试题题干
The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expression for each blank only.
She ____1_____to me because she was like people I had never met ______2_____. Like women in English novels who ____3______the moors(whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful______4_____. Like the women who sat in front of roaring_____5______,drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the"heath"and read morocco-bound books and had two last names _____6_____ by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.
Homes and restaurants do what they can with this____7_______—which my mother-in-law would_____8_____ on the spot. I have long thought that the_____9_____ blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city ______10_______. For I am sure that if you ____11______them blindfolded, you couldn't tell the beans from the ______12______, the turnips from the squash.
Chavel was filled with a huge and ____13______ joy. It seemed to him that already he was____14_____ —twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The_____15_____ had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and _____16______ carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was_____17______: one couldn’t mock the condemned one by any___18______of relief.
Red Indians, while they were still______19_____ by white men, would smoke then pipes, not calmly as we do, but ______20______, inhaling so deeply that they sank into a ________. And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them ______21______ to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the____________that we (according to our temperament)derive from a horse _____22_____ or a General Election.
A.taboo B.faint C. shameful D. orgiastically E. saved F.race
G.up H.peas I. sign J. famed K. fireplaces L. indicated
M. stuff N. personally O. chances P. enjoyment Q distance R. vegetables
S.discard T.divided U. unaffected V. pureed W.walked X.appealed