Question

 As my train was delayed for two hours, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some newspapers to read on the journey, I made my way to the ___1___ office to collect my heavy suitcase I had ___2___ there three days before. There were only a few people ___3___, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt didn’t seem to be where I had left it. I ___4___ the contents, and railway tickets, money scraps of paper and photos fell out of it; but no matter how ___5___ I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.

When my turn came, I ___6___ the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me ___7___ as if to say that he had ___8___ this kind of story many times and asked me to ___9___ the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking ___10___ no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me ___11___ and told me to ___12___ of the chief contents of the case. If they were ___13___, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to ___14___ all the articles I had ___15___ packed into the case and wrote them down as they came to me.

After I had done this, I went to ___16___ among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there. For one dreadful moment, it ___17___ to me that if someone had ___18___ the receipt up he could have easily claimed(認領) the case already. This hadn’t happened ___19___, for after a time I found the case lying in a corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was ___20___ and told me I could take the case away.

1. A. posting   B. working     C. luggage      D. manager’s

2. A. left  B. forgotten    C. found  D. bought

3. A. standing B. crowding    C. talking D. waiting

4. A threw      B. put      C. looked D. emptied

5. A. often      B. much  C. hard    D. soon

6. A. said B. searched     C. spoke  D. explained

7. A. now and then B. up and down      C. here and there    D. back and forth

8. A. knew     B. realized       C. heard  D. seen

9. A. describe B. draw   C. take out      D. show

10. A. object   B. matter C. subject       D. wallet

11. A. a paper B. a note  C. a message  D. a form

12. A. sign names   B. make a list  C. write down D. draw a picture

13. A. everything    B. wrong C. correct       D. ready

14. A. draw    B. remember   C. read    D. remind

15. A. carelessly     B. suddenly     C. hurriedly    D. immediately

16. A. see       B. watch C. find    D. look

17. A. happened     B. occurred    C. appeared    D. seemed

18. A. picked  B. collected     C. taken  D. stolen

19. A. fortunately   B. unluckily    C. by chance  D. presently

20. A. disappointed B. surprised    C. satisfied     D. worried

Answer 1

CADDC   DBCAA   DBCBC   DBAAC

【解析】C luggage office 意為“行李寄存處”，作者去領取小提箱(suitcase)，可知他是去行李寄存處。

A leave 意為“留下、委托”。這里表示把行李寄存在行李寄存處。

D wait 意為“等候”。由后面的when my turn came(輪到我的時候)可知在行李寄存處已經有人排隊等候了。

D empty 意為“倒空”。這里表示把皮包里的東西全部倒出來，尋找寄存物品的收據(receipt)。

C hard意為“努力地”。這里表示無論怎樣努力尋找，可是哪兒也找不到。

D explain意為“解釋”。由于收據沒有找到，只好向管理員解釋情況。

B look at sb up and down 意為“上下打量著某人”。

C hear 意為“聽說”。表示聽說過這種故事。這里指管理員以前經常遇到類似的情況。

A describe意為“描述”。由于沒有收據，管理員就要作者描述他的手提箱的模樣。

A object意為“物體”。這里指手提箱。

D a form意為“一份表格”。

B make a list意為“列表”。因為沒有收據，管理員就要作者把他的箱子里的東西列一份清單，以便證實該手提箱是作者本人的。

C correct意為“正確的”。只有當清單上的東西的名稱與手提箱內的物品相吻合時，才能取走手提箱。

B remember意為“回憶起”。要寫清單，就必須回憶起手提箱里所放的物品(articles)。

C hurriedly 意為“匆忙地”。I had hurriedly packed into the case是定語從句，修飾articles，表示出發時匆忙。因此，現在要寫清單，就需要盡力回憶。故選hurriedly與上下文相符。

D look 意為“看”，強調看的動作。

B occur 意為“被想到”。It occurs to sb that… 意為：某人想到…。

A pick up 意為“拾起、撿起”。這里指作者突然想到要是收據被別人撿到，他就可能會把手提箱領走。

A unfortunately 意為“幸虧”。句意為：幸虧手提箱沒有被人領走。

C satisfied 意為“滿意的、信服的”。這里指經過物品與清單的核對，管理員確信了手提箱是作者的，因此讓作者領走了。