A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,
21 my teacher said again and again that it was important.
One day, I happened to
__ 22 _ an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to
__23 .As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was
24 ___ , I thought, perhaps this is not a
__ 25 __ topic.Well, I’d
__ 26 change the topic.So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?
_27 _ the way, have you ever
__28__ there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will
__29 __ me if I leave China without seeing
__30 .It was great.” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of
31 .” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “
__ 32 !” I couldn’t
_33 __ asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do
__34__ ”, he answered, gently surprised.
I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”
Hearing this, the Englishman
_ 35__ to tears.He began to
__ 36___ ,“‘You don’t say actually means ‘really?’.It is an
_37__ of surprise.Perhaps you don’t pay attention
__38___ English idioms.”
Then I knew I had made a fool of
__39__ .Since then I have been more
___50__ with idioms.
小题2: | A.look | B.meet | C.pick up | D.find out |
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小题3: | A.walk | B.talk | C.play | D.go |
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小题4: | A.pleased | B.angry | C.afraid | D.surprised |
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小题5: | A.proper | B.strange | C.safe | D.polite |
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小题6: | A.to | B.better | C.not | D.like |
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小题8: | A.gone | B.visited | C.seen | D.been |
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小题9: | A.look at | B.think of | C.send for | D.laugh at |
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小题10: | A.it | B.them | C.anything | D.something |
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小题11: | A.interesting | B.interest | C.interests | D.interested |
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小题12: | A.Really | B.Good | C.You don’ t say | D.You are right |
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小题14: | A.this | B.so | C.anything | D.me a favor |
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小题15: | A.laughed | B.cried | C.moved | D.came |
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小题16: | A.explain | B.shout | C.prove | D.say |
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小题17: | A.experience | B.expression | C.explanation | D.example |
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小题19: | A.me | B.myself | C.him | D.himself |
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小题20: | A.helpful | B.popular | C.careful | D.satisfied |
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