Question

Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t ___1___ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ___2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___3___ such as strange cars, loud noises, ___4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim ___5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indians, USA. The neighborhood watch group ___6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That’s ___7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ___8___. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ___9___ their homes, streets, and families safe.

Tina Stedman, president of ___10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not ___11___ them. Well, it’s never happened to me.” She said, “But I don’t think anyone has the ___12___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___13___ sitting in their own homes.”

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___14___ out for one another. “We ___15___ each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a ___16___ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, then we call the ___17___. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ___18___, or someone destroying property (財(cái)產(chǎn)), we report to the police.”

Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ___19___ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do ___20___.”

1. A. yet  B. still     C. just     D. rather

2. A. carefully       B. clearly       C. nervously   D. coldly

3. A familiar   B. unusual      C. expensive   D. interesting

4. A. curtained       B. open   C. old     D. broken

5. A. attends   B. belongs      C. goes    D. turns

6. A. meets     B. quarrels      C. sings   D. searches

7. A. where    B. why    C. when  D. how

8. A. politics   B. wealth C. health D. safety

9. A. keep      B. hold    C. let      D. protect

10. A. its B. his      C. their   D. your

11. A. round   B. on      C. about  D. to

12. A. right    B. chance       C. courage      D. mind

13. A. unlucky       B. unsafe C. disappointed     D. discouraged

14. A. set       B. let      C. hold    D. look

15. A. care     B. enter   C. watch  D. manage

16. A. group   B. set      C. number      D. crowd

17. A. judges  B. police C. firemen      D. doctors

18. A. work    B. burden       C. service       D. trouble

19. A. produce       B. find    C. get      D. help

20. A. anything      B. everything  C. harm   D. wrong

Answer 1

1---20           CABDB   ACDAC   DABDC   ABDDB  

解析:

本文主要介紹某社區(qū)一些居民自發(fā)組成治安聯(lián)防隊(duì)協(xié)助警察維護(hù)社區(qū)的安全的一些情況。

1. C。根據(jù)下文內(nèi)容：當(dāng) Tim Becker 開(kāi)車(chē)去買(mǎi)東西時(shí)，他還要到居民區(qū)巡視——這說(shuō)明他不只是(just)開(kāi)著車(chē)從家到商店直去直回。

2. A。通讀全文可知，Tim 對(duì)居民區(qū)的保衛(wèi)工作很負(fù)責(zé)任，故此處填 carefully 為佳。

3. B。陌生人的車(chē)輛、大的噪音、打破的窗戶或者人們聚集在街角等均屬 unusual 的情況。

4. D。按常理，curtained windows, open windows, old windows 都不算 unusual，只有 broken windows 才算 unusual。

5. B。根據(jù)上下文可知，Tim 是 Stoneville, Indians, USA 的治安聯(lián)保隊(duì)隊(duì)員，故填 belong。belong to 為固定短語(yǔ)，其意為“屬于”。

6. 根據(jù)后面的 ...Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss… 可推知此處填 meet 最恰當(dāng)。

7. C。此句的主語(yǔ) that 即指前一句的 the third Wednesday of every month，故此題填 when，它相當(dāng)于 the time when。如下面兩例中的when 就屬此用法：The morning is when I’m busiest. 早晨是我最忙的時(shí)候。/ April is when the lilacs bloom. 四月是丁香開(kāi)花的季節(jié)。

8. D。根據(jù)上下文可知，治安聯(lián)保隊(duì)的目的是保衛(wèi)社區(qū)的安全，故此處應(yīng)填 safety。

9. A。keep sth safe 意為“使某物處于安全的狀態(tài)”，即通常說(shuō)的“保衛(wèi)某物的安全”。注意不要選 protect，因?yàn)樗�通常不用于“�?dòng)詞+賓語(yǔ)+賓語(yǔ)補(bǔ)足語(yǔ)”的結(jié)構(gòu)。

10. C。根據(jù)上下文的語(yǔ)境可推知。

11. D。but not to them 為 but doesn’t happen to them 之省略。此處句意為：人們好像覺(jué)得犯罪(案件)只會(huì)發(fā)生在別人身上而不會(huì)發(fā)生在自己身上。

12. A。right 意為“權(quán)力”，句意為：我認(rèn)為任何人都沒(méi)有權(quán)力偷別人的東西。

13. B。由于本文講的是關(guān)于社區(qū)安全的問(wèn)題，所以選 B 較恰當(dāng)。

14. D。比較四個(gè)選項(xiàng)，只有 look 與其后的 out for 搭配成 look out for(留心，注意)在此最合語(yǔ)境。

15. C。比較四個(gè)選項(xiàng)只有 watch 在此最恰當(dāng)。另外，后面一句 We keep watch on… 也有相應(yīng)的暗示。

16. 后面的 four or five of us 決定了答案應(yīng)是 a group of(一小組，一小隊(duì))，而不是 a set of(一套)、a number of(若干個(gè))或 a crowd of(一大群)。

17. B。根據(jù)其后的 For example, if ..., we report to the police 可推知此處應(yīng)填 police。這里的 For example 是把前面一句的內(nèi)容具體化。

18. D。后面說(shuō) we report to the police，這說(shuō)明出現(xiàn)了一些違法或犯罪現(xiàn)象，如someone destroying poverty 等，四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中能與此并列的應(yīng)是 look for trouble，即選 D。

19. D。比較四個(gè)選項(xiàng)，help 用于此空意思最恰當(dāng)，即社區(qū)治安聯(lián)保隊(duì)對(duì)減少犯罪有很大幫助。

20. B。Jim 說(shuō)“警察都是些好人，但是他們也不可能做好一切”，正因?yàn)槿绱�，社區(qū)治安聯(lián)保隊(duì)的存在就很有必要了。