B
Deep into the night, the bus pulled into a Howard Johnson’s restaurant and everybody got off the bus except Vingo. The young people began to wonder about him, trying to imagine his life:perhaps he was sea captain; maybe he had run away from wife; he could be an old soldier going home. When they went to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself. After a long time, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in prison in New York for the last four years, and he was going home.
“Well, when I was in prison I wrote to my wife. I said, Martha, I understand if you can’t stay married to me. I said I was going to be away a long time, and that if she couldn’t stand it, if the kids kept asking questions, if it hurt her too much, well, she could just forget all about me. I told her she didn’t have to write to me, and she didn’t. Not for the three and a half years.”
“Last week, when I was sure freedom was coming through, I wrote to her. I told her if she had a new young man, I would understand. But if she didn’t, if she would take me back, she should let me know. We used to live in this town, Brunswick, and there’s a great big oak tree just as you come into the town. I told her if she could take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and if she didn’t want me, forget me, no handkerchief and I’d keep going on through.”
Soon all the others were in it. When they were 20 miles from Brunswick, the young people took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex?con’s mask. Then it was 10 miles, and five, and the bus became very quiet.
Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances. All except Vingo.
39.In the story, the yellow handkerchief probably means_______.
A.happiness     B.sadness         C.I hate you         D.I still love you
40.The bus became quiet when it came near the town because all the passengers_______.
A.got tired after a long journey        B.got too sad to say anything
C.were anxious to see the oak tree      D.were touched by the story
41.The underlined part “All except Vingo” probably implies_______.
A.he found no handkerchief on the oak tree
B.he feared that his wife was playing a joke
C.he felt he could not match his wife any longer, afraid to face her
D.he had complicated feelings at the moment:guilty, grateful as well as excited
42.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Going Home                       B.A Handkerchief and an Oak Tree
C.A Long Bus Journey                  D.A Story of an Oak Tree

阅读理解。
     BAGHDAD-An Iraqi soldier went on the rampage at a joint security station in northern Iraq on Wednesday,
shooting dead two US soldiers and wounding six, the US military said. 
                                         
     A US soldier looks at destroyed vehicles at a parking lot after a bomb attack in Baghdad November 12,2008.
A parked car bomb killed four people and wounded 14 others, including two policemen, in Sadoun street in
central Baghdad, police said. [Agencies]
     The US military said the soldier opened fire on the Americans at the station. one of many in which Iraqi and
US troops operate side by side, in the city of Mosul. "The soldiers were in the courtyard……an Iraqi soldier
entered and shot two soldiers, killing one, mortally wounding another,and then spraying the others," said US
army spokeswoman for northern Iraq Major Peggy Kageleiry.
     "He was engaged by counter-fire and killed," she added. A local morgue said it had received the body of the
Iraqi soldier, riddled with bullets.
     Two local police sources and an Iraqi army source, all of whom declined to be named because of the
sensitivity of the subject, said a quarrel had broken out between the Iraqi and US soldiers at the joint station.
     But Kageleiry denied there was any altercation between the soldiers before the shooting.
     "The US soldiers had no conversation with this soldier and there was no interaction of any kind before they
were murdered," she said.
1. What does the word "altercation" mean?
A. disagreement
B. conflict
C. quarrel
D. debate
2. Why didn't the local police sources tell their name?
A. Because they were afraid of American soldiers.
B. Because American soldiers quarreled with them.
C. Because the government asked them not to do so.
D. Because they didn't want to be involved in it.
3. What can we infer from the passage?
A. There was only one conflict between the two armies.
B. More people will die.
C. The quarrel caused the shooting.
D. Kageleiry was sure that American soldiers did nothing wrong.

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