A few days ago my wife sent me out to buy something. When I came home, I handed(交给) her a paper bag and said, “Here are the apples you wanted.” She looked in the bag, and then she looked at me. “I told you,” she said slowly, “to buy some eggs.”

I felt worried about my absent-mindedness, so I went to see a doctor. He was a very kind man. “I have seen many people like you. It’s nothing to worry about,” he said. “If you know you are absent-minded, you are all right. But if you do not know you’re absent-minded, you may be really in trouble.”

“Many famous people were absent-minded,” the doctor told me. “Thomas Edison(爱迪生)was standing in line(排队) one day to pay his taxes(税). When he arrived at the window, he found that he had forgotten his own name. He had to ask the man who was behind him to tell him who he was.”

I felt much better and got up to leave. “Thank you, doctor,” I said. “How much do I have to pay you?”

“Ten dollars for the check-up(检查),” the doctor said.

“But doctor, I did not have a check-up!”

For a moment the doctor looked puzzled. Then he said, “Oh, yes, it was the patient before you who had a check-up. How absent-minded I am!”

 

1.It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that when the author’s wife heard what her husband told her, she was ______.

A. excited           B. surprised           C. sad                  D. proud

2.The doctor took Edison’s story for example ______.

A. to show absent-mindedness is common among people

B. because he liked telling stories

C. to make the author laugh    

D. to make fun of Edison

3.The underlined word “absent-mindedness” in the second paragraph probably means ______.

A. a feeling of anger            

B. a feeling of sadness  

C. an emotion (情绪) of excitement  

D. a trouble in which people often forget this or that

4.According to the passage, who was (were) absent-minded?

A. Only the author.                  B. The author’s wife.

C. The author and the doctor.         D. The doctor alone.

 

I had not thought I would have to go down into the pit with snakes in order to catch them, so I was wearing the   36   sort of clothes. I explained this to my friends, yet they very kindly lent me these trousers and shoes, which were quite   37   and strong. So, as I could think of    38    excuses, they tied the rope round my waist and started to   39   me into the pit. Just before I landed on the bottom, I   40   up and told them to stop lowering me. I wanted to   41   the ground that I was going to land on, to make sure there were no snakes in the way. The area being   42  , I shouted to them to lower away, and at that moment   43   things happened.
    Firstly, the   44   went out; secondly, one of the shoes which I had   45   from my friends and which were too   46   for me, came off. So there I was, standing at the   47   of  the ten-foot-deep pit, with no light and no shoe on one foot,   48    by seven or eight deadly Baboon snakes. I had never been more   49  . I had to wait in the dark, without daring to move while my friends   50   the lamp out, lit it again and lowered it into the pit again.
    With plenty of light and both shoes on, I felt much   51   and began with the task of catching snakes. This was really easy enough. I had a   52   stick in my hand, and with this I came near each snake, pinned it down with the fork and then picked it up by the back of the neck, and put it into my snake bag. What I had to   53   out for was that while I was busy catching one snake, another might move round   54   me and I might step back on it. However, it all passed without   55  . And by the end of half an hour I had caught eight of the Baboon snakes.

36. A. right

B. wrong

C. terrible

D. favorite

37. A. thin

B. tight

C. thick

D. short

38. A. too many

B. so few

C. any other

D. no more

39. A. put

B. lower

C. throw

D. make

40. A. called

B. climbed

C. got

D. jumped

41. A. search

B. find

C. cover

D. examine

42. A. clear

B. flat

C. big

D. terrible

43. A. some

B. two

C. several

D. three

44. A. snakes

B. birds

C. light

D. rope

45. A. bought

B. worn

C. taken

D. borrowed

46. A. large

B. small

C. light

D. heavy

47. A. top

B. bottom

C. side

D. centre

48. A. bitten

B. hit

C. surrounded

D. watched

49. A. excited

B. delighted

C. frightened

D. surprised

50. A. put

B. helped

C. sent

D. pulled

51. A. braver

B. happier

C. easier

D. warmer

52. A. sharpened

B. forked

C. straight

D. strong

53. A. take

B. turn

C. look

D. reach

54. A. before

B. from

C. above

D. behind

55. A. accident

B. success

C. care

D. difference

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