阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-25各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案

　My father was a lawyer in a small city in Illinois. in 　1　　　way he was different 　2　　 　most other lawyers: there were times when he didn't have 　3　 to say .He was friendly, but he was also a wonderful man for keeping his 　4 　shut.

　One year we spent 　5　 of the summer in a big old house in Michigan. At midnight my mother woke 　6 　up screaming,“There is a bat in this 　7　　 　! Robert! Get up ! Get up!”

　Father said something in a sleepy 　8 　,but we couldn't 　9 　hear his words. Then my mother's voice, 　10 　and mad, came clearly into our bedroom.“Well, 　11 　you aren't going to do anything about it, I am going to spend the 　12 　of the night down in the living room.”

　We were all asleep 　13 　she screamed again!“ There is 　14　　 　bat down here.” This time we could hear my father's answer.“ I 　15 　have told you that”, he called out. “I saw it 　16 　I came up to bed.”

　One September day, I remember, the minister of our church came to visit us. He wanted to 　17 　why my father hadn't 　18 　to church for a long time. We were in the garden when he arrived and started talking.

　Father 　19 　, but the minister kept on 　20 　. Where he 　21 　to leave, 　22 　backward as he talked. He couldn't see where he was going ．　 　　23 　he fell head over heels into a little ditch.

　The minister wasn't hurt, 　24 　his clothes were dirty and he was blue in the 　25 　.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～25各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案．

　One Saturday afternoon in February, 1943, a farmer in Mexico stopped 　1 　for a moment and looked across his field of corn. 　2 　he saw a thin line of white smoke curling up (旋转) out of his field, about 200 feet 　3 　he stood. As he went toward the smoke to see 　4 　, he heard a strange 　5 　. The line of smoke 　6 　bigger. It looked 　7 　some great force were pushing it up into the sky.

　The farmer 　8 　home to get his wife. While he was urging his wife to hurry 　9 　the house, the earth 　10 　violently (剧烈地). When he stood up 　11 　the earth stopped shaking, he looked across the field and saw that 　12 　flames (火焰) were rising from his cornfield. A volcano 　13 　.

　They hurried across 　14 　earth to the village of Paricutin, 　15 　was near their farm. They found the village in ruins (废墟) and the road from the village 16 frightened people 　17 　to safety.

　Paricutin did not become dark that night. The volcano lighted up the sky for miles around. Flames rushed 　18 　the ground. The volcano hurled (喷出) hot stones a thousand feet 　19 　the air. Great explosions shook the earth and heavy black ashes (灰) fell from the sky.

　But that was not all. Next there was lava (熔岩). 　20 　the third evening a stream of lava began to boil up from the centre of the volcano. It 　21 　slowly across the valley, 　22 　certain death to everything that could not move from its path.

　Government officials, scientists, newspaper reporters and photographers rushed into the valley. They went as 　23 　to the fire 　24 　and stayed there for several days, 　25 　the new volcano which people now call Paricutin, after the village.

　He is ______ as a leader but he hasn't ______ in teaching.

　　　　A. success; many experiences　　　B. a success; much experience

　　　　C. great success; an experience　　D. a great success; an experience