One day a mime(哑剧演员)is visiting the zoo an

题目内容：

One day a mime(哑剧演员)is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd，a zookeeper drags him into his office．The zookeeper explains that the zoo's most popular attraction，a gorilla(大猩猩)，has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance（出席人数） at the zoo will fall off．He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts．

The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes．He soon discovers he can sleep all he wants，play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime—the job he likes but loses．

However, with days going by，he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his．Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage，crawls across a partition(隔墙)，and dangles(悬挂)from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd．

At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction—Well，this continues for some time．The crowds grow larger，and the mime’s pay keeps going up.

Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls．The mime is terrified. He starts screaming， “Help me!”，but the lion is quick．The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut

up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”

小题1:The mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer because______________·

A．he has been out of work

B．he doesn’t like being a mime

C．he likes performing at the zoo

D．he is offered a higher pay there小题2:How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?

A．Hard and tiring．

B．Dangerous.

C．Easy and funny．

D．Boring.小题3:The mime’s first contact with the lion is to_________·

A．find pleasure for himself

B．get the lion’s attention

C．get his pay raised

D．win back his audience小题4:The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.

A. frightening B common

C．exciting D. familiar

最佳答案：

小题1:A

小题2:C

小题3:D

小题4:C

答案解析：

略

考点核心：

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