Question

One day, Raul was miles away from the small ranch（牧場） house in a large valley.   36

seemed to be all right, yet he felt strange and somewhat uneasy. The wind had picked up, and angry, dark clouds   37  across the sky. He could smell the rain coming. And it did.  38  ,the lightning flashed through the clouds, nearly   39    Raul. The thunder（雷聲） was so loud that he buried his  40   in his hands and rubbed his eyes. Then he heard it. Hoof beats（蹄聲）.He   41  .There before him stood a tall, white   42  . An old man stared down at him from its back.

      “Wh-wh-who are y-y-you?” asked Raul. “My name is Gray Cloud,” the old man answered   43  .“Come with me.”

      Raul followed on his horse. A   44   feeling came over him. All    45    them the rain was pouring down,  46    not a drop fell on them. They seemed to be  47   back toward Raul’s home. Raul lost track of time. Then all at once he found  48  at the ranch gate. The old man turned his horse,  49  his hand, and smiled. Lightning flashed again. The old man and his horse were  50 .

Raul’s father ran out across the yard  to   51  him. “we have been  52  sick about you. Are you okay? Hurry. Let’s get in out of the  53  .”

   “Wait,” said Raul. “Have you ever heard of an old man called Gray Cloud?”

   “Can’t say I … wait. I  54  my great-grandfather used to tell storied about a man called Gray Cloud. He died a long time ago. They say he was  55  by lightning during a terrible thunderstorm. Why do you ask?”

36. A. Something	B. Everything	C. Anything	D. Nothing
37.A.dropped	B. fell	C. rolled	D. covered
38.A.Suddenly	B. Strongly	C. Quickly	D. Hardly
39.A.beating	B. blinding	C. burning	D. touching
40.A.nose	B. hair	C. neck	D. head
41.A.looked up	B. woke up	C. lay down	D. sat down
42.A.tiger	B. horse	C. lion	D. elephant
43.A.lazily	B. angrily	C. coldly	D. slowly
44.A.natural	B. common	C. strange	D. bad
45.A.around	B. beside	C. through	D. above
46.A.yet	B. for	C. so	D. or
47.A.walking	B. leading	C. heading	D. returning
48.A.them	B. themselves	C. him	D. himself
49.A.shook	B. waved	C. held	D. took
50.A.gone	B. left	C. followed	D. lost
51.A.see	B. meet	C. beat	D. ask
52.A.waited	B. thought	C. worried	D. excited
53.A.yard	B. wind	C. grass	D. rain
54.A.believe	B. consider	C. doubt	D. forget
55.A.defeated	B. caught	C. damaged	D. struck

Answer 1

解析：

36．B．根據下文yet he felt strange and somewhat uneasy可以看出，應該是“一切正常”。Anything主要用于否定句和條件句。

37。C．注意句子是dark clouds, 習慣上應該是“烏云滾滾”，以及后面的across the sky.

38．A．根據含義，閃電應該是突然發生的。

39．B．根據句意“閃電差點是他失明”。

40．D．根據上下文以及生活常識。Bury one’s head in his hands 意思是“手護著頭”。

41．A．根據上文He buried his head in his hands以及下文There before him stood a tall, white…來看，他必須“抬起頭”才可以“看見”的。

42．B．根據下文Raul followed on his horse可以看出答案。

43．D. 根據下文含義，老人是來幫助他的，而A 是貶義，B，C不符合下文老人的意圖。

44．C．根據下文“周圍瓢潑大雨，而他身上一滴雨也沒有”，所以這種感覺應該是“奇怪”。

45．A．此題有一點巧妙。也是生活的一個常識問題，人在雨中，應該是“四周”都是雨。

46．A．注意上下文是轉折關系，yet然而。

47．C．head back(towards)朝回走。選項A，事實上他們自己并沒有“走路”。Return 一般為return to /from.

48.D.根據下文，應該是“他”到家了。如選C，就會指代不明，造成誤解。

49．B．wave one’s hand 揮手（告別/致意）；hold hands 手拉手。

50．A．gone adj,常作表語。表示“不見，消失”，主要指“看不見了”；lost 表示“丟失”，一般是在指再也找不到了；另外missing意思是“迷路，丟失（可以找回來的），不見了”；left 留下，剩下；follow 跟隨，在…后發生。

51．B．meet “接，迎接，會面”。其他含義不相符。

52．C．大雨天，孩子一直沒有回家，父母肯定是“著急，擔心”，而且后面有介詞about.

53. D. 注意get in 和out of，顯然是“離開雨”進入“屋子”。一般說來下雨天我們是“躲雨”，而且文章上下文主要強調的是“瓢潑大雨”。

54．A．根據文章含義可以得出正確答案。

55．D．根據上下文考查動詞詞義辨別。