Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very 1        woman. She didn't buy many jewels (珠寶) or 2        clothes. 3      ,she spent millions of dollars in 4       a house. She began to do it at the age of 45.        The strange thing about Sarah's 5       was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went on for 38 6       because Sarah was afraid to 7        building it. Sarah's house was near San Jose. Every day,a lot of 8       arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows,9       the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000 10       There were also three lifts,nine kitchens,and 47 fireplaces. Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting 11       ?It was because Sarah was afraid of 12       She thought she would die when the house was finished,so she didn't want her house to be finished. Sarah Winchester's 13       seemed to have worked (奏效) 14       she lived to be 83 years old. But 15      ,her house was finished.

(   ) 1. A. poor   B. rich   C. expensive   D. useful

(   ) 2. A. cheap   B. expensive   C. simple   D. old

(   ) 3. A. Still   B. Usually   C. Instead   D. Even

(   ) 4. A. building   B. buying   C. selling   D. setting

(   ) 5. A. door   B. window   C. kitchen   D. house

(   ) 6. A. years   B. months   C. weeks   D. days

(   ) 7. A. keep   B. enjoy   C. stop   D. help

(   ) 8. A. drivers   B. workers   C. farmers   D. visitors

(   ) 9. A. but   B. until   C. since   D. so

(   ) 10. A. floors   B. kitchens   C. windows   D. rooms

(   ) 11. A. bigger   B. smaller   C. stronger   D. cleaner

(   ) 12. A. working   B. dying   C. living   D. growing

(   ) 13. A. age   B. family   C. plan   D. husband

(   ) 14. A. or   B. because   C. neither   D. nor

(   ) 15. A. hardly   B. usefully   C. carefully   D. finally

1. B 根據(jù)下文可知，她很富有。

2. B expensive"昂貴的"，一般而言，有錢人都會(huì)買貴的衣服。

3. C instead"而不是，取而代之"。

4. A 下文主要講她建造一幢大房子。

5. D 房子的奇怪之處是好像永遠(yuǎn)都不能完工。

6. A 83年減去45年等于38年。

7. C 她害怕停止修建這座房子，擔(dān)心一停工她就會(huì)死去。

8. B workers是指修建房子的工人。

9. D so表示因果關(guān)系。

10. C 上文提到的rooms,doors,windows。

11. A getting bigger房子越修越大。

12. B be afraid of dying"害怕自己要死了"。

13. C 一切都在計(jì)劃之中。

14. B because表示原因。

15. D but表示轉(zhuǎn)折。

題目來源：中考英語組合訓(xùn)練完形填空+短文填詞 > 組合訓(xùn)練19

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