Question

  Soon after Dave left university,one of his uncles,who was 1        and had no children of his own,died and 2        Dave a lot of money,so he decided to 3        his own company.

He found a nice 4       ,5       some new furniture (家具) and 6       . He had only been there for a few hours 7        he heard someone come towards the door of his office. "It's my first 8       ," he thought. He quickly 9        the telephone,and 10       to be busy 11        an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

The man 12        at the door while seeing this was 13       ,came in and waited politely for Dave to finish his 14       ,then he said to Dave, "I'm from the telephone company,and I was sent here to 15        your telephone."

(   ) 1. A. ill   B. rich   C. honest   D. luck

(   ) 2. A. gave   B. handed   C. left   D. promised

(   ) 3. A. set up   B. take up   C. put up   D. make up

(   ) 4. A. office   B. cinema   C. theater   D. school

(   ) 5. A. bought   B. carried   C. managed   D. lent

(   ) 6. A. set in   B. moved in   C. moved out   D. went out

(   ) 7. A. as   B. when   C. while   D. then

(   ) 8. A. teacher   B. boss

   C. customer (顧客)   D. job

(   ) 9. A. made up   B. took up   C. brought up   D. picked up

(   ) 10. A. pretended   B. warned   C. kept   D. looked

(   ) 11. A. writing   B. answering   C. calling   D. saying

(   ) 12. A. looked   B. knocked   C. hit   D. waited

(   ) 13. A. going on   B. moving on   C. speaking on   D. keeping on

(   ) 14. A. conversation   B. gesture (手勢(shì)) C smoking   D. fixing

(   ) 15. A. repairing   B. connecting   C. making   D. looking after

Answer 1

本文是一篇笑話(huà)，故事生動(dòng)有趣，但讀后又不禁感慨萬(wàn)分——自作聰明，終會(huì)留下笑柄。

1. B 根據(jù)下文left him a lot of money的提示，我們可推斷他叔叔很富有，故選   B.

2. C leave sb. sth.是"留給某人某物"的意思，故選   C.

3. A set up建立，take up舉起，put up張貝占，make up打扮;根據(jù)句意和下文，可知選A.

4. A由下文可知選A.

5. A意為"買(mǎi)了些新家具，然后就搬進(jìn)去了"。

6. B move in是"搬進(jìn)"的意思。

7. B意為"就在這時(shí)"。

8. C Dave開(kāi)公司是為了接待顧客，因此選C。

9. D take up占據(jù)，bring up培養(yǎng)，make up編造, pick up隨意拿起。

10. A假裝忙于接一個(gè)重要的電話(huà)。

11. B answer a call回電話(huà)。

12. B knock at. door敲門(mén)。

13. A go on繼續(xù)，keep on堅(jiān)持，故選A.

14. A他拿起電話(huà)顯然是講話(huà)，故選A.

15. A全文的喜劇效果全在于此，很顯然電話(huà)壞了，需要修理。

Dave只是在假裝講話(huà)。