标准听力(四)—标准听力(六)(5)

Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar’s enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.
“Tom, no!” shouted his father.
But Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.
Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar’s claws got into his left shoulder, Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye, Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.
“Knife, Tom!” shouted Jeb.
The boy ran to his father’s bag, while Jeb started shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar’s back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.
The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds.Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. Why did Jeb pull his jacket open when he saw the cougar?
【解析】选[C]。选项均以动词不定式开头表明，本题考查行为目的。短文开头提到看到美洲豹时，Jeb…pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar（用两只手把他的夹克?开到最大，是自己的体型大于美洲豹），而美洲豹面对一个体型大于它的人，就会害怕，所以Jeb这样做是为了吓退美洲豹，故答案为[C]。
【点睛】现在分词做伴随状语，由making himself look big to the cougar可推出，其目的是为了吓退美洲豹。
27. What do we know about cougars?
【解析】选[D]。短文中提到Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar （Tom因害怕跑了, 这是面对美洲豹时的大忌），由此可推断出，美洲豹喜欢攻击奔跑中的人，故答案为[D]。the last
thing 意为“最不应该做的事”。
【点睛】听清问题中的cougars，明确选项中They的指代是解答本题的关键。
28. How did Jeb try to hold the cougar’s attention?
【解析】选[A]。选项均以By + doing开头表明，本

题考查方式方法。短文后面提到, Jeb started shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom（Jeb开始大声叫喊，同时用?头打美洲豹，将豹的注意力从Tom身上引开），故答案为[A]。
【点睛】问题中的try to hold the cougar’s attention是对对话中to keep the cougar’s attention away的同义转述。
29. Which of the following happened first?
【解析】选[A]。短文中提到，Jeb将Tom十字交叉抱着后Tom挣脱父亲跑掉，Tom跑掉之后，美洲豹从岩石上跳下来，最后Tom给父亲拿来一把刀，故答案为[A]。
【点睛】听清问题中的happened first是解题的关键。
Passage Two
【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的her mother/grandmother，family，quilts等可知，短文与说话者的家庭生活有关，涉及到被子的情况。

I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. My mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. “What is this?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”
I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together: irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. In the center of the quilt, she had stitched(缝) a piece of cloth with these words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”
“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. Why did the speaker go to mother’s home?
【解析】选[D]。选项均以不定式开头表明，本题可能考查行为目的。短文开头就提到I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday famil
y dinner，即说话者去母亲家是为了周一的家庭聚餐，故答案为[D]。
【点睛】[D]中的family dinner是对短文中family dinner的信息再现，for表目的。


31. Why was the speaker surprised?
【解析】选[A]。短文

中提到，“Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised，其中的this指的前面提到的被子，It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together: irregular designs，childish pictures，a crooked line on the right，可见这条被子特别奇怪，故答案为[A]。
【点睛】[A]中的strange是对短文中irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right的归纳概括。


32. What is mainly talked about in the passage?
【解析】选[C]。选项均为概括性强的名词短语表明，本题可能考查短文的主题或主旨。短文通过母亲的被子引出姥姥的被子，讲述这条被子的制作等，并说明“爱的传递”是这条被子的意义所在，故答案为[C]。
【点睛】短文主旨要根据短文内容进行总结。
Passage Three
【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的She，a less upper-class accent，Her speeches， a …… 此处隐藏：5113字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……