【中级类英语听力】24
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：中级类英语听力
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber 1 to build it had to be carried by wagon 2 many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty 3 looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar - except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone 4 cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty 5 enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. When Dorothy stood in the doorway 6 and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed 7 land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered 8 the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
1. Where does Dorothy live?
On a farm in Kansas with her aunt and uncle
In Kansas with her parents
Alone in a big city
In a mansion 9 with her wealthy relatives
2. What is the small hole in the ground used for?
Storing food for the winter
Hiding in the event of a whirlwind or tornado 10
Planting trees
Cooking over a campfire
3. What is the description of the landscape?
Bright and cheerful
Dull and gray
Blue skies and sunshine
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1. On a farm in Kansas with her aunt and uncle
2. Hiding in the event of a whirlwind or tornado
3. Dull and gray
- The truck was sent to carry lumber.卡车被派出去运木材。
- They slapped together a cabin out of old lumber.他们利用旧木料草草地盖起了一间小屋。
- We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
- The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。
- The lock on the door is rusty and won't open.门上的锁锈住了。
- I haven't practiced my French for months and it's getting rusty.几个月不用，我的法语又荒疏了。
- An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
- The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
- A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
- The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
- They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
- Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
- They plowed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland. 他们犁了将近10万英亩未开垦的高沼地。 来自辞典例句
- He plowed the land and then sowed the seeds. 他先翻土，然后播种。 来自辞典例句
- He had a blistered heel. 他的脚后跟起了泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Their hands blistered, but no one complained. 他们手起了泡，可是没有一个人有怨言。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
- The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。