A. by
B.on
C. up
D. with
参考答案：B
本题详解： 黑猩猩弄来盒子是为了增加高度，所以她应站在箱子之上，即填介词 on。
13、
A.straight
B.strong
C. long
D. big
参考答案：C
本题详解： 站在箱子上，高度仍不够，故又弄来一根 pole(竿)。根据常识，在此情况下，这 pole 的特征应是 long。
14、
A.wall
B.. box
C. ceiling
D. pole
参考答案：B
本题详解： 根据上文可知。
15、
A.knocked
B.picked
C. took
D.shocked
参考答案：A
本题详解： 根据常识和语境，黑猩猩此时应是用竿 knock 食物。
16、
A. lives
B.acts
C.thinks
D.plays
参考答案：A
本题详解： 从本段后面内容可知，这只黑猩猩是像人一样在“生活”(live)。
17、
A.task
B. lesson
C.day
D. time
参考答案：C
本题详解： 根据下文语境用排除法可推知答案。
18、
A.. Here
B.There
C.So
D. Then
参考答案：B
本题详解： 根据上文可知这里的 there 指“在家里”。
19、
A.quite
B.already
C. even
D. still
参考答案：C
本题详解： 对于黑猩猩来说，enjoys watching television before going to bed 显然比 play with toys 更不常见，故用even(甚至)强调后者。
20、
A.observe
B. discover
C. gain
D.learn
参考答案：D
本题详解：learn 的意思是“了解”，即指通过研究黑猩猩来“了解”人类自己。
三、阅读理解(40 points)
A
My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $ 1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks. It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More important, I earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work. I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have. When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle. The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field ― except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
1、 The writer’s first job was _______.
A. to stand down the fairway at a golf course
B.to watch over the sugar-cane plantation
C.to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields
D.to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them
参考答案：C
本题详解：语义理解题。第 1 段第 2 句话My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields 和题干几乎完全相同。
2、The word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means _______.
A. difficult
B.boring
C.interesting
D.unusual
参考答案：B
本题详解： 词义猜测题。从第 2 段第 2 句话中的I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could 可以推知 tedious 的正确词义。