单项选择题

Silas Minton’s funeral was a quiet (37) . It was (38) by the only (39) he had in the world, his niece and nephew, and by a few friends. The priest who (40) (41) a hundred miles into this wild part of the county was now getting (42) for the simple ceremony. Minton, (43) "Minty" as his friends (44) call him, (45) a hard life (46) for gold in a lonely part of Western Australia. He had always refused to work in a gold mine (47) he believed that he could do better (48) his own. Although he was not a boastful(夸口的)person, he had often declared that one day he (49) find a lump (块) of gold as big as his head and (50) he would retire and live in (51) for the rest of his life. But his dreams of great wealth (52) came true. For many years he had hardly earned enough money to keep himself (53) .
Two men now gently lifted the rough wooden box that (54) Minty’s body, but they almost dropped it when they heard a loud cry from the grave-digger. His spade (铁锹)had struck something hard in the rocky soil and he was shouting excitedly. Then he held up a large stone. (55) it was covered (56) dirt, the stone shone curiously in the fierce sunlight: it was unmistakably a heavy piece of solid gold!

A. relation
B. relations
C. relationship
D. relationships
热门 试题

单项选择题
The underlined word redeem (Line 6, Para. 1) probably means ______. [A] show one’s skills and bravery [B] make up for a mistake made before [C] protect someone from being killed [D] test one’s ability through a task
After his Oscar success as an aging cowboy in Unforgotten, Clint Eastwood plays an aging secret-service man in this action movie. He is Frank Horrigan, a devoted citizen who has strong love for his country and who believes that he was responsible for the death of John F. Kennedy in 1963. When a madman, played by John Malkovich, says that he will kill the present President, Horrigan is given the chance to redeem himself.
Sleepless in SeattleA very interesting film from Nora Ephron, the writer-director of When Harry Met Sally. One Christmas, a little boy, who has just lost his mother, calls a national radio station to find a new wife for his dad, played by Tom Hanks. When a radio-reporter hears the program, she is sure that she has found the man of her dream and spends the rest of the film in an eager search for him.
The Firm
Tom Cruise plays a young lawyer, Mitch McDeere, who finds out that several members of his new law firm have died. When an FBI man finds out that the firm is run by the Mafia(黑手党), Mitch is offered a job as an undercover agent(便衣特工), who will pretend to work for one side while working for another, However, he refuses and thinks up a way neither to follow the FBI nor the Mafia. This is Tom Cruise acting the part he knows best--The Great American Individual.