136 Crestview Circle
Dover, Connecticut
January 16, 1995
Gander’s Furniture Store
Stamford, Connecticut, 09876
Dear Sir,
I am writing about your January bill, which I am returning with this letter. I am not going to pay this bill. Last month I bought a table and four chairs for $65.50. They were sent to me on December 18. That night one leg of the table broke while my wife was putting our dinner on it. It fell on one of the chair, and that broke, too. Our $ 2.50 steak(牛排) landed on the floor, and the dog ate it.
I spoke to the salesmen who had sold me the table and the chairs. He told me to write you a letter. I wrote you on December 20, saying that I was not going to pay for the furniture. On December 21 some men came and took it back to the store.
Please do something about your records. I do not want to receive another bill for the furniture which I returned.
Yours truly
Alberts Robbins
小题1:From the letter we can know that Mr. Robbins had actually paid _____ for the table and the four chairs. | A．$ 65.50 | B．$ 68.00 | C．$ 2.50 | D．no money |
小题2: Why do you think Mr. Robbins write the letter to the furniture store? | A．He had paid for the furniture but was asked to pay again. | | B．He didn’t want to receive a second bill for the furniture he had returned. | | C．The furniture he bought was badly made and he wanted to return it. | | D．He wanted the manager to scold the salesmen for the bad furniture. |
小题3:Try to guess how Mr. Robins felt when he was writing the letter.| A．He was angry. | B．He was sad. | C．He was anxious. | D．He was friendly. |
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小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:A |
小题1:D 细节题，从信中的句子：I am not going to pay this bill.说明还没付钱。
小题1:B 细节题：信的最后一句话I do not want to receive another bill for the furniture which I returned. 说明他是不想再收到账单。
小题1:A 推理题：从文章的句子：It fell on one of the chair, and that broke, too. Our $ 2.50 steak(牛排) landed on the floor, and the dog ate it. 看出家里一定是一团糟，一定很生气。选A。 |
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The telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California , USA.
“Police station? A train for Santa Fe hit a truck at the McDonald Street Crossing. Please ____21____ there at once. With an ambulance, too. A man is badly ____22_____.” said an anxious voice of a young woman. “ And you know I am the ….”
“Please wait! Hi! Hi!” the policeman kept on ____23____ though the line was cut off. Within a minute , a police car and an ambulance car started off. Before long they got to the crossing, but they ___24____everything was fine. No accident, no wounded man.
“What a dirty trick!” said the policeman ____25____. “ We must find out that bad___26_____ and …..”They were just talking about the _____27___when they heard the whistle of a train which was nearing them quickly. All of a sudden, a truck appeared. It came ___28_____towards them, too. When the truck was passing the crossing, it suddenly ____29___ to move on. Right then and there, before the eyes of all the policemen __30_______, the train hit the truck heavily and ___31____it dozens of meters away.
When Randolph Bruce, the driver, was ___32_____ out of the damaged truck, he was seriously wounded just as the young woman had told on the phone. As he was taken to the ___33______ in time, his life was saved
Later the police did whatever they could to _____34___the woman who had telephoned them. It turned out that the woman was a very excellent police officer working far in the neighboring state, who had got the first-hand ____35_____ of this crime as described above.
| 小题2: | | A．beaten | B．treated | C．needed | D．injured |
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| 小题3: | | A．talking | B．laughing | C．crying | D．shouting |
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| 小题4: | | A．realized | B．found | C．proved | D．wondered |
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| 小题5: | | A．nervously | B． Disappointedly | C．angrily | D．surprisingly |
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| 小题6: | | A．man | B．woman | C．child | D．driver |
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| 小题7: | | A．trial | B．warning | C．program | D．punishment |
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| 小题8: | | A．passing | B．turning | C．running | D．rolling |
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| 小题9: | | A．refused | B．stopped | C．continued | D．began |
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| 小题10: | | A．above | B．below | C．alive | D．present |
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| 小题11: | | A．struck | B．met | C．caught | D．missed |
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| 小题12: | | A．pushed | B．helped | C．let | D．asked |
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| 小题13: | | A．company | B．house | C．station | D．hospital |
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| 小题14: | | A．meet | B．punish | C．find | D．arrest |
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| 小题15: | | A．information | B．result | C．advice | D．news |
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When someone takes shoes to a shop to be mended, he is given a ticket with a number on it. Then, 21 his shoes are ready, he goes back to the shop, gives the ticket to the shoemaker, gets his shoes and 22 for them.
