Question

Mr Baker was a young worker in a watch factory. (1) It took him two hours to walk to the factory from his home__so he had to take a bus to work. But he never carried any money or coins with him, because his friend, Mike took him to his factory, and at about five in the afternoon took him back home.

One day, it was 5:30 in the afternoon. Mr Baker was waiting at the bus stop near his factory, but he couldn’t see Mike’s bus. He waited and waited. It was 6:30, but Mike’s bus didn’t come. (2) Mr Baker waited another half an hour, but he still couldn’t see the bus__

“My God,” Mr Baker said to himself. “Tomorrow I will carry some money with me.” (3) He had to go back home on foot.

A）根据短文内容，完成下列句子，每空词数不限。

1.Mr Baker usually went to work ____.

2.From the story we know that Mr Baker would carry ____ the next day.

B)完成下列任务。

3.把文中标有（1）处的划线部分的句子变为同义句。

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4.把文中标有（2）处的划线部分的句子翻译成汉语。

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5.把文中标有（3）处的划线部分的句子变为一般疑问句。

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Answer

1.by bus/on a bus

2.some money

3.He/Mr Baker spent two hours walking to the factory from his home.

4.贝克先生又等了半个小时，但他仍然没有看见那辆公共汽车。

5.Did he have to go back home on foot?

【解析】Baker先生总是乘坐他的朋友Mike的公交车去上下班，所以他从来不带钱。但是又一次，他下班回家的时候，没有看到Mike的公交车，这下他只能走着回去了。

1.根据短文第一段中It took him two hours to walk to the factory from his home so he had to take a bus to work.可知，Baker先生走路去工厂需要花费两个小时的时间，所以他经常坐公交车去上班，by bus和on a bus都是介词短语，乘坐公交车。

2.根据文意可知，Baker先生经常不带钱，因为他的朋友Mike经常带他去工厂，下班之后，再把他带回来。但是有一天他没有看到Mike的公交车，所以他只能走路回家。所以他说“Tomorrow I will carry some money with me.”他明天会带一些钱。故填some money。

3.原句的意思是：从他的家走路去工厂花费他两个小时的时间，这句话中使用了take表示花费的句型It takes sb. some time to do sth.；变同义句我们可以用spend，它的句型是sb. spends some time in doing sth.，因此应填He spent two hours walking to the factory from his home.

4.another half an hour又等了半个小时，这里的another表示再一个，又一个；句中but表示转折。

5.原句使用的是一般过去时态，变一般疑问句的时候，如果原句中有be动词或者情态动词的形式，那么可以直接将他们提到主语的前面；如果没有，应在句首加助动词do/does/did，这句话是一般过去时态，故加助动词did，原来的过去式形式要变成原形，故had 变为have，其他成分照抄。

点睛：这篇短文记叙了Baker先生是如何上班的事情。短文内容简单，比较容易理解。后面的任务类型较多，有填空、翻译和句型转换，考查了文章的细节和一些英语中的句型的用法。例如第3小题，这个题目要求变同义句，考查的是两个表示花费的词take 和spend，这两个词的用法学生们应该比较熟悉，老师也会特别强调，关键是要记住他们的句型构成，注意使用动词的正确形式。再例如第5小题，考查的是变一般疑问句，这也是英语中的一个基础句型变化，要熟记句型变化的原则，并注意一些细节，如这句话中要把原来的过去式变为原形。