杭州市2014高考英语冲刺阅读理解选练（四）及答案.docVIP

杭州市2014高考英语冲刺阅读理解选练（4）及答案 高考英语冲刺阅读理解专项My cat Posy, a tortoiseshell tabby, lives with my family in a house in London, England. Like most cats, Posy is never pleased to see another cat on her territory—or anywhere, for that matter. Whenever she encounters a cat-like fellow, her hair stands on end, and she begins to hiss. In extreme cases, she sets up a yowling that warns the whole neighborhood. Though she may be a proud defender of her territory, there is a reason why my dad has always referred to her as “a cat of very little brain”. One day my mum came home with a purchase she was delighted with—a large tea cozy in the shape of a cat, with all the cat features, from ears to tail, drawn in. Naturally, when teatime rolled around the next afternoon, out came the new tea cozy to keep the pot warm. It received a lot of admiration from the rest of the family because it had the look of a real cat. This cat looked almost like a king sitting there, guarding the pot, with a half-smile on his cloth face. Suddenly, a slight sound emerged over the clink of teaspoons on china— a slow, steady hiss. I turned around to see Posy behind me in the kitchen doorway, hair standing on end, ears laid back, staring straight at the tea cozy. The tea cozy stared back. Posy edged nearer with suspicion, as her eyes narrowed, while she sent out more hissing sounds as she sized up her rival—a rival who’d not only managed to get INTO her house but was now ON her table. And here was the family doing nothing about it. Needless to say, we had almost fallen off our chairs laughing by this time—we couldn’t believe she actually thought the tea cozy was a real cat! Luckily, Posy stopped short of jumping on the unexpected rival. Eventually we took pity on her, lifted the cozy off the pot and finally convinced her that, the presence of this particular cat on her territory was no good reason to cause fur to fly. 1. Posy begins to hiss ______. A. whenever she sees a tortoise on her territory B. whenever she se