Question

Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t ___1___ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ___2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___3___ such as strange cars, loud noises, ___4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim ___5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indians, USA. The neighborhood watch group ___6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s ___7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ___8___. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ___9___ their homes, streets, and families safe.

Tina Stedman, president of ___10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not ___11___ them. Well, it’s never happened to me.” She said, “But I don’t think anyone has the ___12___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___13___ sitting in their own homes.”

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___14___ out for one another. “We ___15___ each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a ___16___ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, then we call the ___17___. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ___18___, or someone destroying property (財產(chǎn)), we report to the police.”

Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ___19___ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do ___20___.”

1. A. yet  B. still     C. just     D. rather

2. A. carefully       B. clearly       C. nervously   D. coldly

3. A familiar   B. unusual      C. expensive   D. interesting

4. A. curtained       B. open   C. old     D. broken

5. A. attends   B. belongs      C. goes    D. turns

6. A. meets     B. quarrels      C. sings   D. searches

7. A. where    B. why    C. when  D. how

8. A. politics   B. wealth C. health D. safety

9. A. keep      B. hold    C. let      D. protect

10. A. its B. his      C. their   D. your

11. A. round   B. on      C. about  D. to

12. A. right    B. chance       C. courage      D. mind

13. A. unlucky       B. unsafe C. disappointed     D. discouraged

14. A. set       B. let      C. hold    D. look

15. A. care     B. enter   C. watch  D. manage

16. A. group   B. set      C. number      D. crowd

17. A. judges  B. police C. firemen      D. doctors

18. A. work    B. burden       C. service       D. trouble

19. A. produce       B. find    C. get      D. help

20. A. anything      B. everything  C. harm   D. wrong

Answer 1

1---20           CABDB   ACDAC   DABDC   ABDDB  

解析:

本文主要介紹某社區(qū)一些居民自發(fā)組成治安聯(lián)防隊協(xié)助警察維護社區(qū)的安全的一些情況。

1. C。根據(jù)下文內(nèi)容：當 Tim Becker 開車去買東西時，他還要到居民區(qū)巡視——這說明他不只是(just)開著車從家到商店直去直回。

2. A。通讀全文可知，Tim 對居民區(qū)的保衛(wèi)工作很負責任，故此處填 carefully 為佳。

3. B。陌生人的車輛、大的噪音、打破的窗戶或者人們聚集在街角等均屬 unusual 的情況。

4. D。按常理，curtained windows, open windows, old windows 都不算 unusual，只有 broken windows 才算 unusual。

5. B。根據(jù)上下文可知，Tim 是 Stoneville, Indians, USA 的治安聯(lián)保隊隊員，故填 belong。belong to 為固定短語，其意為“屬于”。

6. 根據(jù)后面的 ...Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss… 可推知此處填 meet 最恰當。

7. C。此句的主語 that 即指前一句的 the third Wednesday of every month，故此題填 when，它相當于 the time when。如下面兩例中的when 就屬此用法：The morning is when I’m busiest. 早晨是我最忙的時候。/ April is when the lilacs bloom. 四月是丁香開花的季節(jié)。

8. D。根據(jù)上下文可知，治安聯(lián)保隊的目的是保衛(wèi)社區(qū)的安全，故此處應填 safety。

9. A。keep sth safe 意為“使某物處于安全的狀態(tài)”，即通常說的“保衛(wèi)某物的安全”。注意不要選 protect，因為它通常不用于“動詞+賓語+賓語補足語”的結(jié)構(gòu)。

10. C。根據(jù)上下文的語境可推知。

11. D。but not to them 為 but doesn’t happen to them 之省略。此處句意為：人們好像覺得犯罪(案件)只會發(fā)生在別人身上而不會發(fā)生在自己身上。

12. A。right 意為“權(quán)力”，句意為：我認為任何人都沒有權(quán)力偷別人的東西。

13. B。由于本文講的是關(guān)于社區(qū)安全的問題，所以選 B 較恰當。

14. D。比較四個選項，只有 look 與其后的 out for 搭配成 look out for(留心，注意)在此最合語境。

15. C。比較四個選項只有 watch 在此最恰當。另外，后面一句 We keep watch on… 也有相應的暗示。

16. 后面的 four or five of us 決定了答案應是 a group of(一小組，一小隊)，而不是 a set of(一套)、a number of(若干個)或 a crowd of(一大群)。

17. B。根據(jù)其后的 For example, if ..., we report to the police 可推知此處應填 police。這里的 For example 是把前面一句的內(nèi)容具體化。

18. D。后面說 we report to the police，這說明出現(xiàn)了一些違法或犯罪現(xiàn)象，如someone destroying poverty 等，四個選項中能與此并列的應是 look for trouble，即選 D。

19. D。比較四個選項，help 用于此空意思最恰當，即社區(qū)治安聯(lián)保隊對減少犯罪有很大幫助。

20. B。Jim 說“警察都是些好人，但是他們也不可能做好一切”，正因為如此，社區(qū)治安聯(lián)保隊的存在就很有必要了。