He asked me （) after graduation？

family to support, so he often found himself in difficulty. He often visited Mr. White on Sundays, told him about his troubles, and asked for two or three pounds. Mr. White, a man with a kind hear(, found it difficult to refuse the money, though he himself was poor. Tom had already received more than thirty pounds from Mr. White, but he always seemed to be in need of some more.

One day, after telling Mr. White a long story of his troubles, Tom asked for five pounds.

Mr. White had heard this sort of thing before, but he listened patiently to the end. Then he said, "I understand your difficulties, Tom. I' d like to help you. But I' m not going to give you five pounds this time. I'll lend you the money, and you can pay me off next time you see me."

Tom took the money, but he never appeared again.

Tom was now in difficulties because he ______.

A．worked in a city office and was poorly paid

B．was poorly paid and had a large family to support

C．was poorly paid and always spent money carelessly

D．was out of work and had a large family to support

days she picked them up and put them away.

Six months later, she and her husband were asked to dinner. She took a pair of shoes. She hadn't worn them since they were repaired. She put one on her right foot, and then she put the other on her left. She felt something wrong. She took them off for a closer look. They were the same style, color and size, but each was for the right foot. Then she thought of the shoemaker. Though she was sure he wouldn't re member her after such a long time; she called him.

"Thank goodness, you finally called." He said excitedly. "An angry woman has' been troubling me for months."

The shoemaker finished repairing her shoes ______.

A．in a few months

B．in a few days

C．in six months

D．in one day

y happily home through the silent street. We had been to a【22】and were talking about the people we【23】and heard in it.

"The show made him a star overnight," said my friend about one of them. "He was completely【24】before. And now thousands of people send【25】gifts and letters." "I thought him quite good," I said. "But not【26】thousands of letters. As a matter of【27】one of his songs【28】me a shock. It was too【29】." "What was that？" my friend asked me. "Sing it to me." I began to sing. "Do be【30】, you'll give everybody a shock and wake them up for miles【31】, besides there will be a policeman after us." My friend gave a surprised look.

"Never mind, I won't care. What is the matter？" I said and went on【32】at the top of my voice.

Presently there came a policeman, standing in front of me, his note-book open.

"Excuse me, sir," he said, "You have a very good【33】if I may say so. Who taught you singing？ I'd very much【34】to find someone who can give my daughter singing lessons. Would you be【35】to tell me your name and address？ Then my wife and I would come to your house to discuss it."

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A．looking

B．making

C．worrying

D．going

ing some newspapers to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt didn't seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and railway-tickets, money, scraps of paper, and photographs fell out of it; but no matter how hard I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.

When my turn came, I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown-looking object, no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me a form. and told me to make a list of the chief contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me.

After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could have easily claimed the case already. This hadn't happened fortunately, for after a time I found the case lying on its side high up in a comer. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was soon satisfied that it was mine and told me I could take the case away. Again I took out my wallet: this time to pay. I pulled out ten-shilling note and the "lost" receipt slipped out with it. I couldn't help blushing and looked up at the assistant. He was nodding his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen before too!

The writer had plenty of time to spare as his train ______. ()

A．was leaving later than scheduled

B．was not leaving for another hour

C．was not scheduled to leave

D．was delayed for some reason

ve only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. I am one of those unfortunate people who have an extremely poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time, but I still manage to get lost on my way there.

When I was a teenager, I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that some miraculous (奇迹的) chance would bring me to the spot I was heading for.

A lot of people do not like to admit that they do not know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their home town very well, will give you a long list of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember; and you finally find that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I always tell them that I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid causing trouble, but even this can have unpleasant results.

I was once on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would di- rect him to the Sunlight Building. Without hesitation, I gave my usual reply, but I had only walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and search him out of the crowd behind me as I had and appointment to keep at the office with a new client and I did not want to keep him waiting. Imagine my situation when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions to my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked!

According to the passage, the sense of direction is learnt______.

A．through practice

B．by nature

C．in the childhood

D．after visiting a place repeatedly

following week.

A．on occasion

B．on purpose

C．on condition

D．only if

g trained in modern ways of fighting, and one of the things they were shown was how an unarmed man could trick an armed enemy and take his weapon away from him．First one of their two instructors took a knife away from the other, using only his bare hands; and then he took a rifle away from him in the same way．After the lesson, and before they went on to train the young soldiers to do these things themselves, the two instructors asked them a number of questions to see how well they had understood what they had been shown．One of the questions was this: “Well, you now know what an unarmed man can do against a man with a rifle．Imagine that you are guarding a bridge at night, and that you have a rifle．Suddenly you see an unarmed enemy soldier coming towards you．What will you do？” The young soldier who had to answer this question thought carefully for a few seconds before he answered, and then said, “Well, after what I have just seen, I think that the first thing I would do would be to get rid of my rifle as quickly as I could, so that the unarmed enemy couldn't take it from me and kill me with it!” The instructors were teaching the soldiers __. A．how to use weapons B．how to manage without weapons C．how to beat the enemy barehanded D．how to fight with enemy

n Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man followed her and put a gun to her head. "I was opening my door and I felt really, really afraid," she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33. He was suspected of killing three people on March 11 and later of killing a federal(联邦的)agent. The local police were searching for him. Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. "I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldnt have a mummy," she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to him from the purpose-driven life, a bestselling religious book. He asked her to repeat a paragraph about "what you thought your purpose in life was what talents were you given". And the two of them discussed this topic. Smith said, "I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust. " Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her. "He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother," she said. "And that he was lost, and that God led him to me. " She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage(报道)that the police hunt for him. "I cannot believe thats me," Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you dont, lots more people are going to get hurt. " Eventually, he let her go. Then she called the police. A US $ 60 000 reward had been posted for Nicholss capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith should get that money.

