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hours. Because it was the weekend,there was only one car available at the moment-an SUV.
Patricia was an environmentalist. SUVs,which are big cars consuming a lot of gasoline,offended
her greatly.
But she needed something to get to Baker,a town that was 100 miles from the small airport.
So she went, RentMe instead. "I need a car for 48 hours," she said," and I don"t want an SUV.
I want something cheap. "They told her they had just the vehicle for her,a 1998Toyota. Thirty
dollars a day,including insurance and other incidental fees. All she had to do was to pay forher
own gasoline. Patricia was very pleased. Thirty dollars a day was a good rate even for a weekday.
She signed all the paperwork,and they gave her the keys.
The Toyota was a 4-speed,4-cylinder,2-door beauty,the paint,tires,and the interior were like
the new. It was comfortable, even though the air-conditioner was not the frostiest(结霜的) . She
got in and drove north. It was a two-lane road all the way to Baker,with only one town between
the airport and Baker. That town was Noms,40 miles from Baker.
Patricia didn"t make it to Norris. The car refused to run 30 minutes after she had been driving
it. Fortunately,her cell phone was able to connect back to the RentMe desk. "My car stopped
running. and I"m out here in the middle of nowhere in the hot sun! " she said.
"That doesn"t make any sense," said the clerk."You did put gas in the car before you left town,
didn"t you? "
"No. Of course not ! " yelled Patricia. " Why would Iput gas in the car before I even got out
of town?" "Well,why do you think you got such a good
rate-we save money by having the customer gas up instead of us having to put gas in the car. "
"I was in a hurry,"said Patricia.
"Well,sometimes you pay a price for being in a hurry," said the clerk. " We"II send a man out
with some spare gas for you:if you"d like. ,,"
Of course l"d like , " said Patria.ia. " How long willit be?"
The clerk told her it would be within the hour. He didn"t tell her that there would be a $ 50
service charge for delivering the gas,or that the 3 gallons of fuel would cost her $ 7 a gallon. She
would get that bad news when she retumed the car to the airport.
B. Because she failed to carry enough money with her.
C. Because she was not used to driving suc, h a big car.
D. Because it was not easy to drive since it was so old.
B. $ 60.
C. $ 131.
D. $ 80.
B. The air-conditioner of the Toyota was functioning perfectly.
C. The car broke down halfway there and needed repairing.
D. Patricia was quite satisfied with the price at first.
B. excited
C. amused
D. suited
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试题【阅读理解。 Patricia asked for the cheapest car available at Acme Car Rental. Sh】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened
the front door and saw two small children in rags shaking inside the storm door on the
top step.
" Anyoldpapers ,lady? " asked one of them.
I was busy. I wanted to say " no" until I looked down at their feet. They were
wearing thin little sandals(凉鞋) , wet with heavy snow.
"Come in and I"ll make you a cup of hot cocoa. "
They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the
floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I
went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.
The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in
her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, " Lady, are you rich?"
" Am I rich?Mercy , no ! "
I looked at the old furniture in the room. The girl put her cup back in its saucer
carefully and said, " Your cupsmatchyoursaucers. " Theyleftafter that, holding their
bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn"t said" Thank you" . They didn"t need
to. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful.
Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.
I tasted the potatoes and the meat soup. Potatoes and brown soup, a roof over our
heads, my man with a good steady job-these matched , too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints
of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in
case I should begin to forget how rich I am.
B. it was too cold outside that day
C. they wanted to collect old papers
D. they wanted to have a cup of cocoa
B. Because she had old papers to sell to them.
C. Because she knew them and wanted to make them hot cocoa.
D. Because she wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving party.
B. she saw the cups matched the saucers
C. the furniture in the riving room looks new
D. the boy with her told her about that
B. what jobs you are doing
C. how you help others
D. how you feel about your life
leader of the pack was a gray-and-white dog. The soldiers called him Nubs. Nubs was
shaking and___1__able to stand. Marine major Brian Dennis looked closer and saw that
there was a knife wound__2__his chest.
Dennis couldn"t stand seeing the dog__3___. He and his men immediately treated the
wound, and gave Nubs oral medicine. Nubs__4__but was still in pain. The next day, the
team had to__5__. Ten days later, Dennis"s unit was back -- and so was Nubs. He was
still__6__ , but the men fed him and played with him.
Before long the unit once again__7__an outpost (前哨) 70 miles away. Nubs, slowly
but determinedly,__8__them far into the trackless wasteland until the men lost__9__of him.
Two days later, beyond Dennis"s__10__, he saw Nubs just outside the outpost. The dog
had tracked him across 70 miles of frozen desert to__11__with the friend who had saved
his life. From then on Nubs and the men slept in the same place, and ran around in the
same ruins.
Until an order came down from above that they were not__12__to have pets, Dennis
__13__to make sure the dog would continue to live the__14__life. So he quickly raised
$ 4,000 from his family and friends to fly Nubs to__15__.
A month later, when Dennis and the dog were__16__in California, at first Nubs didn"t
recognize the guy.__17__within minutes, the dog jumped into Dennis" s arms, jumping up
again and again to__18__his friend"s face.
A little__19__and concern in the middle of war will not save a violent world. But small
stories, like the story of a soldier and a dog, hold a promise of a(n)__20__world.
