Question

Last year I_______ like my English class at all. The teacher spoke so quickly that I did not understand her most of the time. I was _______to answer the teacher's questions _______my poor pronunciation. I just hid behind my textbook and never said _____.

Then one day I watched an English movie _______Toy Story, I fell in love with it at once. So I began to watch other English movies, _______, I realized I could get the meaning by______for just the key words. I discovered that listening to something interesting is the secret to language learning. I also learned some useful sentences like "It's a piece of cake" or "It serves you right". I

didn't understand them at first. But because I wanted to understand the story, I looked them ____ in a dictionary. Little by little, I really enjoy my English class. And my English has improved a lot.

1.A.don't B.didn't C.haven't D.hadn't

2.A.proud B.afraid C.happy D.excited

3.A.because of B.because C.since D.as

4.A.anything B.something C.nothing D.everything

5.A.called B.call C.calling D.calls

6.A.as well B.too C.also D.neither

7.A.listen B.listened C.listening D.listens

8.A.up B.for C.at D.after

Answer

1.B

2.B

3.A

4.A

5.A

6.B

7.C

8.A

【解析】

短文主要讲述了去年作者不喜欢英语课，每一节课就像一场噩梦，后来有一天，作者看了一部英文电影叫《玩具总动员》，从此作者就喜欢上英语课了。并且得出兴趣是学习语言秘诀的结论。

1.句意：去年我一点也不喜欢我的英语课。四个选项中的单词都可以用作助动词，A. don't一般现在时；B. didn't一般过去时；C. haven't现在完成时；D. hadn't过去完成时。根据时间状语Last year判断，句子的时态为一般过去时，因此助动词要用didn’t，答案为B。

2.句意：由于我的发音不好我害怕回答问题。A. proud自豪的；B. afraid害怕的；C. happy高兴的；D. excited兴奋的。根据后面的句子“I just hid behind my textbook and never said ___4___.”可以判断，作者不敢回答老师提出的问题，be afraid to do sth.害怕做某事，故答案为B。

3.句意：由于我的发音不好我害怕回答问题。A. because of因为，由于，后跟代词/名词(名词性短语)/动词的ing形式；B. because因为，后跟从句；C. since由于，后面跟从句；D. as由于，当…时候，后面跟从句。只有A答案符合题意。

4.句意：我只是藏在课本后面，一言不发。A. anything任何东西（用于否定句、疑问句中）；B. something一些事情；C. nothing没有东西，没有事情；D. everything每件事物，一切。never是否定词，此句是否定句，故使用不定代词anything，答案为A。

5.句意：后来有一天我看了一部叫《玩具总动员》的英文电影。现在分词与过去分词都可以用作后置定语，现在分词作后置定语，与所修饰的词之间是主动关系，过去分词作后置定语，与所修饰的词之间是被动的关系，called Toy Story作an English movie的后置定语，意为一部被叫作《玩具总动员》的英文电影。表示被动关系，故答案为A。

6.句意：因此我也开始看其它的英文电影。A. as well“也”，放于句尾，前面没有标点符号；B. too“也”，常置于句末，前面有逗号；C. also“也”，一般用于句子中，其位置在行为动词之前，be动词，助动词，情态动词之后；D. neither两者都不。本题所设空在句末，且前面有标点符号，故答案为B。

7.句意：我也意识到我能通过听关键词来理解意思。by是介词，后面要用名词或动名词，by doing sth.通过做某事的方式，故答案为C。

8.句意：我在字典中查询它们。look up在（词典、参考书中）查阅；look for寻找；look at看一看；look after照顾。根据前面的内容可知，不会的单词在字典中查询，故答案为A。