Question

Not many years ago， a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived a__1___ in a village in the south of England. He had m___2___a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five， he gave ￡ 12，000 to the village s____3___ to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground。
As a result of his kindness， many people came to visit him. A__4_____them was a newspaperman. During their talk， Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a h___5___. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of h__6___.  He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射） in my neck e___7__ evening.”he told the newspaperman， thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson m__8___. In his newspaper he r____9___that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain， asking him for the s__10___ of his daily injection.

Answer 1

【小題1】alone
【小題2】made
【小題3】school
【小題4】among
【小題5】hundred
【小題6】humour
【小題7】each/every
【小題8】meant
【小題9】reported
【小題10】secret

解析【小題1】考查副詞：一個有錢的奇怪的老人一個人生活：alone
【小題2】考查詞組：make a lot of money掙了很多錢：用過去式made
【小題3】從后面的buy land and equipment for a children’s playground。可知是給學校捐款：school
【小題4】考查介詞：其中有個是記者：among
【小題5】考查數詞：hundred一百，他希望從75歲活到100歲。
【小題6】考查詞組：a sense of humour幽默感
【小題7】考查代詞：每天晚上我都會在脖子上打針：each/every
【小題8】考查動詞：記者沒有理解Johnson的意思：meant
【小題9】考查動詞：記者報告：用reported
【小題10】考查名詞：詢問他長壽的秘密：secret