Question

A black car rushed around the busy street corner, towards the courthouse. The dark       window rolled down and a semi-automatic        stuck out.

   Pauly Gillespie, a government protected witness (目击者), stood      , seeing death walking toward him. Pauly’s FBI bodyguards       themselves on top of him, but two     were fired and Pauly was hit       the shoulder.

   The car       across two lanes (车道) of traffic. Then it turned left down a path and got __    behind a large truck. The two men in the car       out and raced away ---      into the arms of four policemen.

         Special agent (特工) Brown was new to the police unit and was told to    __ the car out of the path so that the traffic could return to      . Brown changed the position of the rearview (后视) mirror     _ and drove it around to    __ his boss was questioning the two men.

   Brown stood and watched. One of the men was tall and thin, and     _ was five inches shorter, about Brown’s      .

Agent Fordney asked the two men who had done the shooting. They    __ to tell him. Then Brown smiled and said, “I know who the shooter was.” His boss was surprised. How could Brown know that without getting any answer from the two men?

When Brown got into the car, he had to adjust the rearview mirror. That meant the previous driver had been of a       height. Since the shorter man was close to Brown’s height, he knew the taller man must have been the     _. Therefore, the shorter man had done the      .

1.A. driver-side          B. passenger-side      C. right-hand side      D. left-hand side

2.A. hand           B. camera C. handgun                 D. knife

3.A. frozen        B. calm               C. quiet              D. still

4.A. put              B. rushed           C. jumped          D. threw

5.A. bullets      B. shots              C. guns               D. shoots

6.A. on             B. at           C. over               D. in

7.A. sped  B. rolled             C. moved           D. went

8.A. damaged    B. destroyed     C. stuck              D. injured

9.A. came          B. hurried C. walked         D. crawled

10.A. suddenly B. right               C. quickly         D. immediately

11.A. clear                  B. ride                C. carry              D. push

12.A. common  B. ordinary        C. usual              D. normal

13.A. up             B. down              C. in           D. out

14.A. where      B. there              C. which                    D. what

15.A. another   B. other              C. the other                D. one

16.A. size           B. length            C. age                 D. height

17.A. decided   B. refused         C. had               D. pretended

18.A. same        B. large               C. different        D. small

19.A. murderer         B. shooter          C. driver             D. killer

20.A. killing       B. shooting        C. driving           D. murdering

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.D

5.B

6.D

7.A

8.C

9.B

10.B

11.A

12.D

13.B

14.A

15.C

16.D

17.B

18.C

19.C

20.B

【解析】

试题分析：文章描述了激烈的警匪大战，警察抓住匪徒后，进行询问，但是他们拒绝回答，这时刚当警察的Brown用自己的智慧推理出真正开枪的人。

1.考查词义辨析：A. driver-side司机一边，B. passenger-side         乘客一边，C. right-hand side右手边，D. left-hand side左手边，根据常识和最后一段的描述应该是乘客这边的人开枪，选B

2.考查名词辨析：A. hand手，B. camera照相机，C. handgun手枪，D. knife小刀，从下文的but two   15 were fired and Pauly was hit   16   the shoulder.可知是一只半自动手枪伸了出来。选C

3.考查形容词：A. frozen冷冻的，结冰的，逮住了，B. calm冷静的，C. quiet安静的，D. still静止的，不动的，从下句seeing death walking toward him. 可知Pauly Gillespie是吓得呆住了，选A

4.考查动词辨析：A. put放置，B. rushed冲，C. jumped跳，D. threw扔，throw oneself on topof…使身体迅速地伏在物体上，因为是保镖，所以要保护Pauly Gillespie，选 D

5.考查名词辨析： A. bullets子弹，B. shots射击，C. guns枪，D. shoots嫩芽，发射，摄影，狩猎，shots和fire搭配，是开了两枪，选B

6.考查介词辨析：A. on在…上面，B. at在,..地方，C. over越过，D. in在…里面，Pauly肩膀中弹，这里使用了hit sb +介词on/in+the+身体部位，因为子弹射到肩膀里面了，所以用in，选D

7.考查动词辨析：A. sped加速，B. rolled滚，C. moved移动，D. went去，这辆车加速穿过两个车道，选A

8.考查动词辨析：A. damaged破坏，B. destroyed毁坏，C. stuck刺，卡，D. injured受伤，然后向左转向一个小路，被一个大卡车卡住了，选C

9.考查动词辨析：A. came来，B. hurried匆忙，C. walked走，D. crawled爬，车辆里面的两个人匆忙出来，跑走，选B

10.考查副词辨析：A. suddenly突然，B. right正是，C. quickly快，D. immediately立刻，正好撞到4个警察的怀里，选B

11.考查形容词辨析：A. clear清除，B. ride骑车，C. carry携带，运送，D. push推，从下文的so that the traffic could return to   22  .可知Brown被要求把汽车从路上清除，这样交通就可以恢复正常，选A

12.考查形容词辨析：A. common一般的，B. ordinary普通的，C. usual通常的，D. normal正常的，词组：return to normal恢复正常，选D

13.考查副词：A. up向上，B. down向下，C. in在…里面，D. out在…外面，从下文的句子：Since the shorter man was close to Brown’s height, he knew the taller man must have been the   29 _.可知是高个子的人开车的，所以是向下改变后视镜的位置，选B

14.考查宾语从句：A. where在哪里，B. there那里，C. which哪个，D. what什么，他把车开到老板询问这两个人的地方，选A

15.考查代词：A. another另一个，B. other泛指其他的，C. the other特指，另一个，D. one泛指，一个，因为是两个人，一个人是one，另外一个是特指：the other，选C

16.考查名词辨析：A. size         大小，尺寸，B. length长度，C. age年龄，D. height高度，从前面的was five inches shorter,可知另外一个人的高度和布朗相仿，选D

17.考查动词辨析：A. decided决定，B. refused拒绝，C. had有，D. pretended假装，从下文的Then Brown smiled and said, “I know who the shooter was.”可知这两个人拒绝回答，选B

18.考查形容词辨析：A. same同样的，B. large大的，C. different不同的，D. small小的，从上文When Brown got into the car, he had to adjust the rearview mirror.布朗调整后视镜的位置，说明司机的高度和他不同，选C

19.考查名词辨析：A. murderer杀人犯，B. shooter射手，C. driver司机，D. killer杀手，从后视镜的位置应该是高个子人是司机，选C

20.考查动词辨析：A. killing杀死，B. shooting设计，C. driving驾驶，D. murdering谋杀，那么是矮个子的人射击的，选B。

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