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2．It was six or seyen years ago that I first witnessed a ginger cat break into my house．His name was Samson and，while"cat''was one description you might have applied to him，another more accurate one was"ginger beach ball that just happened to have a cat's head on top"．He belonged to Ruby，a lady in her 80s living across the road．Soon the two of us became friends：me allowing him to steal my cat's biscuits，him allowing me to stroke him while staring up at me in a relaxed way．If he had been able to speak，the maj ority of his sentences would have ended in the word"dude"（伙計）．
    When Ruby died in 2009，a friend who lived several miles away adopted Samson．A strict diet foilowed，which，left Samson looking less like a beach ball and more like a smaller cat wearing a baggy ginger sweater．While he had been around，I had complained a little about mv extra cat food bills and feared for my armchairs and sofa which were often violently scratched．but in the year or two after he'd gone I missed him a lot．
    In the past two and a half years，I've been visited by a succession of ginger cats，all of whom have been lovable，and all of whom have proved costly in either an emotional or financial sense．
    I'm moving out soon and facing up to the fact that I might never see them again．I've told the buver of my house about the essential information of it，especially the visiting cats．The chances are that one day if a cat，whether it is from one of the neighbours or just a stray one，turns up by his doorway，he can at least feed it．

41．When the author first saw the ginger cat，D．
A．she named it Samson immediately
B．she thought Samson was troublesome
C．she asked Ruby to adopt it
D．she found the cat looked very fat
42．We can conclude from Paragraph l that the ginger catB．
A．was not properly trained    
B．enjoyed the moment with the author
C．was abandoned by Ruby   
D．disliked the biscuits of the author
43．Why did the author occasionally complain about the ginger cat？C
A．The cat stole bills from her house．
B．The strict diet made the cat too weak．
C．He had to spend more on cat food．
D．The price of cat food kept rising．
44．Who does the underlined word"he"in the last sentence refer to？D
A．The ginger cat   
B．The author
C．Ruby          
D．The new owner of the house
45．We can infer from the story that the authorA
A．missed the days spent with those cats
B．regretted what she had done for the cats
C．had many encounters with strange cats
D．had to avoid conflicts with his neighbours．

Answer 1

分析 本文屬于故事類的閱讀短文．文章介紹了一只貓經常光顧他的家并且在兩年半的時光里與他有了較大的默契，經常在一起玩耍、嬉戲等；在最后搬家之后還一直牽掛著這只貓，希望新的房主以后能夠善待這只貓．

解答 41．D．細節理解題．根據開頭第二句while"cat''was one description you might have applied to him，another more accurate one was"ginger beach ball that just happened to have a cat's head on top"．可知，作者剛見到這只貓時，它的體形像一個大充氣球（沙灘氣球）：beach ball；所以可推知它是很肥胖的；"His name was Samson"文中只提到了它的名字叫Samson，沒說是作者給起的名，可排除A；C項是對"He belonged to Ruby"一句的曲解；文中沒有提到作者認為這只貓是個麻煩；故選D．
42．B．細節理解題．根據句中"Soon the two of us became friends"以及作者最后的假設"If he had been able to speak，the majority of his sentences would have ended in the word"dude"可知，Samson與作者的相處是比較融洽的；文中沒有提到它是被主人Ruby遺棄的，排除C；D項與"me allowing him to steal my cat's biscuits"描述矛盾，可排除．故選B．
43．C．細節理解題．根據第二段"While he had been around，I had complained a little about mv extra cat food bills"一句可知，Samson是比較能吃的，所以作者抱怨的是Samson的食量是比較大的；故選C．
44．D．猜測詞義題．根據最后一句的陳述"The chances are that one day if a cat，whether it is from one of the neighbours or just a stray one，turns up by his doorway，he can at least feed it"可知，作者期待自己搬家之后，當這只貓出現在"他"的家門前時，至少可以給他食物吃，所以此處的he應該指代的是這房子的新主人；故選D．
45．A．推理判斷題．根據最后一段"I might never see them again．I've told the buver of my house about the essential information of it，especially the visiting cats"等信息可知，作者應該是很牽掛這只貓的，所以，可以推斷出A項他很懷念與這只貓共處的日子，所以選A．

點評 本文屬于故事類閱讀，在閱讀此類文章時首先迅速瀏覽全文內容，掌握文章的大意，了解這只貓與作者所經歷的事情，掌握作者的情感變化，再結合題干要求，閱讀文章相關內容，做出有針對性的選擇．