When her neighbor Grandma Wang became ill, the girl often ______.A.fitted inB.worked outC.
When her neighbor Grandma Wang became ill, the girl often ______.
A.fitted in
B.worked out
C.held back
D.helped out
When her neighbor Grandma Wang became ill, the girl often ______.
A.fitted in
B.worked out
C.held back
D.helped out
第1题
Of the three women that buried Mrs. Townsend secretly, one was ______.
A.her neighbor
B.her nurse
C.a social worker
D.her daughter
第2题
Passage Four
Three women who secretly buried an 80-year-old woman were put into prison at Birmingham yester day. Two of them, including the dead woman's daughter, kept on collecting her pension (退休金) after her death until their secret was made known to others two years later. The court (法庭) heard that one of the women put on "an Oscar (奥斯卡金奖)—winning performance" by pretending to be the old woman asleep in bed when a social worker called five mouths after Mrs. Townsend's death.
48. Of the three women that buried Mrs. Townsend secretly, one was ______.
A. her neighbor
B. her nurse
C. a social worker
D. her daughter
第3题
All three girls are motherless. Fiercely political Alice discovers that her parents are her grandparents, who thereupon shrivel: "Lie had kept them young whereas the truth had accelerated them practically into oldness". Both parents of the sorrowful Corvus drowned while driving on a flooded interstate off-ramp. The mother of the more conventional Annabel ("one of those people who would say, we'll get in touch soonest' when they never wanted to see you again") slammed her car drunkenly into a fish restaurant. Later, Annabel's father observes to his wife's ghost. "You didn't want to order what I ordered, darling". The sharp-tongued ghost snaps back: "That's because you always ordered badly and wanted me to experience your miserable mistake".
Against a roundly apocalyptic world view, the great pleasures of this book are line-by-line. Ms. Williams can break setting and character alike in a few slashes: "it was one of those rugged American places, a remote, sad-ass, but courageous downwind town whose citizens were flawed and brave". Alice's acerbity spits little wisdoms: putting lost teeth under a pillow for money is "a classic capitalistic consumer trick, designed to wean you away at an early age from healthy horror' and sensible dismay to greedy, deluded, sunny expectancy".
Whether or not the novel, like Alice, expressly advocates animal rights, an animal motif crops up in every scene, as flesh-and-blood "critters" (usually dead) or plain decoration on crockery. If Ms. Williams does not intend to induce human horror at a pending cruel Armageddon, she at least invokes a future of earthly loneliness, where animals appear only as ceramic-hen butter dishes and extinct-species Elastoplasts. One caution: when flimsy narrative superstructure begins to sag, anarchic wackiness can grow wearing. While The Quick and the Dead is sharp from its first page, the trouble with starting at the edge is there is nowhere to go. Nevertheless, Ms. Williams is original, energetic and viscously funny: Carl Hiaasen with a conscience.
The girls in the novel______.
A.did nothing substantive except criticizing the reality
B.protected animals successfully
C.were cruel to the animals
D.murdered their neighbor's dog
第4题
She made a ______ when a boy kicked a football into her garden.
A.rumor
B.fuss
C.testimony
D.temper
第5题
When she found her daughter was running a high fever, she ______ took her to hospital.
A.promptly
B.consequently
C.consistently
D.provokingly
第6题
A.deceived
B.deserted
C.unfortunate
D.disappointed
第7题
When Tom came in, Mary ______ her talk with Jane and talked to Peter.
A.broke off
B.broke down
C.broke away
D.broke in
第8题
When she heard that her mother was safe she immediately _______
A.hurried up
B.kept up
C.cheered up
D.held up
第9题
When the writer asked for a divorce, her husband ______.
A.told her that she would never find one who loved her as he did
B.delayed two years before giving her a reply
C.accused her of having an affair
D.said that she was unattractive and not worth loving
第10题
Don't mention your current situation to her when ______ to her. (talk)