阅读下面的短文,从所给的四个选项中选择最佳答案填空：
Mr Smith lives in the small village,but he works in an office in a big city.He goes to work by train every morning and comes ___1___ the same way.
One morning while he was ___2___ his newspaper on the train,a man ___3___ him came up to him.Mr Smith had not met him before.The man said,“ ___4___ ” to him and then ___5___ to talk to him.The man said,“Your ___6___ isn’t interesting,is it?You got on the same train at the same station at the same time ___7___ morning and you always sit in the same seat and read the same newspaper.”
When Mr Smith ___8___ this,he put his newspaper down,turned around and ___9___ to the man angrily,“How do you know all that about me?”
“Because I’m ___10___ sitting in the same seat behind you,” the man answered.
1.A.family B.house C.village D.home
2.A.seeing B.look C.reading D.finding
3.A.before B.behind C.beside D.next to
4.A.Sorry B.Thanks C.Hello D.Goodbye
5.A.refused B.stopped C.ordered D.began
6.A.life B.work C.office D.child
7.A.one B.every C.this D.yesterday
8.A.heard B.listened C.found D.felt
9.A.asked B.said C.told D.talked
10.A.never B.hardly C.always D.sometimes
【答案与解析】
本文是个幽默故事.讲述一个人说另一个人每天早上重复做同一件事,这样生活单调,其实自己也一样.
1.D 表示回家是come home与前面的去上班go to work相对.
2.C 表示看书看报用read.
3.B 由文末I’m sitting in the same seat behind you可知.
4.C 从下文可知是向他召呼问好,所以是say “Hello” to him.
5.D 打了召呼后自然就会开始(began) 谈起话来.
6.A 在同一时间、同一个车站、乘同一个火车,这是种单是调泛味的生活 (life).而不是这工作,也不是办公,更不是指小孩.
7.B 指每天早上都是如此,才会说单调泛味.
8.A 史密斯先生听到(heard) 这些话.listen指有意识在“听”,强调动作,后接宾语时要加to；hear指听的结果“听到”.
9.B say to sb对某人说.虽然后面是一个问句,但表示问某人时ask后不用to,而直接说ask sb.
10.C 因为对史密斯先生如此了解,当然是“总”总在他的后面了.