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　　Electricity is such a part of our everyday life that we rarely think twice when we turn on the lights or TV. At night, roads are brightly ____1____, making people and traffic move ____2____. Colorful ____3____ have become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many ____4____ saving objects are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the beside ____5____ and are fast asleep, it is still working for us, driving our ____6____ ,or keeping our rooms at a normal temperature. Every day, trains take us to and from work, we rarely stop ____7____ how they run until something goes____8____.

　　

　　In the summer of 1959, the power station that supplies New York with electricity was ____9____ order. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, ____10____ to do anything. ____11____ stopped working. So that even if you were lucky enough not to be ____12____ between two floors, you had the tiring ____13____ of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. People were afraid to leave homes, for they were just as ____14____ as anybody else, although the police had been ordered to ____15_____ by in case something unexpected should happen.

　　At the same time, ____16_____ disorder happened in the home, _____17______ rooms became stoves, fish and meat remained uncooked in the pots, and people sat ____18____ and frightened in the dark. One of the strangest things was that some fifty ____19____ people led many sighted workers home. When the electricity came on again, _____20_____ a person in the city can have turned on a switch without thinking how great a servant he had at his finger tips.

 

(1)A.repaired	B.oiled	C.lit	D.swept
(2)A.highly	B.free	C.freely	D.heavily
(3)A.lives	B.clothes	C.objects	D.streetlights
(4)A.labor	B.money	C.time	D.bank
(5)A.TV	B.lamps	C.beds	D.rooms
(6)A.fridges	B.cars	C.toys	D.mind
(7)A.seeing	B.thinking	C.to 　　 see	D.to 　　 think
(8)A.well	B.bad	C.wrong	D.good
(9)A.in	B.under	C.beyond	D.out 　　 of
(10)A.powerless	B.powerful	C.ready	D.hopeless
(11)A.Lifts	B.Workers	C.Motors	D.Telephones
(12)A.living	B.trapped	C.shocked	D.stepping
(13)A.body	B.career	C.task	D.work
(14)A.helpless	B.helpful	C.hopeless	D.hopeful
(15)A.live	B.pass	C.stand	D.sit
(16)A.greater	B.less	C.similar	D.different
(17)A.Small	B.Large	C.Hot	D.Cool
(18)A.impatient	B.excited	C.disappointed	D.nervous
(19)A.deaf	B.old	C.blind	D.lame
(20)A.many	B.hardly	C.only	D.nearly

Answer 1

答案：C;C;D;A;B;A;D;C;D;D;A;B;C;A;C;C;D;A;C;B
解析：

1．Lit（1ight）“照亮”。其余各項盡管能使句意勉強，但不合文意。

2．freely“自由地（行動）”，free“免費”，heavily與people不搭配。

3．colorful lives/clothes/objects盡管是對的，但不合文意。

4．labor saving“省力的”。time saving“省時的”。

5．關掉床頭燈而入睡。

6．driving的邏輯主語是it(electricity)，故只能選擇A，不能選B。

7．我們很少停下來想一想火車是怎么跑起來的。stop thinking“不想”，stop to think“停下來想一想”。

8．something goes wrong，起到了啟下的作用。

9．out of order=going wrong．not working。

10．被關在黑暗的車廂里，對什么都無能為力。

11．談的是電梯(electric lift)。

12．be trapped between two floors四個選項的短語動詞所表達的意思不同，句意為“被困在兩樓層之間”。

13．電梯停了。即使你幸運沒被困在兩樓層之間，人也得面臨這樣令人疲憊不堪的任務：摸索著走下數百階樓梯。

14．因為他們與其他人一樣孤立無助。（因為整個街一片黑暗）。

16．上段說的是戶外混亂情況，本段講的是家庭混亂情況。家庭混亂充其量與公共場所相似(Similar)，不可能比之更嚴重(greater)。

17．由上下文知。

18．impatient“不耐煩的，是停電造成的煩躁、期待心情”。

19．這是一般生活常識，且與sighted相對。

20．當電又來了，人們找開開關的時候，全城幾乎沒有一個人不想到手指尖上的這個奴仆是多么偉大啊！