( )2.A. in
( )3.A. stand
( )4.A. pulled through
( )5.A. leave
( )6.A. hungry
( )7.A. look up
( )8.A. watched
( )9.A. touch
( )10.A. ability
( )11A. part
( )12.A. asked
( )13.A. decided
( )14.A. moving
( )15.A. London
( )16A. found
( )17.A. So
( )18A. lick
( )19.A. pity
( )20.A. equal
B. on
B. starve
B. fell asleep
B. rest
B. tired
B. look over
B . followed
B. sight
B. surprise
B. fight
B. suggested
B. agreed
B. good
B. America
B. interviewed
B. And
B. touch
B. mercy
B. harmonious
C. at
C. bleed
C. woke up
C. pass
C. dirty
C. left for
C. accompanied
C. footprint
C. imagination
C. meet
C. required
C. accepted
C. safe
C. Iraq
C. linked
C. But
C. bite
C. care
C. prosperous
D. behind
D. suffer
D. fell down
D. remain
D. weak
D. returned from
D. barked
D. smell
D. understanding
D. break
D. allowed
D. proposed
D. interesting
D. Syria
D. reunited
D. Though
D. clean
D. contribution
D. amazing
accident on the bridge. A truck had hit the bridge and made it__1__for any traffic to
go over it. So in order to get to__2__I had to go a number of miles out of my way.
Not being that__3__with this road and not knowing__4___all the pot holes in the
road were, I topped a hill and right in my path was a big pot hole. I felt and heard the
familiar sound of a flat tire. I__5__as far to the right as possible and stopped. I tried
several times to change the tire, but__6__.
There I sat out in the country and no way to__7__with anybody. Just then, I looked
in my rear view mirror and a__8__was pulling out of a pasture behind me. I was__9___
and scared at the same time.
I was straggling to get the__10__out when this man in the pickup pulled in behind me.
He got out to introduce himself and__11__to help me. When he got the spare out we
discovered that the spare is also__12__. He told me he would take the tire and have it
__13__and call my husband.
We got the tire fixed__14__he took me back to my car. My husband was there
__15__us when we got back. The kind stranger stayed there and helped my husband
__16__the tire. After they finished we__17__thanked him and offered to pay him for
his__18__.
I will never forget his words, "Your thanks is__19__enough pay and I just hope if this
ever happens to my wife or daughter someone will be so__20__as to help them. "
( )2.A. school
( )3.A. satisfied
( )4.A. where
( )5.A. placed
( )6.A. failed
( )7.A. catch up
( )8.A. truck
( )9.A. excited
( )10.A. car
( )11.A. refused
( )12.A. flat
( )13.A. sold
( )14.A. but
( )15.A. listening to
( )16.A. break
( )17.A. both
( )18.A. imagination
( )19.A. more than
( )20.A. polite
B. city
B. interested
B. what
B. rode
B. abandoned
B. get in touch
B. pickup
B. relieved
B. wheel
B. offered
B. damaged
B. painted
B. so
B. worrying about
B. change
B. all
B. trouble
B. less than
B. active
C. work
C. identified
C. when
C. pulled
C. passed
C. have to do
C. car
C. determined
C. spare
C. pretended
C. invisible
C. packed
C. and
C. waiting on
C. clean
C. neither
C. diligence
C. rather than
C. kind
D. shop
D. familiar
D. which
D. managed
D. dropped
D. put up
D. bike
D. nervous
D. trunk
D. promised
D. lost
D. fixed
D. though
D. searching for
D. repair
D. everyone
D. patience
D. better than
D. wise
small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there. Next to the house is a
wooden fence. It is the kind described in Twain"s book, "The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, "published in1876.
In that story, Tom has been told to paint the fence. He does not want to do it. But
he acts as if the job is great fun. He tricks other boys into believing this. His trick is so
successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work. "The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer" is considered one of the best books about an American boy"s life in
the 1800s.
Tom Sawyer"s good friend is Huckleberry, or "Huck" Finn. Mark Twain tells this
boy"s story in" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "Huck is a poor child, without a
mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and beats him.
Huck"s situation has freed him from the restrictions of society. He explores in the
woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes
tobacco.
Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from
slavery. They travel together on a raft made of wood down the Mississippi River. Huck
describes the trip: "It was lovely to live on the raft. Other places seem so cramped up
and smothery, but a raft don"t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft...
Sometimes we"d have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time...We had the
sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at
them …"
B. smart
C. foolish
D. honest
B. he wants to find a friend live with
C. there"s no warm in his home
D. he loves nature and likes to adventure
B. powers
C. forces
D. rules
B. Huck could eat fresh food here
C. Huck could have the river there
D. Huck likes to be free
things. Firstly, I realized that I didn"t 1 anybody at the school. Secondly, I knew that l wanted to work
hard at my lessons and 2 something useful. And thirdly, I wanted to have a good time with new
classmates, without my parents around.
The first 3 frightened me in the beginning. But that 4 quickly disappeared. It was the other two
goals 5 ended up being my difficulties. I knew that it was 6 to devote enough time to class and to
social efforts. But I wanted to 7 in both. I knew this would be a 8 , but I didn"t realize how much
until classes began.
I got on well with the other girls who lived in my dorm. 9 , instead of finishing my homework
10 it was due, I went upstairs and had ice cream with my neighbor. I always finished it the next day
between classes. I knew 11 wasn"t very good and the grade I 12 showed my lack of effort.
I was 13 that I needed to find some sort of balance.
So I created a schedule (时间表) that would 14 my time up between going to class, doing
homework, and relaxing. It seemed like a good idea, 15 I was only able to 16 it for a few days. A
schedule like that was too much pressure.
So I tried another 17 . Each week I made a list of everything I had to get done during that week.
Then, under the list of things I had to get done, I 18 a list of things I could do if I had time.
This is the method I have used since then. I"m glad that I"ve learned to 19 things and it has 20
prepare me for what is to come after graduation.