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People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many meanings using the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice.

For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest (抗議) and say “Do not bad mouth me.”

Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret(后悔) because it hurts that person’s feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say, “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.

Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say, “You took the words right out of my mouth!”

Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”.

This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives “from hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.

1.“I really put my foot in my mouth this time” means _________.

A. I regretted I had done the thing B. I really did this

C. I have never done this thing D. I want to do this thing

2.When your friend took the words right out of your mouth, you can say “_________”.

A. You are clever B. I am very lucky

C. We have the same ideaD. I am very angry

3.If a person lives from hand to mouth, he must be very _________.

A. richB. poorC. happyD. sad

4.The passage mainly tells us _________.

A. everyone in England has the same mouth

B. people use their mouths to eat, talk, shout and sing

C. rich persons’ mouths are quite different with the poor persons’

D. the word “mouth” has many different meanings in the English language

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文給我們講述的是英語單詞mouth，嘴。它有很多意思，用在不同的表達(dá)和情景中。作者給我們總結(jié)了一些這樣的表達(dá)，并舉例告訴我們這些表達(dá)的意思。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第三段中Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret(后悔) because it hurts that person’s feelings. The speaker might say, “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.”可知，put my foot in my mouth這個(gè)短語的意思是對(duì)自己做過的事情感到后悔。故選A。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第四段中Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say.可知，有時(shí)候別人說的話正是你想說的，這個(gè)時(shí)候你就可以說“You took the words right out of my mouth!”，即你們有相同的想法。故選C。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文最后一段This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives “from hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.可知，如果有人的生活是from hand to mouth，那意思就是他生活得很貧窮，故選B。

4.主旨大意題。這篇短文中作者告訴了我們一些跟mouth這個(gè)詞有關(guān)的表達(dá)，并且給我們舉了很多例子，讓我們知道這些表達(dá)具體應(yīng)該怎么用。故D mouth這個(gè)單詞在英語中有很多意思，這個(gè)選項(xiàng)最符合文意，故選D。

考點(diǎn)：教育類短文閱讀。