【答案】We may look at the world around us

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappears. __1 _, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I __2 _ to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter __3 _ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On __4 _ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime __5 _ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. __6 _, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I __7__ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how __8__ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I __9__ her.

"Did she have an accident? Something __10 ?" I thought to myself about her _11 _.  Now that she was gone, I felt I had __12   her. I began to realize that part of our _13 _ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar _14 _: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who _15 _ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are _16 _ markers in our lives. They add weight to our _17   of place and belonging.

Think about it. _18 _ while walking to work, we mark where we are by _19__ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though _20 _ person?

(     )  1. A. Make         (     )  2. A. happened     (     )  3. A. what         (     )  4. A. sunny         (     )  5. A. took         (     )  6. A. Clearly       (     )  7. A. believed     (     )  8. A. long         (     )  9. A. respected     (     )10. A. better       (     )11. A. disappearance (     )12. A. forgotten     (     )13. A. happy         (     )14. A. friends       (     )15. A. regularly     (     )16. A. common       (     )17. A. choice       (     )18. A. Because       (     )19. A. keeping       (     )20. A. unnamed

B. Take           B. wanted         B. how           B. rainy           B. brought         B. Particularly   B. expressed       B. often           B. missed         B. worse         B. appearance     B. lost           B. enjoyable       B. strangers       B. actually       B. pleasant       B. knowledge     B. If             B. changing       B. unforgettable

C. Give         C. used         C. which         C. cloudy       C. carried       C. Luckily       C. remembered   C. soon         C. praised       C. more         C. misfortune   C. known         C. usual         C. tourists     C. hardly       C. important     C. decision     C. Although     C. passing       C. unbelievable

D. Have         D. tried       D. when         D. snowy       D. turned       D. Especially   D. wondered     D. much         D. admired     D. less         D. fortune     D. hurt         D. daily       D. guests       D. probably     D. faithful     D. sense       D. However     D. mentioning   D. unreal

答案
1-5: BCADB

6-10: ACDBB

11-15: A CDBA

16-20: CDBCA

考点名称：故事类阅读

故事类阅读是初中英语经常遇到的考试题型，这类题目规律性很强，同学们只要多练习就可以很快掌握故事类英语阅读题目。

故事，可以解释为旧事、旧业、先例、典故、花样等涵义，同时，也是文学体裁的一种，侧重于事情过程的描述，强调情节跌宕起伏，从而阐发道理或者价值观。

故事类阅读理解选材来源于日常生活，给人以似曾相识的感觉。体裁一般是记叙文，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。写作手法多采用时间、空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终。命题以细节为主，推理为辅。应特别注意对人物的外貌、语言、动作和思想的描写，从而把握人物性格特点和作者的情感态度。若是叙述性的文章，要读懂起因、经过、结果。若是故事性文章应读懂故事的发生、发展、高潮、结局。