The time was 5:15 in the afternoon and I was driving along a high road to get my daughter from school. Over my road was another way for cars coming the__1__ way. It was just the rush hour and the traffic was very__2__. But I have got used to this because I often drive to the school __3__my daughter after work.

Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to move__4__, I slowed down. Then my car began to__5__. I didn't know what was happening.__6__something had gone wrong with my car. I drove__7__slowly. I stopped my car and at the same__8__the road fell onto the cars in front of me.

I found__9__in the dark. My legs and feet were__10__badly and I couldn't move. All around me was__11__. But below me I could hear shouts and a lot of noise.

Then I __12__ what had happened. I had__13__an earthquake!

__14__about two hours nobody came. Then I __15__ people climbing towards me. A team of people had come to see __16__anyone was under the broken road. I called __17__.

"I'm here!" Soon a stranger came up to me, "__18__are you doing?" he asked. "Not too bad," I said, "but my feet and legs __19__ as if they are broken." "We'll __20__ you out as soon as we can," he said. But they didn't rescue me until the next morning. I had been in my car for 14 hours.

1. A. same B. right C. left D. other

2. A. free B. heavy C. much D. large

3. A. for B. with C. in D. on

4. A. up and down B. here and there

C. from side to side D. back and forth

5. A. stop B. break C. shake D. jump

6. A. Perhaps B. Surely C. Suddenly D. Quickly

7. A. much B. still less C. very more D. even more

8. A. place B. result C. moment D. speed

9. A. me B. myself C. my car D. it

10. A. wounding B. hurting C. breaking D. damaging

11. A. noisy B. normal C. shouting D. quiet

12. A. realized B. reminded C. told D. thought

13. A. happened B. experienced C. founded D. escaped

14. A. Before B. After C. For D. Beyond

15. A. asked B. saw C. heard D. begged

16. A. that B. unless C. if D. how many

17. A. out B. on C. for D. in

18. A. How B. What C. Why D. Who

19. A. feel B. look C. grow D. turn

20. A. set B. find C. fetch D. help

I passed all the other courses that I took at my University，but I could have never passed botany（植物学）．This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope（显微镜）at plant cells，and I could never once see a cell through a microscope．This used to make my professor angry．He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the structure（结构）of flower cells，until he came to me．I would Just be standing there． “I can’t see anything，”I would say．He would begin patiently enough, explaining how anybody can see through a microscope，but he would always end up angrily．claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldn’t． “It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway” I used to tell him．”We are not concerned with beauty in this course． “he would say．”We are concerned with the structure of flowers．”“Well，”I'd say．”I can’t see anything．” “Try it just once again．”he'd say，and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all，except now and again something unclear and milky．”You were supposed to see a clear，moving plant cells shaped 1ike clocks．”“I see what looks like a lot of milk．”I would tell him．This，he claimed，was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly，so he would readjust it for me，or rather，for himself．And I would look again and see milk．

    I failed to pass botany that year，and had to wait a year and try again，or I couldn’t graduate．The next term the same professor was eager to explain cell一structure again to his classes． “Well，”he said to tile．happily．”we're going to see cells this time，aren't we?” “Yes，sir，”I said．Students to the right of me and to the left of me and in front of me were seeing cells；what’s more，they were quietly drawing pictures of them in their notebooks．Of course．I didn't see anything．

    So the professor and I tried with every adjustment of the microscope known to man．With only once did I see anything but blackness or the familiar milk，and that time I saw， to my pleasure and amazement，something 1ike stars．These I hurriedly drew．The professor，noting my activity，came to me，a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope．He looked at my cell drawing． “What’s that?” he asked．“That’s what I saw，”I said．”You didn’t，you didn’t，you didn’t!” he screamed，losing control of himself immediately，and he bent over and looked into the microscope．He r8ised his head suddenly．”That’s your eye!”．he shouted．”You’ve adjusted the microscope so that it reflects! You've drawn your eye!”

     ——Selected from University Days by James Thurber

1．Why couldn't the writer see the flower ceils through the microscope?

      A．Because he had poor eyesight．

      B．Because the microscope didn’t work properly．

      C．Because he was not able to adjust the microscope properly．

      D．Because he was playing jokes on his professor by pretending not to have seen it．

2．Why does the writer mention “Students to the right of tile and to the left of rile and in front of me were seeing cells” in Paragraph 2?

