专四专八考试

【单选题】He is waiting at the airline ticket counter when he first notices the young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her head—the man imagines it loosed and cascading to her small back— and carries over her shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather. He struggles to see her face—she is ahead of him in line—but it is not until she has bought her ticket and turns to walk away that he realizes her beauty, which is pale and dark-eyed and full-mouthed, and which quickens his heart beat. ^① She seems aware that he is staring at her and lowers her gaze abruptly.
The airline clerk interrupts. The man gives up looking at the woman—he thinks she may be about twenty- five—and buys a round-trip, coach class ticket to an eastern city. His flight leaves in an hour. To kill time, the man steps into one of the airport cocktail bars and orders a scotch and water. While he sips it he watches the flow of travelers through the terminal—including a remarkable number, he thinks, of unattached pretty women dressed in fashion magazine clothes—until he catches sight of the black-haired girl in the leather coat. She is standing near a TravelersAid counter, deep in conversation with a second girl, a blond in a cloth coat trimmed with gray fur. He wants somehow to attract the brunette’s attention, to invite her to have a drink with him before her own flight leaves for wherever she is traveling, but even though he believes for a moment she is looking his way he cannot catch her eye from out of the shadows of the bar. ^② In another instant the two women separate; neither of their direction is toward him. He orders a second scotch and water.
When next he sees her, he is buying a magazine to read during the flight and becomes aware that someone is jostling him.At first he is startled that anyone would be so close as to touch him, but when he sees who it is he musters a smile. "Busy place," he says. She looks up at him—is she blushing —and an odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes. She moves away from him and joins the crowds in the terminal.
The man is at the counter with his magazine, but when he reaches into his back pocket for his wallet the pocket is empty. Where could I have lost it He thinks. His mind begins enumerating the credit cards, the currency, the membership and identification cards; his stomach churns with something very like fear. The girl who was so near to me, he thinks—and all at once he understands that she has picked his pocket.
What does "sips" in Paragraph Two probably meanA．To drink in small mouthfuls.
B．To drink in a gracious manner.
C．To drink hastily and quickly.
D．To drink casually but politely.

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
语义题。由sips定位至第二段。第四句指出他到酒吧的目的：消磨时间。scotch意为“苏格兰威士忌”，它是一种比较烈性的酒，因此小口啜饮符合一般的饮酒习惯，此外，为了消磨时间也应该一小口、一小口地慢慢喝，故[A]为答案。男士只是一个人在酒吧里消磨时间，文中没有提到他举止如何，[B]元依据，排除；[C]中的hastily and quickly与kill time这个目的矛盾，排除；同理，独自一人饮酒谈不上礼貌不礼貌，排除[D]。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>