题目内容
I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday．The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box office in Richland Hills any day between 10 : 00 and 4 : 00．Since I work from 9 o'clock to 5 : 30, the only time I could go to the theatre was during my 45-minute lunch break．Unfortunately, the theatre on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good．But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes．Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus．By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I give up and went back to the office．The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday．On Thursday, my luck changed, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes．When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office．I heard one man say he has been waiting in line for over an hour．Realizing I would not have enough time to waiting in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town．By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi only which took me 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me．When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line．The reason, I quickly discovered , was that they had already sold all the tickets．
1．The writer is probably_________．
A．a worker B．a college teacher
C．manager of a company D．a clerk
2．He learned ________________________ that there would be a concert last Friday．
A．from his friends B．from one of his classmates
C．over the radio D．from the newspaper
3．He tried to go to the theatre every day but only managed to get there ________________.
A．once B．twice C．three times D．four times
4．One day the writer took ________________________ to get to the theatre by bus．
A．forty-five minutes B．fifteen minutes
C．exactly twenty minutes D．exactly twelve minutes
DDBC
阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D），选出最佳选项。
I had my first job at the age of thirteen, when a friend of my mother’s who owned a bookshop _36 me for six hours a week to help her in the shop. I was very 37 to earn my own pocket money and my parents 38 interfered(干涉) with how I spent it, even when I was spending it 39 . They believed that by earning money, spending it, and learning from the 40 , I would become more mature(成熟) and 41 about how to handle work, relationships with others, and money.
Like many 42 parents, my parents also let me and my brothers do things over which they 43 a great deal. When I was sixteen, for example, after I finished high school and before I entered university, I wanted to spend the summer months traveling around 44 . My mother was against the idea of my traveling alone at such a young age, but my father felt that it would be a great 45 for me. In the end, my father won the 46 on the condition that I limited my traveling to France, my mother’s home, where I had many uncles, aunts and cousins 47 through the country who could 48 shelter and help if I need them.
Three years later, my younger brother decide to 49 a year off after his first year in university and travel through the United States and the Caribbean. Again my mother was very worried and not 50 to see my brother leave school, but my father encouraged him and my brother had a(n) 51 year working his way on trains and ships to 52 passage to different ports and cities, and discovering many fascinating places and people.
These kinds of experiences are probably rare(稀少的) for children in many countries but in the US they are fairly 53 . Most parents start 54 their children at a young age to do small things by themselves. By the time they have finished high school, many American kids have already had part-time jobs, traveled around the US or other countries on their own, have 55 the university they plan to attend and maybe even decided on their future career, and so on.
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