surely

20.A.remains B.becomes C.turns D.seems

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.B

5.D

6.D

7.A

8.B

9.C

10.D

11.C

12.A

13.B

14.C

15.D

16.B

17.D

18.C

19.A

20.A

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。主要讲述女主人公玛丽和她的狗Lucky之间的感人故事。

1.考查动词词义辨析。句意：当朋友们访问玛丽和吉姆时，他们会警告他们的朋友不要打开他们的行李，因为Lucky会偷宝物，把他们放在地下室的玩具盒子里。A. advise建议；B. persuade劝说；C. warn警告；D. force迫使。根据下文Lucky会偷宝物，可知玛丽和吉姆会警告他的朋友。故选C项。

2.考查连词词义辨析。句意：当朋友们访问玛丽和吉姆时，他们会警告他们的朋友不要打开他们的行李，因为Lucky会偷宝物，把他们放在地下室的玩具盒子里。A. after在……之后；B. while当……时候，在……期间；C. when当……时候；D. because因为。上下两句构成的是因果关系。故选D项。

3.考查名词词义辨析。句意：当朋友们访问玛丽和吉姆时，他们会警告他们的朋友不要打开他们的行李，因为Lucky会偷宝物，把他们放在地下室的玩具盒子里。A. basement地下室；B. bedroom卧室；C. kitchen厨房；D. yard院子。根据下文可知是在地下室。故选A项。

4.考查名词词义辨析。句意：碰巧玛丽发现她得了癌症。A. cold感冒；B. cancer癌症；C. headache头痛；D. stomachache胃痛。根据下文，她如果死了，Lucky就会被抛弃，可知她得了很严重的病。故选B项。

5.考查动词词义辨析和语境分析。句意：Lucky不会明白我不想离开他。A. keep保存，保留；B. lose失去；C. punish惩罚；D. leave离开。根据上文可知她得了癌症，如果玛丽死了，Lucky就会被抛弃，因为Lucky是条狗，所以它不会理解它的主人不想离开它。故选D项。

6.考查名词词义辨析。句意：这一想法比她想到自己的死亡更伤心。A. pain疼痛；B. sadness悲伤；C. business事务，工作；D. death死亡。根据上下文可知，玛丽不想让Lucky以为是她抛弃了它，她悲伤。故选D项。

7.考查形容词词义辨析。句意：手术很成功，但玛丽不得不在医院呆三个星期。A. successful成功的；B. expensive昂贵的；C. difficult困难的；D. painful疼痛的。根据but可知，前后是转折关系，successful更符合句意。故选A项。

8.考查副词词义辨析。句意：最后，玛丽出院的日子到了。A. Gradually逐渐地；B. Finally最后，最终；C. Unluckily不幸地；D. Naturally自然地。根据上文玛丽需要在医院住三个星期，顺承句意，最后应该是出院的日子到来了。故选B项。

9.考查形容词词义辨析。句意：当玛丽回到家时，她是如此的累以至于都没能整理她的卧室。A. frightened害怕的；B. disappointed失望的；C. tired疲惫的；D. nervous紧张的。根据上文生病住院可知，是很累的。故选C项。

10.考查名词词义辨析。句意：吉姆让妻子舒服地躺在沙发上，然后留下她去睡觉了。A. floor地板；B. chair椅子；C. bed床；D. couch长沙发。根据下文可知，玛丽是躺在沙发上。故选D项。

11.考查动词词义辨析和语境分析。句意：Lucky站着看着玛丽，但玛丽叫它，它没有来找她。A. greeted问候；B. smiled微笑；C. called召唤；D. cried哭泣。根据上文及语境分析，玛丽应该是叫Lucky过来，但Lucky并没有来。故选C项。

12.考查名词词义辨析。句意：但睡意很快战胜了她，她睡着了。A. sleep睡觉，睡意；B. excitement激动；C. disappointment失望；D. anger生气。根据下文she fell asleep相呼应，应该是sleep。故选A项。

13.考查动词词义辨析。句意：她不能在沙发上移动她的头和身体，她感到又重又热。A. shake摇动；B. move移动；C. raise抬起；D. control控制。根据下文Lucky把所有的东西都盖在他主人的身上，可知玛丽不能移动她的头和身体。故选B项。

14.考查形容词词义辨析。句意：她不能在沙发上移动她的头和身体，她感到又重又热。A. hard难的；B. worried担心的；C. heavy重的；D. nervous紧张的。根据下文Lucky把所有的东西都盖在它主人的身上，可知玛丽感到又重又热。故选C项。

15.考查动词词义辨析。句意：但当她意识到这个问题时，她高兴地笑了起来。A. caused引起；B. talked谈话；C. solved解决；D. realized意识到。根据玛丽意识到是Lucky给她盖了所有的东西，她非常开心。故选D项。

16.考查名词词义辨析。句意：她身上盖的是Lucky的所有宝物。A. coin硬币；B. treasure宝物；C. toy玩具；D. thing东西。根据文章开始知道Lucky喜欢偷宝物，可知它给它的主人盖的都是他的宝物。故选B项。

17.考查动词词义辨析。句意：当她睡着的时候，这只悲伤的狗一次又一次地往返地下室，给他的女主人拿来他一生中最喜欢的东西。A. showing展出，展示；B. returning归还；C. visiting参观，拜访；D. bringing带来，拿来。根据上文把所有东西都盖在女主人身上，可知Lucky是去地下室把它喜欢的东西拿来。故选D项。

18.考查名词词义辨析。句意：它用它的爱盖住了她。A. care关心；B. patience耐心；C. love爱；D. strength力量。根据上文Lucky把所有他最喜欢的东西都盖在女主人身上，可知Lucky表现的是对主人的爱。故选C项。

19.考查副词词义辨析。句意：相反，她和Lucky又开始生活了，每天一起走的更远。A. Instead相反；B. However然而；C. Certainly一定，必定；D. Surely的确，确实。根据上文玛丽忘记了死亡这个事，同此句构成相反的含义，instead更确切。故选A项。

20.考查动词词义辨析。句意：它仍然偷宝物，但玛丽仍然是它最大的宝物。A. remains仍然是；B. becomes成为；C. turns变成；D. seems好像是。根据上文Lucky把所有他最喜欢的东西都盖在女主人身上，可知Lucky对主人的爱，再同前半句的still相呼应，remains更符合句意。故选A项。