完型填空(共20题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
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 36 .It read:"Easy job.Good wages.No experience 37 ."it sounded like the job I was 38 .Easy job.Good Wages.Those four words 39 now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the 40 .Easy job.Good wages.Easy job.Good Wages.Easy...
When I got to the place I saw a series of large 41 half filled with water, out of which I noticed 42 the necks of many bottles of various sizes and shapes. 43 these basins there were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches.All had their 44 in the water of the basin.the left hand holding a 45 and the thumb(拇指)nail of the right hand 46 the labels(标签)on it.
I Sat down On a 47 beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle.As the minutes went by I noticed that the 48 0f the water started to 49 from my hand to my body.But 50 still, the delicate thumb of my right hand was 51 by the minute into a full-blown tomato-colored finger.A numb(麻木)pain began to be felt 52 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 53 .He figured I had 54 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 55 myself, "Can easy job get good wages?"
A.eyes B.attention C.decision D.breath
A.necessary B.relevant C.practical D.primitive
A.running after B.looking for C.heading for D.looking after
A.circled B.moved C.flashed D.attacked
A.letter B.sign C.advertisement D.post
A.baskets B.bowls C.pots D.basins
A.hiding B.sticking C.rising D.breaking
A.In B.Above C.Under D.Around
A.arms B.hands C.legs D.feet
A.knife B.snail C.bottle D.brush
A.painting B.decorating C.refreshing D.scratching
A.chair B.bench C.bottle D.sofa
A.smell B.coldness C.color D.steam
A.spread B.travel C.recycle D.accelerate
A.worse B.better C.more D.rather
A.going B.finding C.growing D.becoming
A.now and then B.here and there C.one by one D.little by little
A.adapt B.negotiate C.bargain D.quit
A.taken B.offered C.earned D.created
A.thought B.asked C.found D.hated