Question

完形填空 (2015 •北京昌平二模) (15分)

The tail

It began as the worst summer of my life. The evening before the first day of summer vacation,my mother broke the —1 to me.

“Nancy,your father and I decided that you’re old enough now to take on certain responsibilities. You need

to look after Jackie for this summer. ”

“Not that，Mum!That's not fair. All summer with Jackie!I won’t be able to play with my friends. ”

“Life isn’t always 2 . ”

I knew she would say that. Jackie is my seven-year-old brother and has been following me like a tail ever

since he learned how to 3 I'd rather be in school than minding Jackie all day.

“You’ll still be able to play with your friends ,” she continued ,“but Jackie comes first. He is your 4 We’re a family and we all have to help out."

Jackie turned up and raised his right hand. “I promise to do whatever Nancy says. ”

When I was out 5 jumping ropes for the summer competition,he was there in front of me. When I was

riding bikes with friends,he was there，too. “Jackie，you’re not going to be in our faces all day”，I shouted at

him.

“Mum said you have to 6 me,so I have to be in your face. ”

Later on,my friends and I decided to climb the hills which Mum had warned me not to do. We were afraid that Jackie would tell Mum the 7 ，so we lied to him we would play hide and seek (捉迷藏) in the park. But

in fact,we went to the hills leaving Jackie behind. When we came back in an hour,Jackie was nowhere to find.

We checked everywhere in the park,back at home,all the corners of the street ...

“Jackie!” I cried. “You’re my only baby brother. Dear God,please let me find him. I'll play any game he wants. I'll never lie to him …”

Suddenly,we heard some sound up above a big tree. When we looked up,Jackie was there laughing at us.

“So all of you have 8 finding me，yeah? ” …

“Everything's OK，Nancy? Nothing happened?” Mum asked me when she came back from work. “No，Mum. Everything is fine. Nothing happened at all ,” Jackie shouted.

、.參 Well,the summer didn't turn out to be so 9 after all. My parents both got pay rise,my

II friends and I won the rope-jumping competition,and Td play a game with Jackie or read him a ^ story. And Jackie never told my parents that Td lost him. I found out that you 10 miss a tail

until you almost lose it.

1. A. bad news   B. good news   C. long news   D. big news

2. A. exciting   B. surprising   C. busy   D. fair

3. A. speak   B. walk   C. cry   D. eat

4. A. necessity   B. responsibility   C. confidence   D. expectation

5. A. getting   B. playing   C. practising   D. beginning

6. A. watch   B. see   C. keep   D. carry

7. A. reason   B. truth   C. fact   D. story

8. A. agreed   B. believed   C. failed   D. confused

9. A. wonderful   B. lucky   C. terrible   D. dangerous

10. A. always   B. usually   C. sometimes   D. never

Answer 1

 1. A解析:从后面“我不愿意看管Jackie”来看，这是个坏消息。

2. D解析:这是妈妈对“我”抗议的回答：生活中不会处处都是公平的。

3. B解析：自从他学会走路以来就一直跟着“我”，像个尾巴一样甩不掉。

4. B解析：妈妈进一步解释:首先要照顾好Jackie ,这是你的责任。与第二段保持一致。

5. C解析:注意后面提到的compe-tition (比赛) ，所以此处用prastic-ing (训练) 。

6. A解析:句意:妈妈让你看着我，所以我必须在你眼前。

watch关注，看管。

7. B解析：truth真相，指“爬山”这件事。与后面的lie (撒谎) 对比。

8. C解析：弟弟爬到了树上，“我们”没有找到他。

fail失败。

9. C解析：后面提到的都是好事 (父母加薪、“我们”赢了比赛) ，所以这个暑假还不错。

10. D解析:作者的感悟:直到差点儿失去时才懂得珍惜。