The 1____ picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his 2____, who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously 3_____ of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 4 _____ on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling(飒飒地响).
They 5 _____ sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6 ____ came, right there in the living room. Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7 ____ her shoulder at once, startled(吓一跳), 8_____. It was 9 _____.Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10_____ floor and blurted out（脱口而出）, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!”
The father started to say something. Then he muttered（嘀咕）, “ Sorry, I 11_____ it and it fell.”
“It doesn’t matter,” the host said.
Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your 12 ____ in the windowpane(玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly13____. Why did you say…?”
The father 14____, “What then would you 15____ as the cause of its fall?”
“It fell by itself. The floor is uneven(不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr Li put it there.”
“It won’t 16_____, girl. It sounds more 17_____ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you 18_____them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.”
The daughter was 19_____ in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you 20____ it only this way?”
“Only this way,” the father said.
| 小题1: | | A．owner | B．host | C．guest | D．master |
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| 小题2: | | A．friends | B．neighbors | C．children | D．guests |
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| 小题3: | | A．knowing | B．remembering | C．hearing | D．thinking |
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| 小题5: | | A．enjoyed | B．remained | C．imagined | D．hated |
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| 小题6: | | A．stranger | B．host | C．crash | D．noise |
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| 小题7: | | A．around | B．at | C．behind | D．over |
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| 小题8: | | A．staring | B．watching | C．shouting | D．crying |
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| 小题9: | | A．helpless | B．exciting | C．strange | D．terrible |
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| 小题10: | | A．broken | B．streaming | C．dirty | D．flooded |
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| 小题11: | | A．touched | B．used | C．hit | D．moved |
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| 小题12: | | A．faced | B．shadow | C．reflection | D．action |
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| 小题13: | | A．calm | B．still | C．silent | D．straight |
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| 小题14: | | A．shouted | B．murmured | C．laughed | D．repeated |
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| 小题15: | | A．tell | B．make | C．accept | D．give |
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| 小题17: | | A．comfortable | B．friendly | C．acceptable | D．agreeable |
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| 小题18: | | A．defend | B．support | C．discuss | D．argue |
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| 小题19: | | A．kept | B．shut | C．worried | D．lost |
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| 小题20: | | A．do | B．explain | C．make | D．manage |
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