Question

Here are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!
John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadn’t done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lee’s body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadn’t killed the woman, and he believed it was the "hand of God" that had saved him from death by hanging.
The police in Venezuela (委内瑞拉)in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥伦比亚). Venezuela’s neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律师). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the man’s crime (罪行)was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.
【小题1】The underlined（下划线) word "hanged" in this passage probably means _.

A．shut in a room »

B．questioned by the police

C．killed by putting a rope around the neck

D．kept in a place

【小题2】 What do we¹ know about the door in the floor?

A．It had opened the day before the hanging.

B．It had been broken a long time.

C．After three times, it opened.

D．John Lee’s dead body fell through it.

【小题3】From the story we know that the thief’s bedroom was____.
A. in Venezuela B. in Colombia
C. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia I), in both Venezuela and Colombia
【小题4】Why didn’t the Venezuelan police go into the man’s bedroom?

A．They didn’t know where it was.

B．The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia.

C．The police in Colombia told them that (hey would help.

D．The police in Colombia told them not to go inside.

【小题5】 The police in Colombia didn’t help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief because

A．they didn’t know where he was

B．the police in Venezuela didn’t ask for help

C．the man’s lawyer told them not to help

D．the man’s crime was not a crime in Colombia

Answer 1

【小题1】C
【小题1】A
【小题1】B
【小题1】B
【小题1】D

解析【小题1】猜测词义。根据第二段最后一行from death by hanging可知，John Lee因有杀人嫌疑而被判绞刑。hang的过去分词有两种，hung意为“悬挂”；hanged意为“绞刑”。故选C。
【小题1】根据第二段第六行even though it had worked well the day before可知，前天，门完好无损。故选A。
【小题1】根据第三段地四行the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia可知，小偷的卧室在哥伦比亚。故选B。
【小题1】根据第三段第四行The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom可知，委内瑞拉的警察不能进入哥伦比亚。故选B。
【小题1】根据第三段倒数第三行because the man’s crime was not a crime in Colombia可知，因为小偷不是在哥伦比亚犯罪的，因此哥伦比亚的警察拒绝帮忙找那个小偷。故选D。