完形填空。
Louise was 72 years old and she lived by herself. The first thing she noticed when she came downstairs
that Sunday morning was that her
1 window was open. In fact, it was so wide open that she had
2 closing it. Then she realized that things were not in their proper
3 . Finally, when she found her empty
4 on the kitchen table,she realized the awful
5 . At first, she didn't know what to do. Then she decided
to
6 her son, Derek.
Derek's wife Sybil answered the phone, "It's your mother," she
7 him coldly. Louise told Derek about
the open window, about things being in the wrong places and about the
8 missing from her purse.
"All right," said Derek, "Don't
9 anything. I'll be
10 in half an hour."
Louise
11 and made herself a pot of tea and some toast. Then she went from room to room wondering
12 anything else was missing.
When Derek arrived, he was content to
13 her looking so calm. "Have you rung the
14 ?" he asked.
"No? Then I'll do that straight away." So he rang the police.
As it was Sunday,
15 the only detectives were out.However, the police were polite, but vague
(含糊的). "We'll send
16 round as soon as possible," they said.
Derek telephoned his wife. "I'm not sure when I'll be home, love." he told her, "I've got to
17 for the
police." While Derek and his mother waited, Derek
18 the catches (挂钩) on the windows and locks on the
doors. All of them were old and some of the catches hardly
19 at all.Derek felt
20 . His mother was an old
woman, after all. "I'll have to change all these," he told her.
( )1.A.kitchen ( )2.A.strength ( )3.A.positions ( )4.A.purse ( )5.A.mistake ( )6.A.visit ( )7.A.invited ( )8.A.money ( )9.A.say ( )10.A.round ( )11.A.sighed ( )12.A.how ( )13.A.realize ( )14.A.hospital ( )15.A.generally ( )16.A.someone ( )17.A.hope ( )18.A.tested ( )19.A.locked ( )20.A.excited |
B.bedroom B.trouble B.situations B.vase B.message B.ask B.informed B.coin B.move B.here B.relaxed B.why B.find B.neighbour B.luckily B.anyone B.ask B.repaired B.worked B.silly |
C.washroom C.reason C.directions C.pot C.news C.ring C.stated C.note C.touch C.off C.whispered C.if C.know C.police C.considerably C.everyone C.wait C.fixed C.helped C.worried |
D.bathroom D.puzzle D.places D.envelope D.truth D.punish D.scolded D.bill D.prepare D.away D.hurried D.where D.sense D.friend D.unfortunately D.none D.call D.examined D.opened D.guilty |