For most of the day construction worker Sidney Smith and his brother – in – law Joseph Chambers had been
21 along the banks of Lake Waco with little
22 . Chambers suggested they go home, but Smith
33 that there were still several hours of daylight
24 and there was one other place they might try a bit longer before
25 .
Smith drove his pickup（小货车）a couple of miles along the
26 road to get to the other side of the lake. This road, in the truest sense, was a path wagging in the heavy
27 area. Even with the sun still high in the cloudless sky, the
28 of trees formed a leafy
29 over the road and it suddenly seemed
30 in the evening.
“A guy could get lost and nobody would ever find him,” said Chambers.
Smith smiled, “We’re
31 there.” He said. A few seconds later, the smile was
32 from his face.
“What the hell is that?”
He braked to a stop. Less than twenty feet away was what appeared to be a
33 .
For several minutes the two men sat in the pickup
34 to decide whether they had happened to
35 someone’s bad practical joke or something far more serious. Smith with his brother-in-law got out of the pickup and
36 walked towards that thing some distance before them.
It was a young man who was already dead. They had got to tell
37 . Back into the pickup, Smith backed the pickup down the road
38 he could turn around, then
39 back. With the dead young man still on his mind, Smith felt as if he was going to be sick. God, how he
40 they had given up fishing and gone home early.
| 小题1: | | A．playing | B．boating | C．fishing | D．walking |
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| 小题2: | | A．failure | B．success | C．disappointment | D．interest |
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| 小题3: | | A．quarreled | B．argued | C．reasoned | D．shouted |
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| 小题4: | | A．remaining | B．staying | C．keeping | D．leaving |
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| 小题5: | | A．starting off | B．running out | C．sending away | D．giving up |
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| 小题6: | | A．winding | B．widening | C．leading | D．blocking |
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| 小题7: | | A．grassed | B．wooded | C．iced | D．snowed |
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| 小题8: | | A．trunks | B．shadow | C．shade | D．shape |
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| 小题9: | | A．hat | B．umbrella | C．sheet | D．overcoat |
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| 小题10: | | A．foggy | B．late | C．early | D．rainy |
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| 小题11: | | A．almost | B．already | C．only | D．fairly |
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| 小题12: | | A．escaped | B．lost | C．gone | D．missed |
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| 小题13: | | A．body | B．trap | C．pile | D．stream |
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| 小题14: | | A．talking | B．hoping | C．wanting | D．trying |
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| 小题15: | | A．come across | B．turn out | C．bring about | D．make up |
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| 小题16: | | A．loudly | B．quietly | C．quickly | D．slowly |
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| 小题17: | | A．everybody | B．somebody | C．anybody | D．nobody |
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| 小题18: | | A．until | B．before | C．after | D．when |
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| 小题19: | | A．turned | B．ran | C．headed | D．walked |
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| 小题20: | | A．expected | B．hoped | C．wished | D．prayed |
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