A couple of months ago, I went to a department store to buy a few things for the house. I needed a set of curtains for the living room, two table lamps, a rug and several (36) ______ . I asked them to deliver the things as soon as possible, but they said that they were (37) ______ to send them out until 20 days later. After about 3 weeks, I (38) ______ only the curtains and lamps. I was a little disappointed when I didn't receive all the (39) ______ I had bought. But nevertheless, I was eager to see what the curtains and lamps looked like. I first opened the (40) ______ with the curtains. I had bought a lovely (41) ______ blue, and instead they had sent me a horrible dark purple. Well, you can just (42) ______ how angry I was. Then I opened the boxes with the lamps. They were exactly what I'd (43) ______ . But one of the lamp shapes was damaged. (44) _______________________________________________ . They promised to come and (45) _______________________________________________________ . It has been two weeks since my complaint. (46) ____________________________________________________________ .

答案解析：

36. 答案：cushions

解析：根据前面的several可知此处需要复数名词，因此不要忘记在cushion后面加s。

37. 答案：unable

解析：根据前面的but可知此处需要表示否定意义的词，且能与were和to搭配构成短语结构。

38. 答案：received

解析：此处需要谓语动词，要用过去时，注意单词中间的拼写eiv。

39. 答案：items

解析：此词较简单，但是需要复数形式——这一点根据all可以预知。

40. 答案：package

解析：此处需要名词作open的宾语。

41. 答案：light

解析：此处需要形容词修饰blue。此词较简单，但不要写成night。

42. 答案：imagine

解析：根据can可知此处需要动词原形作谓语。同样，此词不难，但不可漏掉词尾e，也不要错写成image。

43. 答案：ordered

解析：根据上下文，前面的'd是had的缩写，而非would的缩写，助动词have, has, had之后一定要用动词的过去分词，这是高频考点。

44. 标准答案：The next thing I did was to telephone them to complain

听音关键：next thing, telephone, complain

答案重构：The next thing I did was to phone/call them to complain

画龙点睛：不定式作表语，此处不可省略to。注意时态以及complain的拼写。

45. 标准答案：pick them up immediately and also to replace them with the correct order

听音关键：pick, immediately, replace, correct order

答案重构：get them back at once and to replace them with the correct items

画龙点睛：注意短语replace...with以及immediately的拼写，如果没把握，immediately可以换成at once。

46. 标准答案：They have neither picked up the wrong items nor sent me the rest of my order

听音关键：neither, wrong items, nor, rest, order

答案重构：1) They haven't picked up the wrong items or sent me the rest of my order

2) They haven't picked up the wrong items, nor have they sent me the rest of my order

画龙点睛：此题注意neither...nor结构中的两个动词的过去分词。改写时要注意两个动词的否定。