One day Mrs. Smith gave her husband a 23 of her shoes which needed mending and asked him to 24 them to the shop. Mr. Smith did so, and put the 25 for them in his pocket.
He went back four days 26 to get the shoes, 27 when he went into the shop, he was not able to find his ticket 28 ,and the shoemaker did not want to give him the 29 until he got the ticket.
“How do I know that the shoes are 30 unless you give me the ticket?” he said. “If I give them to you now, somebody 31 may come into my shop with the ticket tomorrow, and then I shall not be able to give him the shoes.”
Mrs. Smith needed the shoes very much, so her husband 32 for a moment and then went out to his 33 , which was at the side of the road 34 the shop. He 35 the door, and whistled（耳语）to his wife’s small 36 , which was sitting on the back seat. Then he went back into the shop and 37 it, “Get the shoes!” The dog began to 38 around the shop, and soon it found Mrs. Smith’s shoes and brought them to Mr. Smith one after the 39 .
“That should prove（证明）that they are my wife’s.” Mr. Smith said.
The shoemaker 40 and then he gave the shoes to Mr. Smith.
| 小题1: | | A．before | B．when | C．since | D．unless |
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| 小题2: | | A．cares | B．looks | C．pays | D．waits |
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| 小题4: | | A．show | B．change | C．lead | D．take |
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| 小题5: | | A．bill | B．paper | C．ticket | D．list |
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| 小题8: | | A．everywhere | B．anywhere | C．nowhere | D．somewhere |
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| 小题9: | | A．return | B．idea | C．shoes | D．answer |
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| 小题10: | | A．what | B．whose | C．where | D．yours |
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| 小题12: | | A．worried | B．cried | C．thought | D．hoped |
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| 小题14: | | A．inside | B．outside | C．up | D．round |
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| 小题15: | | A．opened | B．closed | C．broke | D．built |
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| 小题17: | | A．said to | B．replied | C．answered | D．talked |
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| 小题18: | | A．hear | B．taste | C．smell | D．see |
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| 小题20: | | A．surprised | B．frightened | C．cried out | D．laughed |
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Dad loved children. And he always wanted a __1__ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.
Once, Dad __2__ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, "And this is our _3__ model, complete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all; we are _4__ the 1953 model some time next month."
But what he _5__ most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _6_ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not __7_ Mum and Dad. _8__, Dad called out over his shoulder, "You 9__ the second baby up from the front here, Mister."
Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the _10_. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _11_. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _12__ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _13_. When he pointed at the child that had been __14__, Mum looked at him calmly and said, "That’s not one of ours, dear. He _15_ next door."
| 小题1: | | A．rich | B．lovely | C．close | D．large |
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| 小题2: | | A．surprisingly | B．nervously | C．kindly | D．proudly |
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| 小题3: | | A．dearest | B．smallest | C．latest | D．youngest |
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| 小题4: | | A．ordering | B．selling | C．expecting | D．improving |
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| 小题5: | | A．hated | B．enjoyed | C．cared | D．hoped |
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| 小题6: | | A．crazily | B．excitedly | C．curiously | D．directly |
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| 小题7: | | A．counting | B．naming | C．showing | D．reaching |
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| 小题8: | | A．Immediately | B．Carefully | C．Angrily | D．Easily |
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| 小题9: | | A．saw | B．missed | C．forgot | D．left |
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| 小题10: | | A．truth | B．story | C．adventure | D．accident |
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| 小题11: | | A．lecture | B．house | C．office | D．activity |
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| 小题12: | | A．even if | B．apart from | C．so that | D．except that |
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| 小题13: | | A．troublesome | B．careless | C．active | D．quiet |
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| 小题14: | | A．found | B．caught | C．punished | D．wounded |
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| 小题15: | | A．goes to | B．belongs to | C．works | D．plays |
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I am Ali. I have always believed in myself. My parents taught me to be 41 and that I could be the best at anything. I 42 challenging my neighbourhood boys to see who could jump the highest and run the fastest. Of course I knew when I made the challenge, I would win. I never even 43 losing.
