Question

One evening, Mr Green was driving his car along a lonely country road. He had ___1___ $10 000 from the bank in town. Suddenly a man in rags stopped him and asked for ___2___. Mr Green told him to get on and continued his way. ___3___ he talked to the man, he ___4___ that he had just broken out of prison. Mr Green was very afraid at the ___5___ of the money. Suddenly he saw a police－car and had a ___6___ idea. He ___7___ speed and drove as quickly as possible. Then he found the police-car running ___8___ him. After a mile ___9___ the police-car passed him and ordered him to stop. A policeman came up. Mr Green had hoped to tell him about the trouble but the man put a gun to Mr Green’s ___10___.
The policeman said he wanted Mr Green’s name and ___11___ and Mr Green obeyed. The policeman wrote it down in his notebook and put it in his ___12___. “You ___13___ appear at the police station. “ He said. Then he talked to Mr Green about ___14___ driving. Mr Green started up his car again. He had ___15___ all hope of his ￡10,000, but as he reached a more lonely part, the robber said he wanted to ___16___. Mr Green stopped and the man said. “___17___. You’ve been ___18___ to me. This is what I can do in ___19___.” And he handed Mr Green the policeman’s ___20___, which was stolen while the policeman was talking to Mr Green.
1. A. taken      B. held    C. brought      D. drawn
2. A. money    B. help    C. a lift   D. a ride
3. A. As   B. Since  C. Then   D. Because
4. A. recognized     B. learned       C. supposed    D. expected
5. A. sight      B. idea    C. touch  D. thought
6. A. fast B. bright C. strange       D. bad
7. A. put on    B. got on C. took on      D. had on
8. A. behind    B. with    C. after   D. beside
9. A. and so    B. or so   C. and so on   D. or so on
10. A. head     B. shoulder     C. back   D. neck
11. A. number B. home  C. place   D. address
12. A. car       B. pocket C. hand   D. trousers
13. A. shall     B. will    C. would D. need
14. A. careful  B. normal       C. drunk  D. dangerous
15. A. held out       B. build up   C. given up     D. turn over
16. A. run away     B. break away C. set out D. get out
17. A. I’m sorry     B. You’re welcome      C. That’s all right   D. Thank you
18. A. kind     B. polite  C. known       D. necessary
19. A. all B. fact   C. return D. the end
20. A. gun      B. pen     C. money       D. notebook

Answer 1

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1. D。take 意为“拿走，带去”，与句意不符；draw 意为“提取、领取”，可用于在银行取款。
2. C。a lift 意为“搭便车”，与题意吻合。
3. A。as 意为“当…时”。
4. B。learn 意为“获悉、认识到”。此句意为：当司机和那搭车人谈话时，意识到此人是从监狱逃跑的。
5. D。at the thought of 意为“一想到”。此句意为：一想到钱司机就非常害怕。
6. B。a bright idea 意为“一个巧主意”。
7. A。put on speech 意为“加速”，与后面drove as quickly as possible相一致。
8. C。run after 意为“跟随、跟踪”。
9. B。or so 意为“大约、左右。表示警察大约跟踪了一英里左右。
10. C。从当时的情景分析可知：警察在询问司机时，逃犯为了避免警察发现，只能用枪对准司机的背部(back)隐蔽处，不可能对准警察看得到的部位。
11. D。警察记录的是司机的姓名和住址(address)
12. B。记录本应放在警察的衣袋里，逃犯才可能偷得到。
13. A。shall用于第二人称，有命令的语气。
14. D。dangerous 意为“危险的”，这里有两个意思：一是开车快危险；二是车有逃犯在车上开车危险。
15. C。give up 意为“放弃”，显然司机只理解了警察的的话的第一个意思，所以他对他的钱的安全失望了。
16. D。由下文可知：逃犯要下车(get out)。
17. D。由于上下文可知：逃犯认为司机很友好，没有告密，所以十分感谢他(Thank you)。
18. A。司机没有告密，在逃犯看来司机是很友好的(kind)。
19. C。既然司机救了逃犯，逃犯十分感激，所以想做件好事(把警察的记录本还给警察)作为回报(in return)。
20. D。由后面的定语从句可知：交给司机的东西是警察的记录本。