The 1____ picked up the thermos and poured some hot water into the tea-cup and placed it on the small table in front of his 2____, who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously 3_____ of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the 4 _____ on the table. His two guests heard a box of drawers opening and a rustling(飒飒地响). They 5 _____ sitting in the living-room, the 10-year-old daughter, looking at the flowers outside the window. The father was just about to take his cup when the 6 ____ came, right there in the living room. Something was hopelessly broken. It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked 7 ____ her shoulder at once, startled(吓一跳), 8_____. It was 9 _____.Neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. The sound caused the host to rush back from the inner room. He looked at the 10_____ floor and blurted out（脱口而出）, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter!” The father started to say something. Then he muttered（嘀咕）, “ Sorry, I 11_____ it and it fell.” “It doesn’t matter,” the host said. Later, when they left the house the daughter said, “Daddy, I saw your 12 ____ in the windowpane(玻璃窗). You were sitting perfectly13____. Why did you say…?” The father 14____, “What then would you 15____ as the cause of its fall?” “It fell by itself. The floor is uneven(不平). It wasn’t steady when Mr Li put it there.” “It won’t 16_____, girl. It sounds more 17_____ when I say I knocked it down. There are things people accept less the more you 18_____them. The truer your story is, the less true it sounds.” The daughter was 19_____ in silence for a while. Then she said, “Can you 20____ it only this way?” “Only this way,” the father said.
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小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:C
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:B
小题14:C
小题15:D
小题16:A
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:D
小题20:B
本文中的父亲通过水瓶自爆这一件事情，向女儿阐明了这样一个道理：有些事情解释得越清楚，别人听起来就越不相信。
小题1:由第10空前那句话可知，拿水瓶倒茶后进入内室的是主人(host)。
小题2:相对于host而言。第4个空格后又再现了这一信息。
小题3:突然想起了什么事情，又匆忙跑进内屋，用think of表示“想起来”。此空可以根据行文逻辑和词语搭配关系选定。
小题4:上下呼应。从下面的水瓶掉下地，打碎来推测，水瓶是放在桌子上。另前文的place it on the small table也暗示了这一点。
小题5:与主人的“离开”形成对比，客人“仍旧”坐在那儿。
小题6:通过下文得知，是水瓶爆了所发出的爆炸应用“crash”。由第8空后的sound一词也可得到启发。
小题7:look over one’s shoulder意为“回过头看”，合乎文意。
小题8:“叫”“哭”有可能发生在水瓶爆裂的时侯，不可能发生在事后，故排除C、D。惊讶时会“盯着看”，合乎常情。
小题9:因为没人碰过水瓶，所以事情有点“蹊跷”。
小题10:水瓶炸裂，流出热水，自然会冒出蒸气，故用“steaming”。A、D两个选项不太可能出现。
小题11:由第17空后的knock it down推知。
小题12:因为女儿原是向窗外看的，所以透过窗户玻璃看到的是父亲的“影像”，故用reflection。
小题13:指身体的纹丝不动用still，指没有声音用silent,指心平气和用calm，这里显然指身体的未动。straight较为片面，应舍去。
小题14:laugh（笑着说）表明了父亲的睿智。
小题15:give此处表示“给出理由”。
小题16:此处do为vi，意为“起作用”，help没有do蕴含丰富。
小题17:由行文逻辑和空格后的accept推定。
小题18:defend sth. 意为“为……而辩解”。全句意为：你越辩解，别人越不相信。
小题19:父亲讲得玄乎，女儿听得似懂非懂，be lost意为“迷茫”。
小题20:上文中父亲对水瓶爆裂原因的叙述就是一种“解释”。do和manage 也说得通，但意义较为笼统，不及explain含义准确.