题目

One winter morning I bought a copy of the New York World and turned its pages until I got the “Help Wanted Unskilled” section.A small advertisement held my  1 .It read, “Easy job.Good wages.No experience   2  .” It sounded like the job I was   3  .Easy job.Good wages.Those four words  4   now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the  5  .Easy job.Good wages.Easy job.Good wages.Easy ... When I got to the place I saw a series of large  6  half filled with water, out of which I noticed   7  the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes. 8  these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches.All had their  9  in the water of the basin, the left hand holding a  10  and the thumb nail of the right hand scratching(刮;擦) the labels on   11  . I sat down on a  12   beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle.As the minutes went by I noticed that the  13   of the water started to  14   from my hand to my body.But  15   still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was  16  by the minute into a full­ blown tomato­ colored finger.A numb(麻木的)pain began to be felt  17   from my right thumb.Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body. After three hours of this I told the manager I’d  18  .He figured I had  19  69 cents at 23 cents an hour.With the money, I left the working place.“Easy job.Good wages.” came to my brain again.Looking at my hands, I  20    myself, “Can easy job get good wages?” 1.A.eyes                  B.attention            C.decision              D.breath 2.A.necessary             B.relevant           C.practical         D.primitive 3.A.running after         B.looking for        C.heading for          D.looking after 4.A.circled              B.moved                                           C.flashed           D.attacked 5.A.letter               B.sign             C.advertisement      D.post 6.A.baskets             B.bowls           C.pots                 D.basins 7.A.hiding               B.sticking           C.rising                D.breaking 8.A.In                 B.Above            C.Under               D.Around 9.A.arms               B.hands            C.legs              D.feet 10.A.knife             B.snail             C.bottle              D.brush 11.A.that             B.those          C.them              D.it 12.A.chair           B.bench           C.bottle              D.sofa 13.A.smell             B.coldness         C.color                D.steam 14.A.spread          B.travel                                            C.recycle           D.accelerate 15.A.worse          B.better            C.more             D.rather 16.A.going            B.finding           C.growing              D.becoming 17.A.now and then     B.here and there     C.one by one          D.little by little 18.A.adapt           B.equip             C.bargain            D.quit 19.A.taken           B.offered             C.earned              D.created 20.A.thought           B.asked            C.found              D.hated 答案: 1-5 BABCC    6-10 DBDBC   11-15 DBBAA    16-20 CDDCB
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