      A．To express his professor's satisfaction with his classmates．

      B．To prove his professors excellent teaching ability in his class．

      C．To show more clearly his not seeing the cells by comparing them with himself．

      D．To suggest his classmates' gift for drawing pictures，

3．What does the writer mean by “his eyebrows high in hope” in the last paragraph?

    A．His professor expected him to have seen the cells and drawn the picture of then,．

    B．His professor hoped he could perform his task with attention．

    C．His professor wished him to learn how to draw pictures．

    D．His professor looked forward to seeing all his students finish their drawings．

4．What is the thing like stars that the writer saw in the last paragraph?

A．Real stars．                                            B．His own eye． 

C．Something unknown．                               D．Milk

5．In what writing style did the writer write the passage?

      A．Realistic．                                              B．Romantic．

       C．Serious．                                               D．Humorous．

阅读理解训练

　　Mrs Matthews lived in a small town where there was one jeweller's shop. It also took in watch repairs, although it had to send them off to London for the work to be done, as there was not enough business to keep an expert watch repairer occupied.

　　When Mrs Matthews's old father died, she inherited his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It was big and heavy and worth a lot of money, but it was broken, so Mrs Matthews took it to be repaired.

　　The man in the jeweller's shop was very interested to see such an unusual watch, and when he had examined its insides, he said he could certainly have it repaired for her. “It'll last a long time once that's been done.”he said. He wrote out a ticket and gave it to Mrs Matthews saying. “Please bring this when you come to pick up the watch. But it might take a bit of time, because it isn't a modem watch.”

　　But Mrs Matthews had a lot of things to think about after her father died. She had to arrange to deal with the various affairs after her father's death.

　　The result was that she completely forgot about the watch that she had taken in for repair, and about the ticket for it, which she had put away in a drawer to keep it safe.

　　Then, while she was looking through some old drawers one day, she found the ticket for the watch repair.

　　She thought back, suddenly she remembered.“My father's gold watch! Didn't I pick it up? When did I take it in?”She looked at the ticket.

　　“How old's this ticket?” she said to herself. It was five years old.

　　Mrs Matthews had heard that shops could sell things that people had left with them if they didn't pick them up and pay for them before a certain time. “But the watch might still be there,”she thought.“I'll go and see if I can get it back. It might have been sold, but I hope not.”

　　She took the ticket to the jeweller's and the shopkeeper looked at it and then went to look for the watch without saying a word.

　　“That's good,”Mrs Matthews thought.“He didn't seem to mind about the date.”

　　The man came back after a few minutes and said,“It won't be ready until Friday.”

1．Who was the watch repairer according to the text?

[　　]

A．Mrs Matthews

B．One jeweller's shop

C．The hired expert watch repairer

D．Some watch repairer in London

2．In the sentence“She inherited his gold watch”, the underlined word “inherited”is closest in meaning to “________”

[　　]

3．In the shop owner's opinion, if the watch has been repaired, what will happen to it?

[　　]

A．It can keep its time for long

B．It is an old watch that can't go fast

C．It can last five years

D．The passage doesn't tell us

4．Five years later, ________.

[　　]

A．the gold watch was sold

B．Mrs Matthews decided to find the ticket in the drawer

C．the jeweller couldn't see the date on the ticket clearly

D．the gold watch was not yet repaired

5．Which title would best fit in with the present passage?

[　　]

A．Mrs Matthews' Death Affairs

B．Such“Fast Work”

C．The Story of Mrs Matthews

D．The History of the Gold Watch

阅读理解训练

　　Mrs. Matthews lived in a small town where there was one jeweller's shop. It also took in watch repairs, although it had to send them off to London for the work to be done, as there was not enough business to keep an expert watch repairer occupied.

　　When Mrs. Matthews's old father died, she inherited his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It was big and heavy and worth a lot of money, but it was broken, so Mrs. Matthews took it to be repaired.

　　The man in the jeweller's shop was very interested to see such an unusual watch, and when he had examined its insides, he said he could certainly have it repaired for her. “It'll last a long time once that's been done.”he said. He wrote out a ticket and gave it to Mrs. Matthews saying. “Please bring this when you come to pick up the watch. But it might take a bit of time, because it isn't a modem watch.”

　　But Mrs. Matthews had a lot of things to think about after her father died. She had to arrange to deal with the various affairs after her father's death.

　　The result was that she completely forgot about the watch that she had taken in for repair, and about the ticket for it, which she had put away in a drawer to keep it safe.

