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九年级英语名著阅读专练
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
一、完形填空
‘That Tom is going to make a lot of trouble. He kept putting cotton into Martha’s sack,’ Sambo told Legree that night.
‘ Then we’ll have to teach him a_____1_____,’ said Legree.
Slowly the tired slaves came into the room for the weighing of the sacks. ____2___Legree weighed Tom’s sack, and it was enough. Martha’s sack was next. The weight was enough, _____3___ Legree shouted at her.
‘You lazy animal! This is not enough! Stay here and wait.’ He finished weighing all ___4_____sacks, and then turned to Tom.
‘Come here,’ said Legree, ‘I want to give you a better job than____5____ cotton, and you can start tonight: take this woman and whip her – you know____6_____.’
‘I’m sorry, Master,’ said Tom. ‘I can’t do it.’ Legree whipped Tom across his face and then hit him ____7_____his fists many times.
‘There!’ he said. ‘Now will you tell me you _____8_____ do it?’
‘Yes, Master,’ said Tom, with___9______ running down his face.
‘I will work night and day, but I will never whip another person.’
‘I bought you, and you’re mine, body and ______10_____,’ he said, kicking Tom.
‘My soul isn’t yours, Master! You can’t buy it!’
‘We’ll see,’ said Legree; ‘Sambo, Quimbo, give this dog a lesson.’
It was late at night, and Tom lay bleeding____11_____, among pieces of broken machinery. He heard some___12______.
‘Who’s there? Please, give me some water!’
______13___ was Cassy. She helped him drink and then she cleaned his wounds and put something soft ___14___ his head. Tom felt better.
‘Now,’ said the woman, ‘that’s the best I can do for you. You don’t know ___15_____about this plantation. I do. I arrived here five years ago. There’s no law here. We are ten miles from any other plantations. No one will know if Legree burns you alive or cuts you to pieces.
1.A. knowledge B. lesson C. class D. thing
2.A. Then B. After C. First D. Next
3.A. and B. or C. although D. but
4.A.an