Ⅳ阅读理解(2×20，共40分)阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案。

Mr. Brown had a nice shop in the main street of a small town. He sold jewelry, watches and the like. All went well some years, and then his shop was broken into twice in one month at night, and a lot of jewelry was stolen each time. Three weeks had passed, yet the police had not done much to catch the thief. So Mr. Brown decided to try to do something about it himself. He bought a good camera and fixed it up in his shop and put some cheap jewelry in front of it for the thief so that it could take a photo of anyone who stole the jewelry. A few nights later the thief did come again. But he did not touch any of the cheap jewelry that Mr. Brown had put out for him. He took the camera, which was worth 15,000 pounds.

1. The jewelry the thief had stolen was ________

A. very valuable.    B. worth little money.

C. quite cheap.      D. of no use to the thief.

2. How did the thief know about jewelry?

A. He knew a little about jewelry.

B. He knew a lot about it.

C. The poor one knew nothing about jewelry.

D. He knew little about it.

3. Why did Mr. Brown buy a camera and put it in the shop?

A. Because the camera was not so expensive as the jewelry or the watches in the shop.

B. Because he knew that the thief was interested in a cheap camera.

C. Because he thought that a good camera could help him find out who the thief was.

D. Because the policemen told him to do so.

4. What did Mr. Brown lose during the two months?

A. 15,000 pound notes.

B. A camera and 15,000 pounds.

C. Lots of jewelry and a good camera.

D. A lot of jewelry, a camera and 15,000 pound notes.

阅读下面短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式，并将答案写在答题纸上。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

    One night, Mrs. Riley was walking along a dark street. She was carrying her handbag in one   1   and a plastic carrier bag in the other. There was   2   else in the street except two youths. They were standing in a dark shop doorway. One of them was very tall with fair hair; the other was short and fat with a beard and moustache.

    The youths waited   3   a few moments, and then ran quickly and quietly towards Mrs. Riley. The tall youth held her from   4   while the other youth tried to snatch her handbag.

    Suddenly, Mrs. Riley   5   (throw) the tall youth over her shoulder. He crashed into the other youth and they   6   landed on the ground. Without   7   (speak), Mrs. Riley hit both of them on the head with her handbag, and walked calmly   8  .

    The two   9   (surprise) youths were still sitting on the ground when Mrs. Riley crossed the   10   towards a door with a lighted sign above it. Mrs. Riley paused, turned round, smiled at the youths and walked into the South West London Judo Club.

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

（请将答案写在答题卡上的指定位置）

No word was exchanged, and they set off in _____(沉默) down the road.

What _____(失望) him was that the results were contrary to what he had expected.          

I found the shop where this kind of camera was sold after passing through four _____ (街区).            

Jerry cleaned all of the desks, which were very _____(灰尘).           

Put your ______(香烟) out — you mustn’t smoke in the gas station.    

_____(远程) education makes it possible to study anytime, anywhere.                                                                                                          

After the race, I really didn’t have the _____(力气) to help you carry it.                                                        

The old man entered the room, _____(搀扶) by his grandson.   

I missed the smell of my mum’s cooking _____(漂浮) out from the kitchen.            

He is ____(遭受) from a guilty feeling because he hasn’t told his mother he crashed her car.                                  

语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分；满分15分）

         阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷上相应的位置。

Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, _1__ one of America’s most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting _2__ she was too old to work on her farm.

Grandma Moses was crazy about painting soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it. She painted _3___ (care) and her works were nice. She first painted only to please _4__, and then began to sell her works _5_a little money. In 1993, a collector, Louis Caldor, happened to see several of Grandma Moses’ works _6_ (hang) in a shop. He liked them, __7___(buy) them at once, and set out to look for _8___. Caldor held __9__ show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other artists. Grandma Moses, _10__ was world-famous, died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项，请将答案写在答题纸的相应位置。

Success story

Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.Frank is now the head of a very large business company.   1   .It was his job to repair bicycles    2   .He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small work-shop of his own.During the war Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.   3   .By the end of the war,  4   which employed seven hundred and twenty-enght people.Frank smiled when he remembered    5   .He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.She wanted him to repair their son’s bicycle!

E.His hard early years and the long road to success

F.The small work-shop had become a large factory

G.He wanted to succeed.