Question

完形填空

先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C三个选项中选择最佳答案。

Cars are very popular in America. When the kids are fourteen years old. They dream of having their own ______. Many students work after school to _____ a car. In most places _____ people learn to drive in high school. They have to take a _____ test to get a license. Learning to drive and getting a driver’s ______ may be one of the most exciting things in their lives. For many, that piece of paper is an important symbol(象征)that they are now grown-ups.

  Americans seem to love their cars almost more than anything else. People almost never go to see a doctor when they are _______. But they will take _____ cars to a “hospital” at the smallest sign of a problem. At weekends, people ______ most of the time in washing and waxing(打蜡) their cars. For some families it is not enough to have _____ car. They often have two or even three. Husbands need a car to go to work. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school or _______ activities.

1.A. cars      B. computers     C. bikes

2.A. borrow    B. buy          C. lend

3.A. old        B. tall         C. young

4.A. language   B. listening     C. driving

5.A. address    B. license     C book

6.A. sick       B. healthy      C. pleased

7.A. his        B. her         C.. their

8.A. cost       B. take        C. spend

9.A. no        B. one          C. some

10.A. other     B. another      C. others

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.B

6.A

7.C

8.C

9.B

10.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文描述了在美国汽车很受欢迎。他们梦想有他们自己的汽车。许多学生毕业后工作为了买一辆汽车。他们为了获得驾照不得不参加驾驶证考试。美国人似乎爱他们的汽车胜过其他任何东西。

1.___2___ a car. 可知此处指的是汽车，故选A。

2. lend借出；句意：许多学生毕业后工作为了买一辆汽车。结合句意工作是为了买车，故选B。

3. old 年老的；B. tall 高的；C. young年轻的；句意：在大多数地方，年轻人在高中学习开车。根据in high school可知此处表示高中阶段的，应是年轻人，故选C。

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考点：考查政治经济文化类短文。