Question

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. ___36___, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I ___37___ to see--or look at--on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter ___38___ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 am. On ___39___days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Sometimes ___40___out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. ___41___, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I ___42___ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how ___43___ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I ___44___ her.

“Did she have an accident? Something ___45___?” I thought to myself about her ___46___. Now that she was gone, I felt I had ___47___ her. I began to realize that part of our ___48___ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar ___49___: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who ___50___walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are ___51___markers in our lives. They add weight to our ___52___ of place and belonging.

Think about it. ___53___, while walking to work, we mark where we are by ___54___ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though ___55___ person?

36. A. Make    B. Take   C. Give   D. Have

37. A. happened     B. wanted       C. used    D. tried

38. A. what     B. how    C. which D. when

39. A. sunny   B. rainy   C. cloudy       D. snowy

40. A. took     B. brought      C. carried       D. turned

41. A. Clearly B. Particularly       C. Luckily      D. Especially

42. A. believed       B. expressed   C. remembered      D. wondered

43. A. long     B. often   C. soon   D. much

44. A. respected     B. missed       C. praised       D. admired

45. A. better   B. worse  C. more   D. less

46. A. disappearance      B. appearance C. misfortune  D. fortune

47. A. forgotten     B. lost     C. known       D. hurt

48. A. happy   B. enjoyable   C. frequent     D. daily

49. A. friends  B. strangers    C. tourists       D. guests

50. A. regularly      B. actually      C. hardly D. probably

51. A. common      B. pleasant      C. important   D. faithful

52. A. choice  B. knowledge  C. decision     D. sense

53. A. Because       B. If       C. Although    D. However

54. A. keeping       B. changing    C. passing       D. mentioning

55. A. unnamed      B. unforgettable     C. unbelievable      D. unreal

Answer 1

36---55      BCADB   ACDBB   ACDBA   CDBAA          

解析:

36. B。take something/somebody for example是一個固定短語，意思是“以某物或某人作為例子”。在本句中的somebody(the neatly-dressed woman)之后的定語太長了，為了避免頭重腳輕，因此把它放在for example之后。

37. C。從to see or to look at on my way to work each morning作者以前經(jīng)常見到她的。

38. A。what was the weather like是常用句型。

39. D。由下一句說到她穿著厚重的衣服、戴著羊毛手套，再根據(jù)選項可推知作者這里談的是寒冷的下雪天。

40. B。bring something out的意思是“把……拿出來”，引申為“（夏季）她穿出來的衣物……”；take out著重于“隨身攜帶出去”；carry out的意思的“執(zhí)行；攜帶出去”；turn out表示“（出乎意料地）結果是……”。

41. A。根據(jù)下文作者做出的判斷可知。

42. C。第一段提到：我們常見的人或物突然消失后才會意識到他的存在，作者也是在見不到那位女士后，才記起她的衣著。

43. D。表示想見到某人的程度時用how much來修飾。

44. B。作者想見那位女士，換句話說就是思念她。

45. B。由上句“她出事故了嗎”可以推出作者在往壞處想，所以選worse(更壞的，更糟糕的)。

46. A。下句的既然她不見了（Now that she was gone）提示這里作者在想她消失了這件事。

47. C。從整篇文章對那位女士的描述看，作者并沒有和她交談或者認識她，只是在她消失后，作者對她的外表、衣著做進一步的回憶，以至于好像認識她似的，這只是作者的感覺。

48. D。由下文提到的日常生活中常見到的例子可知這里填daily ，daily life的意思是“日常生活”，起提示下文的作用。

49. B。牛奶工、街上溜狗的女人等不可能是你的朋友、旅行者或客人，但你會常見到他們但不一定認識，所以說他們是“熟悉的陌生人”。

50. A。從該句的時間狀語從句知這些女性每天早晨都溜狗，很有規(guī)律，所以選regularly“有規(guī)律地”。

51. C。由接下來的話知這些人能夠加深我們對一個地方的印象，可見他們在我們的生活中也是非常重要的。

52. D。sense of的意思是“對……的感知”。

53. B。從整個最后一段的意思看，這里是對某種情況做出的假設。

54. A。這句話的意思是我們一直依靠某個特定的建筑來確定自己所處的位置，keep 在這里是保持某種狀態(tài)的意思。

55. A。這就是作者在上文提到的熟悉的陌生人，即只認得面相卻叫不出名字。