15. A. always B. usually C. sometimes D. never 16. A. how B. when C. what D. where 17. A. strict with B. proud of C. angry with D. sure of 18. A. nothing B. anything C. something D. everything 19. A. picked up B. pointed at C. talked about D. looked after 20. A. suggestions B. invitations C. situation D. attention 21. A. buy B. rent C. clean D. notice 22. A. but B. and C. so D. or 23. A. common B. natural C. possible D. necessary 24. A. farm B. lake C. park D. market 25. A. find B. spread C. collect D. describe 题材：人物故事
【主旨大意】本文是一篇记叙文。讲述在贫困家庭中成长的Johnnie Martin在学校不擅长功课，却在走出学校后在园林种植方面有一番成就。
11. A 【解析】考查名词词义的辨析。根据句意：They had dreamed that their son could get a good job and live a better life. 只有找到好的工作才能过更好的生活。故选A。
12. A【解析】考查介词词义的辨析。go into意为“进入”，由句意，他进入心理咨询室寻求帮助。故选A。
13. C【解析】考查形容词词义的辨析。根据句意，心理老师对他的学习做了仔细的 (careful)研究。故选C.
14. B【解析】考查动词词义的辨析。由上下文，Johnnie Martin学习赶不上去，他都快要哭了(cry)。故选B。
15. D 【解析】考查副词词义的辨析。根据句意：有不会学数学的画家，故选否定意义的副词never。故选D。
16. C【解析】考查疑问词词义的辨析。由句意：Some day you will find what you are good at. 总有一天你会找到你所擅长的东西。故选C。
17. B【解析】考查形容词词义的辨析。be proud of 意为“为….而骄傲”，由句意，他要成为父母和所有的人都为之感到骄傲的人。故选B。
18.C 【解析】考查代词词义的辨析。由上下文，令人惊讶的事情发生了，用表示肯定意义的something。故选C。
19. D 【解析】考查动词短语的辨析。根据句意：有他照顾的植物长大了。look after意为“照顾；照料”。故选D。
20. A 【解析】考查名词词义的辨析。根据句意：人们开始接受他对园林的建议（suggestions）。故选A。
21. D 【解析】考查动词词义的辨析。根据句意he happened to ______ an unusual dirty land behind the city hall可知, 他碰巧(notice)注意到城市礼堂后面一块不同寻常的脏地。故选D。
22. A 【解析】考查连词词义的辨析。根据句意：That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission, he started the work, ______ he couldn’t afford all the tools or the plants. 他买不起所有的工具、植物与获得许可开始工作是转折关系。故选A. 23. D 【解析】考查形容词词义的辨析。由句意：工具和植物都是建造花园所必需的。故选D。
24. C 【解析】考查名词词义的辨析。由句意：Before long, it had become a beautiful little park.故选C。
25. B 【解析】考查动词词义的辨析。由句意：Wherever he and his men go, they spread beauty before the eyes of people, 他们把美传播到人们的眼前。故选B。
(2017浙江台州) 二、完形填空
从A、B、C三个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
When things went wrong, Freddy always had something nice to say.
When Dad forget about the pizza and it burned. Freddy said “Don’t worry. It’ll still taste good.” And he was 16 . The pizza edges were dark, but the middle wasn’t half bad.
When his teacher Mr. Hall knocked into a bookshelf in the 17 , Freddy said,
“Don’t worry. Mrs. Bog won’t be upset.” The librarian just laughed and helped 18
the books. Freddy looked on the bright side. And everyone liked that about
19 .
Everyone, that is, except Hazel.
Hazel was the 20 kid in class. On her first day, Freddy said “Nice to meet you, Hazel. I think you’ll like it here.”
“I 21 it,” she talked back. Freddy had never met anyone like her. When Mr. Hall said they’d have a break inside 22 it was raining. Freddy said, “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
“A silver lining?” Hazel shook her head. “Bad things come in 23 .” Greta was carrying paints in 24 class. She fell over, and paints went flying.
“That was the second bad thing. What will the third thing be?” Hazel seemed so 25 about the Rule of Three Bad Things.
“It’s beautiful!” Emma picked up Freddy’s painting, not realizing she had paint on her fingers.
“Freddy’s picture is 26 !” Hazel pointed, “There’s number three.” Emma looked sad. “I’m sorry, Freddy.”
“It’s OK...If you add 27 , the fingerprints could look like butterflies(蝴蝶),” said Freddy.
28 refused to put a finger on Freddy’s paper. Only Hazel did.
“Want to add one?” Freddy asked.
Hazel thought about it, then nodded. She put her finger into paint, gently(温柔地) pressed it onto Freddy’s painting and 29 added wings.
“It looks great,” said Freddy.
Hazel 30 . “You know, I don’t really think there’s a Rule of Three Bad Things.”
Sometimes, there are good things hiding where you don’t expect them. 16. A. clever 17. A. shop 18. A. pick up
B. right C. active D. famous B. gym
C. library
D. museum D. throw away
B. look after C. go through
19. A. me B. her C. you D. him
20. A. lucky B. new C. excellent D. smart 21. A. expect B. believe C. doubt D. understand 22. A. although 23. A. twos 24. A. science
B. unless C. until B. Threes
D. because
C. fours D. fives
D. history D. sure D. on sale D. bodies
B. music C. art
25. A. happy B. worried C. sorry 26. A. in a mess B. on show 27. A. wings
B. eyes
C. in fashion C. legs
28. A. Everybody B. Somebody C. Anybody D. Nobody 29. A. angrily 30. A. smiled 题材：人物故事
16-20 BCADB 21-25 CDBCD 26-30 AADCA
【主旨大意】本文是一篇记叙文。讲述了一个男孩在遇到问题时，总能找到好的一面，在他的影响下，他的同学也在改变，赞美了他的乐观主义精神。 16. B【解析】考查形容词词义辨析。句意：他是_________的。披萨的边缘是黑色的，但是中间没有一半是坏的。clever聪明的；right对的；active有活力的；famous著名的。根据披萨的边缘黑了，但里面还不坏，可知他是对的。故选B。 17. C【解析】考查名词词义辨析。句意：当他的老师霍尔撞上一个书架时，……。shop商店；gym体育馆；library图书室；museum博物馆。根据上下文可知撞到书架应该是在图书室里。故选C。
18. A【解析】考查动词短语辨析。句意：图书馆员只是笑着，帮助_____这本书。根据前面撞上书架，推测出书掉到地下，图书管理员是帮着捡起书。pick up捡起；look after照顾，照看；look through浏览；throw away扔掉。故选A。 19. B 【解析】考查代词词义辨析。句意：每个人都喜欢他这一点。根据句意可知此处指代Freddy，根据第三段“When his teacher Mr. Hall…”可知Freddy是男孩，所以要用he的宾格him。故选B。
20. B【解析】考查形容词词义辨析。句意：榛子是班上的______孩子。lucky幸运的；new新的；excellent极好的；smart聪明的。根据下文中，当他第一次来
B. quickly B. promised
C. carefully D. secretly C. warned D. shouted