Urban legends are stories that are told and believed in many places．Too many places，in fact．It simply isn’t credible that the same unlikely events take place in so many different towns．For some reason，though，that particular set of events appeals to the imagination and the tale spreads．

A very common North American urban legend concerns a mad man in the woods．A dangerous mad man has escaped from a hospital for the mentally ill．At some point in his life he has lost a hand and it has been replaced by a hook．A boy and a girl are out dating，sitting in a car．They hear on the radio that the area is dangerous，so they drive off．When they arrive home they find a bloodstained hook hanging on the door handle of the car door next to the girl．

Missing kidney(肾)stories are fairly common．Of course，the details are variable．It might be a woman waking up in a strange hotel in Bangkok，or a man finding himself in a cold bath in Toronto．or a young man with faint memories of wild disco party，but they all find a flesh wound，and discover that one of their kidneys has been removed and，probably, sold．

The back seat killer has plenty of drama．A woman gets into her Car late at night．Another Car follows her, speeding，flashing lights and really frightening her．She gets home and keeps on pressing the horn．Her husband runs out．The chasing car stops．The husband demands to know why the driver has been frightening his wife．He says he saw a strange man get into the back of the car as the wife got in，and then hide．They go and look，and there is a dangerous mad man...

1.What is the writer’s attitude towards “urban legends”?

2.What can be inferred from the hook hanging on the Car door?

3.What do we know about the three people mentioned in the third paragraph?

4.Why does the woman driver keep on pressing the horn?

5.How should we describe the second driver in the 4th paragraph?

Tom wants to know if we can ____ John for the night, since he has lost all his money and can go nowhere.

　　Trees are useful to man in three important ways, and they provide 1 with 2 and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought 3 floods.

　　Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not 4 that the third of these is the most important. In his eagerness to 5 money from trees, he has cut them down in large 6 , only to find that without them he has lost the best 7 he had. And besides, he is usually too 8 to plant and look after new trees. 9 the forests slowly disappear.

　　This does not only 10 that man will have fewer trees. The results are even 11 , for where there are trees, 12 break up soilallowing the rain to sink in and also bind (固定) the soil, thus preventing it from 13 easily; but where there are no trees, the 14 falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the 15 top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.

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第一节单词拼写(10小题；每小题1分,满分10分)

1.He was suspected of p_________________(毒害his wife.

2.No one can p_________________（预测）what will happen one day.

3.Teachers shouldn’t show p_______________(偏爱) to any student.

4.The picture by Picasso a_______________(吸引) to all the students here.

5.It was t_______________(典型的) of her to help others when they are in trouble.

6.He has lost f_______________(信任)in me

7.I found it hard to c______________(表达) my feeling in words.

8.May I e_______________(交换) seats with you?

9.He is gifted and good at writing p______________(诗歌).

10.He a_____________ (申请) for the job.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic Adventure novel by Jules Verne. The story starts in London in 1872. One day in the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy gentleman, accepts a wager(赌注) for £20,000, which he will receive if he travels around the world in 80 days.
Phileas Fogg sets off immediately, with his servant Passepartout. They reach Suez(苏伊士) quickly. While landing in Egypt, he is watched by a British detective named Fix, who is in search of a bank robber. Because Fix mistakes Fogg for the criminal, he follows secretly, as they are getting on a ship to Bombay.
After more than 20-days of travelling, they arrive in San Francisco, and then get on the train to New York. During that trip, the train is attacked by Indians, who take Passepartout away. With some soldiers’ help, Fogg succeeds in freeing his companion. To make up for the lost time, Fogg and his companion hasten on to New York, and catch the steamer for the crossing of the Atlantics. They arrive in Ireland in time to reach London before the deadline. However, once on British soil again, Fix arrests Fogg. Although the misunderstanding is quickly cleared up—the actual bank robber had been caught several days earlier. Fogg has missed the train and returns to London five minutes late, sure that he has lost the wager.
However, the next day Fogg learns from the priest that he is mistaken in the date, which he thinks Sunday but which actually is Saturday, due to the fact that they gained a full day on their journey around the globe, by crossing the International Date Line. Fogg immediately sets off for the Reform Club, where he arrives just in time to win the wager.
【小题1】The reason that Fix wants to arrest Phileas Fogg is that                  .