Question

It was almost Christmas. We wrote to my father, asking him to  31  an artificial tree for us and  32  it to us in several smaller boxes. Two days before Christmas we were in a  33 . All of the boxes that my father had sent us arrived except for the one with the tree  34 . We decided to wait one more day.

Meanwhile, in Bremerhaven, a young mail clerk  35  a box under a counter. He  36  that someone would be without a tree for Christmas. Although he was closing up and there was no  37  on Christmas, he processed the mail and got it to Mannheim.

After putting the  38  on the proper shelf, he headed to the snack bar. The place was  39  and he ended up sharing a table. Two men were speaking and the clerk discovered that one of his  40  at the table was working in Mannheim. He said to the man, “You could  41  play Santa for someone in Mannheim tonight if you’d like to.” The man  42  to deliver it and the two walked to the mail room to  43  the package.

At home in Mannheim, we were busily  44  to devise some way to put our tree together, but couldn’t  45  a workable solution. We were ready to give up  46  the door bell rang. There stood a stranger holding a long  47  carton, our tree trunk. We invited him in,  48  it was Christmas Eve and he was  49  to get home to his own family.

The next day as we watched our little boy’s eyes light up at the  50  of our beautiful tree, I whispered a little prayer: “Bless the stranger who brightened up our Christmas with his kindness.”

 

31.A.sell	B. purchase	C. deliver	D. bring
32.A.send	B. pass	C. carry	D. take
33.A.surprise	B. hunger	C. pleasure	D. panic
34.A.leaf	B. trunk	C. stand	D. branch
35.A.watched	B. caught	C. spotted	D. broke
36.A.directed	B. whispered	C. realized	D. confirmed
37.A.delivery	B. customer	C. money	D. letter
38.A.present	B. tree	C. mail	D. package
39.A.crowded	B. small	C. noisy	D. normal
40.A.friends	B. colleagues	C. relatives	D. companions
41.A.really	B. confidently	C. kindly	D. patiently
42.A.overcame	B. agreed	C. astonished	D. struggled
43.A.fetch	B. transform	C. post	D. consult
44.A.solving	B. explaining	C. trying	D. worrying
45.A.come across	B. come back to	C. come upon	D. come up with
46.A.while	B. when	C. as	D. since
47.A.slim	B. beautiful	C. thick	D. heavy
48.A.but	B. so	C. because	D. or
49.A.in surprise	B. in the way	C. in a hurry	D. in time
50.A.sight	B. back	C. corner	D. scene

Answer 1

31.B 由后面所說(shuō)的寄過(guò)來(lái)可知父親只有先買然后才能寄，其他選項(xiàng)都不對(duì)，所以選B。

32.A 后文寫道“All of the boxes that my father had sent us arrived except for…”，由此可知是用小箱子寄過(guò)來(lái)，故選A。

33.D 根據(jù)第一段第四句可知，我們?cè)谑フQ節(jié)前兩天還沒(méi)有收到圣誕樹的某部分，而且圣誕樹是圣誕節(jié)不可缺少的東西，當(dāng)然很驚慌。

34.B 倒數(shù)第二段第三句“There stood a stranger holding a long  52  carton, our tree trunk.”照應(yīng)此處，所以應(yīng)該是還未收到盛樹干的箱子。

35.C spot指“發(fā)現(xiàn)很難發(fā)現(xiàn)的東西或突然看見某物”，符合語(yǔ)境，因?yàn)槟莻�(gè)箱子在柜臺(tái)下面本來(lái)就很難發(fā)現(xiàn)。

36.C 這句話中that引導(dǎo)的賓語(yǔ)從句是clerk看到a box后所意識(shí)到的，根據(jù)上下句的邏輯關(guān)系可知選C。

37.A 根據(jù)句意判斷這一空所填的詞與mail有關(guān)，由上文可知圣誕樹是郵寄的，所以這里指的是“圣誕節(jié)期間不送包裹”。

38.D package指的是“（裝樹干的）包裹”符合文章的意思。另外，該句最后一個(gè)單詞也是package，由此提示可知選D。

39.A 根據(jù)后面的“he ended up sharing a table”可判斷，這個(gè)酒吧當(dāng)時(shí)人很多，擁擠不堪（crowded）。酒吧小或者喧鬧了都可能不會(huì)造成sharing a table，因此B、C不合適。Normal指“正常的”，不符合語(yǔ)境。

40.D 郵遞員與這兩個(gè)同來(lái)酒吧的客人素相識(shí)，只能說(shuō)他們是共用一張餐桌的伙伴（companions）。

41.A 在西方的圣誕節(jié)，圣誕老人會(huì)送給人們禮物，郵遞員這一傳統(tǒng)，把為客戶運(yùn)送郵件和圣誕老人送禮物聯(lián)系起來(lái)，鼓勵(lì)他們真正地做一回圣誕老人，所以只有really合理。

42.B 根據(jù)“and the two walked to the mail room to 48  the package”可知那個(gè)人同意了運(yùn)送樹干，故選B。

43.A 根據(jù)前面的句子可知，此人和郵遞員一起去郵局的郵件寄存間去取包裹，故用fetch。

44.C try to do sth.表示“盡力做某事”，這句話的意思是“在Mannheim的家里，我們忙著盡力想辦法把樹攢一起。”第一段的panic可與此處照應(yīng)，因?yàn)轶@慌，所以現(xiàn)在盡力想辦法。

45.D come across/ come upon+sb. /sth.“偶然遇到”；come back to“回到（主題、想法）上來(lái)”；come up with“想出（主意、辦法），提出（方案等）”。此空后面有solution，只有come up with與其搭配合適。

46.B when在這里用作連詞，意思是“正在這（那）時(shí)”，when前面的句子的時(shí)態(tài)一般為進(jìn)行時(shí)態(tài)或完成時(shí)態(tài)。其余三項(xiàng)無(wú)此用法。

47.A 由上文可知，這個(gè)箱子正是作者等待的盛樹干的硬紙盒，樹干很長(zhǎng)，所以可推知箱子也很長(zhǎng)很苗條。Slim指“苗條的，修長(zhǎng)的”。Heavy指“重的”，假樹干不會(huì)很重，可以排除。

48.A 邀請(qǐng)與圣誕前夜陌生人要回家之間是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，表示雖然邀請(qǐng)了，但是他不能答應(yīng)請(qǐng)求。

49.C 當(dāng)時(shí)已經(jīng)是圣誕節(jié)期間，人人都在準(zhǔn)備過(guò)節(jié)，所以陌生人把包裹交給我們后匆匆趕回了家。In a hurry“匆匆忙忙地”；in the way“當(dāng)?shù)�，礙事”；in surprise“吃驚地”；in time“及時(shí)”。

50.A 根據(jù)句意，小男孩的眼睛亮起來(lái)了，是因?yàn)樗�看到了某物，at the sight of sth.表示“看到某物”，故選A。