　　Then, while she was looking through some old drawers one day, she found the ticket for the watch repair.

　　She thought back, suddenly she remembered.“My father's gold watch! Didn't I pick it up? When did I take it in?”She looked at the ticket.

　　“How old's this ticket?” she said to herself. It was five years old.

　　Mrs. Matthews had heard that shops could sell things that people had left with them if they didn't pick them up and pay for them before a certain time. “But the watch might still be there,”she thought.“I'll go and see if I can get it back. It might have been sold, but I hope not.”

　　She took the ticket to the jeweller's and the shopkeeper looked at it and then went to look for the watch without saying a word.

　　“That's good,”Mrs. Matthews thought.“He didn't seem to mind about the date.”

　　The man came back after a few minutes and said,“It won't be ready until Friday.”

(1) Who was the watch repairer according to the text?

[　　]

A．Mrs. Matthews

B．One jeweller's shop

C．The hired expert watch repairer

D．Some watch repairer in London

(2) In the sentence“She inherited his gold watch”, the underlined word “inherited”is closest in meaning to “________”

[　　]

(3)In the shop owner's opinion, if the watch has been repaired, what will happen to it?

[　　]

A．It can keep its time for long

B．It is an old watch that can't go fast

C．It can last five years

D．The passage doesn't tell us

(4) Five years later, ________.

[　　]

A．the gold watch was sold

B．Mrs Matthews decided to find the ticket in the drawer

C．the jeweller couldn't see the date on the ticket clearly

D．the gold watch was not yet repaired

(5) Which title would best fit in with the present passage?

[　　]

A．Mrs. Matthews' Death Affairs

B．Such“Fast Work”

C．The Story of Mrs. Matthews

D．The History of the Gold Watch

阅读理解

　　Mrs Matthews lived in a small town where there was one jeweller's shop. It also took in watch repairs, although it had to send them off to London for the work to be done, as there was not enough business to keep an expert watch repairer occupied.

　　When Mrs Matthews's old father died, she inherited his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It was big and heavy and worth a lot of money, but it was broken, so Mrs Matthews took it to be repaired.

　　The man in the jeweller's shop was very interested to see such an unusual watch, and when he had examined its insides, he said he could certainly, have it repaired for her. “It'll last a long time once that's been done, ” he said. He wrote out a ticket and gave it to Miss Matthews saying, “Please bring this when you come to pick up the watch. But it might take a bit of time, because it isn't a modern watch.”

　　But Mrs Matthews had a lot of things to think about after her father died. She had to arrange to deal with the various affairs after his father's death.

　　The result was that she completely forgot about the watch that she had taken in for repair, and about the tick et for it, which she had put away in a drawer to keep it safe.

　　Then, while she was looking through some old drawers one day, she found the ticket for the watch repair.

　　She thought back, suddenly she remembered. “My father's gold watch! Didn't I pick it up? When did I take it in?”She looked at the ticket.

　　“How old's this ticket?” she said to herself. It was five years old.

　　Mrs Matthews had heard that shops could sell things that people had left with them if they didn't pick them up and pay for them before a certain time. “But the watch might still be there,” she thought. “I'll go and see if I can get it back. It might have been sold, but I hope not.”

　　She took the ticket to the jeweller's and the shop keeper looked at it and then went to look for the watch without saying a word.

　　“That's good,” Mrs Matthews thought. “He didn't seem to mind about the date.”

　　The man carne back after a few minutes and said, “It won't be ready until Friday.”

1．Who was the watch repairer according to the text?

[　　]

A．Mrs Matthews

B．One jeweller's shop

C．The hired expert watch repairer.

D．Some watch repairer in London.

2．In the sentence “She inherited his gold watch”, the underlined word “inherited” is closest in meaning to “________”.

[　　]

3．In the shop owner's opinion, if the watch has been repaired, what will happen to it?

[　　]

A．It can keep its time for long.

B．It is an old watch that can't go fast.

C．It can last five years.

D．The passage doesn't tell us.

4．Five years later, ________.

[　　]

A．the gold watch was sold

B．Mrs Matthews decided to find the ticket in the drawer.

C．the jeweller couldn't see the date on the ticket clearly.

D．the gold watch was not yet repaired.

5．Which title would best fit in with the present passage?

[　　]

A．Mrs matthews' Death Affairs

B．Such“Fast Work”

C．The Story of Mrs Matthews.

D．The History of the Gold Watch.