A. by
B.on
C. up
D. with
參考答案：B
本題詳解： 黑猩猩弄來盒子是為了增加高度，所以她應站在箱子之上，即填介詞 on。
13、
A.straight
B.strong
C. long
D. big
參考答案：C
本題詳解： 站在箱子上，高度仍不夠，故又弄來一根 pole(竿)。根據(jù)常識，在此情況下，這 pole 的特征應是 long。
14、
A.wall
B.. box
C. ceiling
D. pole
參考答案：B
本題詳解： 根據(jù)上文可知。
15、
A.knocked
B.picked
C. took
D.shocked
參考答案：A
本題詳解： 根據(jù)常識和語境，黑猩猩此時應是用竿 knock 食物。
16、
A. lives
B.acts
C.thinks
D.plays
參考答案：A
本題詳解： 從本段后面內(nèi)容可知，這只黑猩猩是像人一樣在“生活”(live)。
17、
A.task
B. lesson
C.day
D. time
參考答案：C
本題詳解： 根據(jù)下文語境用排除法可推知答案。
18、
A.. Here
B.There
C.So
D. Then
參考答案：B
本題詳解： 根據(jù)上文可知這里的 there 指“在家里”。
19、
A.quite
B.already
C. even
D. still
參考答案：C
本題詳解： 對于黑猩猩來說，enjoys watching television before going to bed 顯然比 play with toys 更不常見，故用even(甚至)強調(diào)后者。
20、
A.observe
B. discover
C. gain
D.learn
參考答案：D
本題詳解：learn 的意思是“了解”，即指通過研究黑猩猩來“了解”人類自己。
三、閱讀理解(40 points)
A
My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks. It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work. I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have. When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle. The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴樹枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field ― except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
1、 The writer’s first job was _______.
A. to stand down the fairway at a golf course
B.to watch over the sugar-cane plantation
C.to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields
D.to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them
參考答案：C
本題詳解：語義理解題。第 1 段第 2 句話My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields 和題干幾乎完全相同。
2、The word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.
A. difficult
B.boring
C.interesting
D.unusual
參考答案：B
本題詳解： 詞義猜測題。從第 2 段第 2 句話中的I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could 可以推知 tedious 的正確詞義。