How did Smith feel when she saw a robber with her？

A．Frightened.

B．Frustrated.

C．Nervous.

D．Calm.

afternoon. It was a Range Rover with four-wheel drive. It took us three hours to get there. After we arrived at 5:15 p. m. , we fixed the tent, then made coffee and had a short rest. After that, we went hunting, using a falcon(猎鹰). We spent two hours without finding anything. On our way back to the camp, my cousin saw a rabbit. I removed the falcon's head cover and let go of the aggressive falcon. When the rabbit saw the falcon, it ran fast, but my falcon was a professional hunter. He flew up and came down to trick the rabbit. After two minutes, the rabbit was caught. We took it back to the camp to cook our dinner. We ate the delicious food, drank Arabic coffee, and sat around the fire talking until 10:30 p. m.

We left the camp the next day at 7 o'clock in the morning. We went north. However, around 10. 00 a. m., our car got stuck in the sand! We spent about three hours trying to pull out the car without any progress. Finally, we decided to walk. As it was hard for an old man or a young boy to walk more than 40 km in the desert, I decided to get help myself. I took a bottle of water with me and started to walk south alone. I knew the way well, but it was a long way in the sand. 1 walked more than four hours without stopping. When I felt so tired and thirsty, I stopped to rest. I drank all the water and slept for around two hours.

When I got up, it was dark. I continued to walk south. I was worried about my uncle and cousin. Suddenly, I met a Bedouin man who was riding his camel. He took me to his house. When I had had enough rest, I asked him to take me to the road where I found a car. It took me to the city to get help. I had one day to get back to my uncle and cousin. When I got back to them, they were so happy because I had gotten help and they were able to see me again.

Which word can best describe the first evening of their hunting trip？

A．Disappointed

B．Enjoyable.

C．Comfortable.

D．Exhausted

port to tell me that he had arrived.I was still at the office at the time, but I had made arrangements for his arrival.After explaining where my new flat was, I told him that I had left the key under a stone near the door.As I was likely to be at home rather later, I advised him to go into the kitchen and help himself to food and drink.

Two hours later, my friend telephoned me from the flat.At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of my re- cords after having just had a truly wonderful meal.He had found a pan on the gas stove and fried two eggs and had helped himself to some cold chicken from the refrigerator.Now he said, he was drinking a glass of orange juice and he hoped I would join him.I asked him if he had reached the flat without difficulty, he answered that he had not been able to find the key under the stone, but fortunately the living-room window just by the apple tree had been open and he had climbed in.I listened to all this in astonishment.There is no apple tree in front of my living room, but there is one in front of my neighbor's.

1.When his friend arrived from abroad the writer was______ .

A . at the airport

B . at home

C . still at the office

D . on his way home

2.As the writer was busy and couldn't go home on time, he asked his friend ().

A.to cook something for him

B.to have a meal and drink himself

C.to wait for him to have dinner together

D.to go into the kitchen and cook first

3 .Two hours later, the writer () .

A.got home and met his friend

B.was listening to some records

C.rang up his friend

D.got a phone call from his friend

4.Knowing his friend's arrival, the writer had ().

A.left the living room window open

B.asked his neighbor to receive his friend

C.managed to go home later than usual

D.hid the key for him somewhere near the door

5.The writer was surprised to find that his friend had () .

A.entered his neighbor' s house by mistake

B.entered his living room by climbing the apple tree

C.entered his house through a neighbor' s window

D.got into the living room with a neighbor' s key

fe. Each time I thought of that, I felt very sad. When the final day came, I ran to a corner and sat alone, trying not to let others see my tears. Suddenly I felt a hand patting me on the shoulder. I looked up, and saw my grandpa. "It isn't easy, is it, my grandson？" he said in a very low voice, sitting down beside me. I nodded through my tears, without a word. We sat silently for a long time. Then he said, "Good-by is such a sad word that it seems too cold for us to use. We must try to avoid it."

Then we walked slowly in the garden, hand in hand, to have a last look at each rock, each tree, each flower. We sat for a while by the small pond which was a favorite place of my grandpa's. "What do you see here, Tommy？" asked the old man. I looked at the water, not knowing what to say, and then replied, "I see something soft and beautiful, Grandpa." He pulled me close to him and said, "It isn't the pond or the trees or the flowers that are beautiful. It is the special place in your heart that makes you feel so." After a while, he continued, "I built the pond, and planted the trees and the flowers a long time ago. I started to build this beautiful home the day my only son was born." He stopped. After a long silence, he murmured(低声说), "One day a terrible war came, and my son, like many other people's sons, went away to fight. Five months later, a telegram came, telling us that my son had passed away...' he couldn't finish his sentence. I saw tears trickle from his eyes. "That afternoon I picked some roses from this place and put them in front of son's portrait (肖像), and said goodbye to him. You know who he was, Tommy？"

"My father？" I asked in a whisper, hoping my grandpa would say no. But he said, "That's rights my dear. ' Ann in arm, we cried. Then the old man held me ups and said softly, "My dear Tom, we axe going to move, but don't say good-bye to our old house, never."

Tom and his grandpa______ the old house.

A．were too sorry to leave

B．were both unwilling to say goodbye to

C．felt sorry when they were in

D．didn't know that they had to leave