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 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  14 she lived to be 83 years old. But   15 , her house was finished.
小題1:
A．poorB．richC．usefulD．brave
小題2:
A．cheapB．expensiveC．simpleD．old
小題3:
A．StillB．UsuallyC．Instead D．Even
小題4:
A．buildingB．buyingC．sellingD．setting
小題5:
A．doorB．windowC．kitchenD．house
小題6:
A．yearsB．monthsC．weeksD．days
小題7:
A．keepB．enjoyC．stopD．help
小題8:
A．drivers B．workersC．farmersD．visitors
小題9:
A．butB．untilC．sinceD．so
小題10:
A．floors B．kitchensC．windowsD．rooms
小題11:
A．bigger B．smallerC．strongerD．cleaner
小題12:
A．workingB．dyingC．livingD．growing
小題13:
A．a(chǎn)geB．familyC．planD．husband
小題14:
A．orB．becauseC．neitherD．nor
小題15:
A．hardly B．usefullyC．carefullyD．finally

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:D
小題6:A
小題7:C
小題8:B
小題9:D
小題10:C
小題11:A
小題12:B
小題13:C
小題14:B
小題15:D

試題分析：這篇短文描述了一個非常怕死的女人——薩拉溫徹斯特。她很富有，但是錢都用來建房子了，因?yàn)樗芘滤�。認(rèn)為只要房子完工了自己就會死去，因此她的房子建造了38年，直到她死去后房子才完工。
小題1:聯(lián)系下文she spent millions in  4 a house 可知她是一個富有的女人，故選B，富有的。
小題2:聯(lián)系上下文，可知此處指的是她不買昂貴的衣服，故選B，昂貴的。
小題3:副詞辨析。A. 仍舊；B. 通常；C. 反而，代替；D. 甚至。聯(lián)系前文，可知前后位轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，故選C，她反而花費(fèi)上億元建造一所房子。
小題4:spend用于sb spend. . . on sth或者sb spend. . . in doing sth（in可以省略），spend的主語必須是人，可以指花費(fèi)時間、也可以指花費(fèi)金錢；故選A。
小題5:聯(lián)系上文，可知此處指的是她的房子，故選D，房子。
小題6:聯(lián)系上文描述，可知這項(xiàng)工作持續(xù)了38年，故選A，年，歲。
小題7:結(jié)合語境可知她害怕停止建造這所房子，故選C，停止。
小題8:聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是許多工人到達(dá)那里為她工作。故選B，工人們。
小題9:聯(lián)系上下文，可知前后是因果關(guān)系，后面表示原因，故選D，因此工人們持續(xù)地建造他們。
小題10:聯(lián)系前文有200扇門，可知此處指的是1000個窗戶，故選C，窗戶。
小題11:聯(lián)系前文，可知她想要房子變得更大，故選A，更大的。
小題12:聯(lián)系下文，可知她很害怕死，故選B，死亡。
小題13:聯(lián)系上文描述，可知此處指的是她的計(jì)劃，故選C，計(jì)劃。
小題14:連詞辨析。A. 或者，否則；B. 因?yàn)�；C. 兩者都不；D. 也不。聯(lián)系上下文，可知前后只能是因果關(guān)系，故選B，因?yàn)樗畹?3歲。
小題15:聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是最終，她的房子完工了。故選D，終于，最后。
點(diǎn)評：這篇短文內(nèi)容比較簡單，理解不難。各小題與上下文聯(lián)系比較緊密，答題中一定要注意聯(lián)系上下文。答完后多讀幾遍，看看是否符合邏輯，適當(dāng)修改。個別小題可以當(dāng)作單獨(dú)的詞義辨析題來做，先區(qū)分詞義，結(jié)合語境選出最能使語句通順的答案。
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