| ( )1. A. does ( )2. A. gets on ( )3. A. a second ( )4. A. call ( )5. A. different ( )6. A. lighter ( )7. A. for the moment ( )8. A. However ( )9. A. up ( )10. A. held | B. didn"t B. depends on B. an hour B. borrow B. less B. more comfortable B. for a moment B. Whatever B. on B. worked | C. do C. carries on C. a week C. buy C. same C. happier C. all the time C. Whichever C. out C. rested | D. doesn"t D. puts on D. a month D. drive D. more D. heavier D. from time to time D. Whenever D. down D. stood |
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| At three a.m., Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail train. The train was made up of 13 cars. At the end of the train, 71 mailmen sat sorting the mail. Inside the second car, there were only five mailmen and 128 bags full of five-pound notes. This train had run more than 100 years without being robbed. At three minutes past three, Mills and his helper, David Whit by, saw a yellow warning light. They slowed the train, and then stopped. Whit by went to the telephone beside the track. It was out of order. Then he saw a man moving between the second and the third car. Before Whit by could give a warning, he was knocked down by two men. Mills" cars with all the mailmen had been disconnected by the robbers. At the bridge, the bags of money were unloaded from the train and thrown into waiting trucks. One of the robbers who obviously knew the schedules (时刻表) of all the trains kept looking at his watch. At 3:45, he said,"That will have to be enough." The robbers drove away with more than 2,500,000 pounds. | |||
| 1. The robbery took place ______. | |||
| A. before 3:03 B. in the early morning C. after three o"clock in the afternoon D. after 3:45 | |||
| 2. The robbers ______ before the train stopped. | |||
| A. were all in the train B. forced Mills to stop the train C. were waiting for the train to stop D. ordered Mills to go on driving | |||
| 3. Why didn"t the other mailmen help the mailmen in the second car when the robbery happened? | |||
| A. Because they were busy sorting the mail. B. Because they didn"t want to help the mailmen in the second car. C. Because the last eleven cars were separated from the front cars. D. Because they knew nothing about the robbery. | |||
| 4. One of the robbers kept looking at his watch because ______. | |||
| A. he only wanted to know the exact time B. he enjoyed looking at his watch C. he didn"t know when another train would come D. they had to leave before another train came | |||
| 5. Which of the following is NOT true? | |||
| A. The train was out of order. B. The telephone was put out of order by the robbers. C. Mills and Whit by were both train drivers. D. The robbers carried the money away by truck. | |||
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| My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said, "How would you like to go to Eton?" "You bet," I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class; our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed (尴尬的) driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100. This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding (寄宿制的) school idea was to be dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict (冲突) with his fear of drawing attention to himself. He seemed to have talked to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow, and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remembered my eyes stinging (刺痛) and my hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness. "Oh, he doesn"t want to go away," said my mother, "You shouldn"t go on like this." "It"s up to him," said my father."He can make up his own mind." | |||
| 1. The writer"s house was ________. | |||
| A. the best in the local area B. right for their social position C. for showing off D. rather small | |||
| 2. His father sold his Rolls-Royce because ________. | |||
| A. it made him feel uneasy B. it was too old to work well C. it was too expensive to possess D. it was too cheap | |||
| 3. The writer"s father enjoyed being different as long as ________. | |||
| A. it drew attention to him B. it didn"t bring him in arguments C. it was understood as a joke D. there was no danger of his showing off | |||
| 4. What was the writer"s reaction (反应) to the idea of going to Eton? | |||
| A. He was very unhappy. B. He didn"t believe it. C. He was delighted. D. He had mixed feelings. | |||
| 5. We can know from the passage that ________. | |||
| A. Children who can go to Eton are very famous B. Children can go to Eton if they will C. It is very difficult for a child to get admitted by Eton D. Children don"t have the right to decide whether they will go to Eton at all | |||
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| Mrs Smith is thirty-eight. She has two 1 . She looks very smart with fair hair and always tries to keep thin. She hopes 2 young and never eats 3 meat. She doesn"t want others to know how 4 she is. Mrs Smith works in an office next to her home. It was raining heavily one morning. The head of 5 office went out to join a meeting. The woman had 6 to do. So she began to talk with Mr Zhang about her birthday party. Mr Zhang is an old man 7 glasses. He works in the same office. "My family bought me a fresh cake," said the woman, "It smelled very 8 ! And I put nineteen candles on it- one for a year!" "Really?" asked Mr Zhang. He 9 very surprised. "How did you burn (点着) 10 of the ends (两端) at the same time?" | |||