I started my boxing 44 when I was 12. In high school I boasted (自夸) that one day I was 45 to be the champion of the world. As part of my training, I would run down the street. I would rush in and out of shops to 46 them I was training for the Olympics and I was going to 47 a gold medal. I never thought of failing but only glory(光荣) I was going to 48 when I won. When I said I was going to be the "Greatest of All Time", I 49 myself. And I still do.
But I didn’t know that my will would be 50 when I retired. In 1996, I was asked to 51 the cauldron(圣火) at the summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
When the 52 came for me to set fire to the cauldron, I realized I had the eyes of the world on me. Then I heard an extremely loud 53 . I was reminded of my 1960 Olympic 54 in Rome, when I won the gold medal. I remembered those 36 years between Rome and Atlanta and 55 that I had come full circle. Nothing in life has defeated me. I am still "The Greatest."
| 小题1: | | A．brave | B．confident | C．honest | D．polite |
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| 小题2: | | A．excuse | B．avoid | C．remember | D．suggest |
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| 小题3: | | A．gave up | B．went on | C．heard of | D．thought of |
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| 小题4: | | A．breaking | B．matching | C．training | D．watching |
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| 小题5: | | A．willing | B．sure | C．hopeful | D．active |
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| 小题8: | | A．need | B．get | C．decide | D．make |
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| 小题9: | | A．believed in | B．cared about | C．turned to | D．went through |
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| 小题10: | | A．forced | B．increased | C．damaged | D．tested |
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| 小题11: | | A．protect | B．carry | C．light | D．touch |
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| 小题12: | | A．challenge | B．chance | C．choice | D．moment |
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| 小题13: | | A．cheer | B．laugh | C．noise | D．shout |
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| 小题14: | | A．history | B．experience | C．devotion | D．stage |
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| 小题15: | | A．expected | B．supposed | C．proved | D．realized |
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Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were final 36 . All the kids had been working hard for some time, reviewing their 37 . If they didn’t pass the exams, they would have to 38 them in September. There were usually a few who _39 , but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, but she was working so hard that her mother 40 her. She went to bed too late. The night before the big day, her mother 41 that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised to 42 her up in the morning.
Jane was too 43 to fall asleep. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, the 44 did work. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper, but she couldn’t answer 45 of the questions. Everyone 46___ her was writing pages and pages. 47 , she couldn’t find anything to write about. From time to time she looked at her 48 .
Time was running 49 . There was only an hour to 50 . She started one question, wrote two sentences, 51 and tried another. With only half an hour left she wrote 52 two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started 53 . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she woke up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible 54 . A minute later, 55 called her name.
| 小题1: | | A．harvests | B．exams | C．reports | D．papers |
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| 小题2: | | A．exercises | B．jobs | C．books | D．lessons |
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| 小题3: | | A．take | B．write | C．attend | D．do |
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| 小题4: | | A．cheated | B．succeeded | C．passed | D．failed |
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| 小题5: | | A．cared for | B．felt proud of | C．worried about | D．thought highly of |
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| 小题6: | | A．insisted | B．agreed | C．promised | D．allowed |
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| 小题7: | | A．ring | B．wake | C．bring | D．pick |
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| 小题8: | | A．sad | B．tired | C．happy | D．nervous |
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| 小题9: | | A．dream | B．pill | C．suggestion | D．music |
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| 小题11: | | A．ahead | B．behind | C．in the front of | D．around |
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| 小题12: | | A．Unless | B．However | C．Though | D．As |
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| 小题13: | | A．watch | B．paper | C．teacher | D．book |
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| 小题16: | | A．gave out | B．gave up | C．put off | D．put out |
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| 小题17: | | A．another | B．more | C．other | D．the other |
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| 小题18: | | A．thinking | B．dreaming | C．crying | D．writing |
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| 小题19: | | A．exam | B．dream | C．story | D．night |
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| 小题20: | | A．her mother | B．her teacher | C．a classmate | D．a friend |
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