英语作业1

解析:

考点：动词短语。insist on doing sth. “执意做某事”。句意：尽管我告诉他我住在附近，但是他坚持开车送我回家。

20、We worked hard and completed the task _____.

A、in the time B、on the time C、ahead of time D、before time 考生答案:C 参考答案:C 解析:

考点:介词短语。ahead of time意为“提前”；in advance意为“事先，预先”；in time“及时”。句意：我们努力工作并且提前完成了任务。

三、阅读理解

Once James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was asked to paint some pictures on the walls of the king's palace in England.

Then workers were sent for and a big platform（台子）was made.

With the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the platform. They worked for a whole year and at last the pictures were ready.

Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were really beautiful. He looked at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even more beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform, but he didn't know it because he was thinking of his pictures.

The worker saw everything. \very edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off it and surely be killed. \（漆）and threw it at the pictures. \21、James Thornhill was an English ______.

A、worker B、artist C、king D、writer 考生答案:B 参考答案:B 解析:

22、He was ordered to ______.

A、paint the wall of the king's palace in England B、paint some pictures on the wall of the palace C、build a big platform in front of the palace D、put up some new pictures on the old wall 考生答案:B 参考答案:B 解析:

23、It took them ______ to finish the pictures.

A、a month B、a week

C、twelve months D、half a month 考生答案:C 参考答案:C 解析:

24、James Thornhill felt that the ______ he was from the pictures, the ______ they were.

A、nearer…more beautiful B、farther…more ugly C、farther…more beautiful

D、higher above…more good-looking 考生答案:C 参考答案:C 解析:

25、The worker threw some paint at the pictures in order to ______.

A、save James' life B、destroy the picture

C、make the picture more beautiful D、make the king angry 考生答案:A 参考答案:A 解析:

Mr Brown was very good at fixing things around the house when they broke. One day he went to another city to do some work there, and his wife was alone in the house. While Mr Brown was away, one of the faucets（自来水龙头） on the bathtub broke. Mrs Brown didn't know much about fixing broken faucets, so she telephoned a plumber（管子工）.

The plumber came to the house that afternoon and fixed the faucet in a few minutes. When he finished, he gave Mrs Brown his bill for the work.

She looked at it for several seconds and then said, \aren't they? Do you know, the doctor costs less than this when he comes to the house?\

\doctor until I was lucky enough to find this job a few months ago.\

26、As one of her faucets broke, Mrs Brown asked a plumber to fix it.

A、T B、F 考生答案:A 参考答案:A 解析:

27、It took the plumber only a few minutes to finish the work because the plumber didn't do it carefully, but very quickly.

A、T B、F 考生答案:B 参考答案:B 解析: