2012同等學(xué)力申碩英語每日一練 5月18日

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　　The job was done, and it was time for a last cigarette. Eddie began tapping the pockets of his overalls, looking for the new packet of Marlboro be had bought that morning. It was not there.

　　It was as he swung around to look in his toolbox for the cigarettes that Eddie saw the lump. Right in the middle of the brand new bright red carpet, there was a lump. A lump the size of a packet of cigarettes.

　　“I’ve done it again!” said Eddie angrily. “I’ve left the cigarettes under the carpet!”

　　He had done this once before, and taking up and refitting the carpet had taken him two hours. Eddie was determined that he was not going to spend another two hours in this house. He decided to get rid of the lump another way. It would mean wasting a good packet of cigarettes, nearly full, but anything was better than taking up the whole carpet and fitting it again. He turned to his toolbox for a large hammer.

　　Eddie didn’t want to damage the carper itself, so he took a block of wood and placed it on top of the lump. Then he began to beat the block of wood as hard as he could .He kept beating, hoping Mrs. Vanbrugh wouldn’t hear the noise and come to see what he was doing. It would be difficult to explain why he was hammering the middle of her beautiful new carpet…The lump was beginning to flatten out.

　　After three or four minutes, the job was finally finished. Eddie picked up his tools, and began to walk out to his car. Mrs. Vanbrugh accompanied him. She seemed a little worried about something.

　　“Young man, while you were working today. you didn’t by any chance see any sign of Armand, did you ?Armand is my bird. I let him out of his cage, you see, this morning, and he’s disappeared. He likes to walk around the house, and he usually just comes back to his cage after an hour or so and gets right in. Only today he didn’t come back. He’s never done such a thing before, it’s most peculiar….”

　　“No, madam, I haven’t seen him anywhere,” said Eddie, as he reached to start the car.

　　And he saw his packet of Marlboro cigarettes on the panel, where he had left it at lunchtime….

　　And he remembered the lump in the carpet….

　　31 what did Eddie want to do when he had finished fitting the carpet?

　　A. To have a cigarette.

　　B. To hammer the carpet flat.

　　C. To put back his tools.

　　D. To start work in the dinning room.

　　32. Why didn’t Eddie take out the thing under the carpet?

　　A. it was impossible for him to take up the carpet once it was fitted.

　　B. he didn’t need the cigarettes because he had some more in the car.

　　C. it would take too long to take up the carpet and refit it.

　　D. he intended to come back and remove the lump the next day.

　　33. What did Eddie do with the hammer?

　　A. He drove nails into the lump.

　　B. He fixed his toolbox.

　　C. He refitted the carpet.

　　D. He flattened the lump.

　　34. Mrs. Vanbrugh worried that_______.

　　A. her pet was nowhere to be found

　　B. fitting the carpet would be expensive

　　C. Eddie would smoke in the house

　　D. Eddie hadn’t done a proper job

　　35. What was really under the carpet?

　　A. The packet of cigarettes.

　　B. Eddie’s hammer.

　　C.A lump of wood.

　　D. The missing pet.

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　　答案解析：

　　工作結(jié)束了，是時候抽最后一根煙了。埃迪摸了摸外套的口袋，搜尋那天早上新買的萬寶路，但是找不到。

　　正當他揮動雙手在工具箱中找煙的時候，他發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個腫塊。它就在全新的大紅色地毯的中間。大小尺寸跟一包煙差不多。

　　埃迪生氣地說：“我怎么又這樣?又將香煙放到地毯下面!”

　　他曾經(jīng)這樣做過一次，之后花了兩小時將房間的地毯拿起來然后又整理。他決定用另外一種方式來清理這個腫塊，那就意味著他將浪費一包好煙，煙基本上沒怎么抽，但這總比把地毯掀開然后整理要好些。他在工具箱找了一個大錘子。

　　埃迪不想毀壞這個地毯本身，因此他拿了一塊木頭，放在腫塊的上面，然后用盡全力敲打木頭。他不停地敲，同時希望Vanbrugh女士聽不見噪音以免其上來看個究竟。也許很難解釋為什么他正在敲打她的新地毯的中間部分……腫塊漸漸平了。

　　三四分鐘之后，這個任務(wù)終于完成。埃迪拾起工具，朝汽車走去。Vanbrugh女士與其相伴。她看上去在擔憂什么事情。

　　“年輕人，當你今天工作的時候，你是否看到了Armand的蹤跡? 它是一只鳥兒，你看，今早我放它出籠，就不見了。它喜歡繞著房子飛，通常飛一個多小時就會回來，正好飛進籠子里。只有今天它沒有回來。它從未這樣做過，太奇怪了……”

　　“不，女士，我沒有見過它，”埃迪說著，伸出手啟動汽車。

　　接著他發(fā)現(xiàn)他的萬寶路在儀表盤上，是在午餐時間放在那里的……

　　他又想起了地毯的腫塊……

　　31.【答案】 A

　　【題意】埃迪在整理完地毯后想做什么?

　　A. 想要支煙 B. 用錘子把地毯砸平

　　C. 把工具放回去 D. 在餐廳里開始工作

　　【考點】事實細節(jié)題

　　【解析】通過第二段和第三段的層層深入，可知作者是在找一包煙，并且煙是裹在地毯中間的。最后通過掀開地毯，作者才能夠吸到煙。

　　32.【答案】 C

　　【題意】為什么埃迪沒有把東西從地毯中拿出來?

　　A.對于他來說一旦地毯很合適再啟開不太可能。

　　B. 他不需要香煙因為他車里還有一些。

　　C. 把地毯掀起來再重新鋪合適花費的時間太長。

　　D. 他想回來第二天再重新挪走腫塊。

　　【考點】事實細節(jié)題

　　【解析】從第四段“He had done this once before, and taking up and refitting the carpet had taken him two hours. … It would mean wasting a good packet of cigarettes, nearly full, but anything was better than taking up the whole carpet and fitting it again.”可得出此答案。

　　33. 【答案】D

　　【題意】埃迪用錘子做什么?

　　A. 他把釘子釘進腫塊 B. 把他的工具箱固定了下來

　　C. 他重新把地毯鋪好 D. 她把腫塊弄平了

　　【考點】事實細節(jié)題

　　【解析】由第五段的首句和末句可以得出答案。

　　34.【答案】A

　　【題意】Vanbrugh太太擔心________。

　　A.找不到她的寵物了 B.鋪好地毯花費昂貴

　　C. 艾迪在屋子里吸煙 D.艾迪沒有很好地完成一份工作

　　【考點】事實細節(jié)題

　　【解析】由第七段“Only today he didn’t come back. He’s never done such a thing before, it’s most peculiar….”可得出答案。