Question

    Jenlins was a jeweler, who had made, large diamond ring worth 57,000 pounds for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked __ like the first one but was worth only 2,000 pounds. This he took to the shop, which ___ it without a question.

Jenkins gave the much more ___ ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife ___ to Paris for a weekend. As to the __ ring, the shop sold it for 60,000 pounds.

Six months later the buyer __ it back to Silkstone's office. “It's a faulty diamond,” he said. “It isn't worth the high ____ I paid.” Then he told them the ____ . His wife's car had caught fire in an ___ .She had escaped, ___the ring had fallen off and been damaged in the great __ of the fire.

The shop had to __ . They knew that no fire on earth can ____ damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the ____ diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who ____ it?

A picture of the ring appeared in the ____ .A reader thought he ___ the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which ___ a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman ___a large diamond ring. “Do you know the ____ with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.

1.A.exactly B.surely C.nearly D.only

2.A.refused B.received C.accepted D.rejected

3.A.actual B.modern C.worthy D.valuable

4.A.flew B.drove C.sailed D.bicycled

5.A.first B.second C.last D.next

6.A.sold B.brought C.posted D.returned

7.A.cost B.money C.price D.value

8.A.facts B.matters C.questions D.results

9.A.affair B.experience C.incident D.accident

10.A.otherwise B.but C.so D.because

11.A.pile B.heat C.power D.pressures

12.A.think B.agree C.permit D.promise

13.A.almost B.even C.just D.ever

14.A.real B.pure C.right D.exact

15.A.copied B.did C.stole D.made

16.A.notices B.magazines C.newspapers D.programmes

17.A.saw B.knew C.found D.recognized

18.A.showed B.drew C.printed D.carried

19.A.carrying B.dressing C.wearing D.holding

20.A.dancer B.woman C.reader D.jeweler

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.B

6.B

7.C

8.A

9.D

10.B

11.B

12.B

13.D

14.A

15.B

16.C

17.D

18.A

19.C

20.B

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了珠宝商詹金斯给珠宝店做了一枚赝品钻戒，而偷偷把真品留了下来送给妻子，在一次大火中假钻戒露了馅，结果在登机时被人认出来而获刑的故事。

1.考查副词词义辨析。句意：当把它做好的时候，他又做了一个赝品，看起来和第一个一模一样，但只值2000英镑。A. exactly正是、精确地；B. surely必定；C. nearly几乎；D. only仅仅。为了达到以假乱真的目的，当然要使赝品极像真品，故A项正确。

2.考查动词词义辨析。句意：他把它拿到珠宝店里去，珠宝店毫不迟疑地收下了。A. refused拒绝；B. received收到；C. accepted接受；D. rejected拒绝。正因为他做的赝品极像真品，所以店主才毫不迟疑地接受了，故C项正确。

3.考查形容词词义辨析。句意：詹金斯在妻子四十岁生日时把这枚值钱得多的（更有价值的）戒指送给了她。A. actual实际的；B. modern现代的；C. worthy有价值的（强调主观认为）；D. valuable有价值的（强调事物本身的价值，多指贵重物品）。这枚戒指十分昂贵，此处强调戒指本身的价值，故D项正确。

4.flew飞；B. drove开车；C. sailed航行；D. bicycled骑行。根据下文中的“walking out to a plane for Paris”可知，夫妇二人是乘飞机飞往巴黎的，故A项正确。

5.考查形容词词义辨析。句意：至于第二枚戒指，商店卖了6万英镑。A. first第一个；B. second第二个；C. last最后的；D. next下一个。上文说这位珠宝商是先做了一个价值57000英镑的钻石戒指(这是the first one)，然后照此做了个仿制品(这是the second one)，故B项正确。

6.考查动词词义辨析。句意：六个月后，买主把它带回了珠宝店的办公室。A. sold卖；B. brought带来；C. posted张贴；D. returned返回。根据空后的讲述可知，指戒指买主带着在大火中受损的赝品戒指到珠宝店退货，故B项正确。

7.考查名词词义辨析。句意：它不值得我付出那么高的价钱。A. cost花销；B. money金钱；C. price价格、代价；D. value价值。来退货自然是因为商品不值得这个价，注意该句中的high和pay这两个词，能与它们搭配且意义通顺的只有price，故C项正确。

8.考查名词词义辨析。句意：然后他告诉他们事实。A. facts事实；B. matters事情；C. questions问题；D. results结果。空后是陈述事情的经过，即事实，故A项正确。

9.考查名词词义辨析。句意：他妻子的车在一次事故中着火了，她逃了出来，但戒指掉了下来，在大火中受损。A. affair事务；B. experience经历；C. incident事件；D. accident事故。汽车起火，当然是出了事故，故D项正确。

10.考查连词词义辨析。句意同上。A. otherwise不然；B. but但是；C. so所以；D. because因为。在这次事故中，妻子逃了出来，戒指却掉了下来，前后是转折关系，故B项正确。

11.考查名词词义辨析。句意同上。A. pile堆；B. heat高温；C. power力量；D. pressures压力。戒指在大火中受损自然是由于大火产生的高温，故B项正确。

12.考查动词词义辨析。句意：商店不得不同意。A. think认为；B. agree同意；C. permit许可；D. promise承诺。空后说他们知道地球上没有火能烧毁一颗完美的钻戒，因此在事实面前，店主不得不同意，故B项正确。

13.考查副词词义辨析。句意：他们知道地球上没有火能破坏一颗完美的钻戒。A. almost几乎；B. even甚至；C. just仅仅；D. ever曾经。根据常识可知，大火是不能烧毁钻石的，no ever表示”未曾”，故D项正确。

14.考查形容词词义辨析。句意：有人拿走了真钻石，放了一颗假钻石。A. real真正的；B. pure纯的；C. right对的；D. exact精确的。与空后的faulty(假的)相对的自然是real(真的)，故A项正确。

15.考查动词词义辨析。句意：问题是：谁干的？A. copied复制；B. did做、干；C. stole偷；D. made制作。从语境上看，其后的it指的是“had taken the real diamond and put a faulty one in its place”这件事，而不是指diamond ring 这个东西，所以要选did这个动词，故B项正确。

16.考查名词词义辨析。句意：报纸上登了一张戒指的照片。A. notices通知；B. magazines杂志；C. newspapers报纸；D. programmes节目。根据下文中的“in the papers”可知，报纸上登了一张戒指的照片，故C项正确。

17.考查动词词义辨析。句意：一位读者认为他认出了戒指。A. saw看见；B. knew知道；C. found发现；D. recognized认出。根据下文中的“Do you know the ___20___ with the lovely diamond ring?”可知，这个读者认出了这枚戒指，故D项正确。

18.考查动词词义辨析。句意：第二天，报纸上又刊登了一张照片，照片上有一位著名的舞蹈演员登上飞往巴黎的飞机。A. showed显示；B. drew画；C. printed打印；D. carried搬运。空后的“a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris.”是照片上的内容，因此此处表示“显示”，故A项正确。

19.考查动词词义辨析。句意：那位舞蹈演员身后的女人戴着一枚大钻戒。A. carrying搬运；B. dressing打扮；C. wearing戴；D. holding握。戒指应该是戴在手上的，故C项正确。

20.考查名词词义辨析。句意：你认识那个戴着钻戒的女人吗？A. dancer舞者；B. woman女人；C. reader读者；D. jeweler珠宝商。上文说那位舞蹈演员身后的女人戴着一枚大钻戒，此处指的是就是那个女人，故B项正确。