2014年PETS五级完形填空模拟练习2
阅读下面的短文,从短文后所给各项的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
"The headmaster wants you in his office." The ( 1) boy to whom a friend says one of these things gets to ( 2) about and suddenly everyone around ( 3) and shouts, "April Fool!" ( 4) this is April 1, or All fools’ Day. In Britain and in some other countries, it is ( 5) to play tricks on people on that day. Children are ( 6) to play harmless jokes on their friends until twelve o’clock at night. Usually they ( 7) to trick other children (child的复数形式) into ( 8) foolish things. It is not only children ( 9) like such jokes. Grown-ups also enjoy tricking others. Even newspapers and radios (10) try to fool the (11) with a clever April Fools’ story (故事,新闻报道).
Some time ago, for example, a very (12) BBC TV program did a ten-minute (13) about spaghetti (实心面条) trees in Italy (意大利). The reporter (记者) said that (14) the recent bad weather, trees weren’t (15) as much spaghetti as they (16) did. He said the (17) of spaghetti would (18). A lot of TV viewers who didn’t know what spaghetti is made of actually (19) the story. Some housewives hurried to buy (20) food that was going to become in short supply.
1.cleverpoor good excited
2.frighten consider fear worry
3.jumps speakslaughsquarrels
4.For AsSuch So
5.easy common comfortable moral (道德上的,道德,寓意)
6.forbidden let made permitted
7.imagine managetry order
8.havingdoing takingmaking
9.whatever however that those
10.in time at times all the time for a time
11.publicreaders listeners children
12.curious famouspopular serious
13.reportannouncement show news
14.about with tofor
15.collectingplanting producing gathering
16.normally possibly seldombefore
17.price quantity quality taste
18.come over go offcome down go up
19.realized believed accepted understood
20.a / the all
答案:
BDCAB DCBCB ADABC AADBC