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Mr Brown was at the theatre. He had got his ticket at the last moment, so he had not been able to choose his seat. He now found that he was in the middle of a group of American ladies , some of them middle-aged and some quite old. They obviously all knew each other well, as before the curtain went up on the play they had come to see. they all talked and joked a lot together.
The lady sitting on Mr. Brown's left, who was about sixty years old, seemed to be the happiest and the most interesting of the American group, and after the first act of the play, she apologized to him for the noise (喧闹声) of her friends. He answered that he was very glad to see American ladies so obviously enjoying their visit to England, and so they had a friendly talk. Mr. Brown's neighbour explained what they were doing there.
“You know, I have known these ladies all my life,”she said. “We all grew up together back in our hometown in the United States. They have all lost husbands, and call themselves the Merry Widows (寡妇). It is a sort of club, you know. They go to a foreign country every summer for a month or two and have a lot of fun. They always go everywhere together. I have wanted to join their club for a long time, but I was not able to become a member until the spring of this year. ”
1．Mr Brown did no get his ticket until ________.
[ ]
2．The group of American ladies enjoyed the play in a theatre in ________.
[ ]
3．Which of the following is TRUE?
[ ]
A．The person who lived next to Mr Brown was also at the theatre.
B．The American ladies apologized for being noisy.
C．All of the American ladies lost their husbands.
D．The American ladies did not know each other at all.
4．Mr Brown's neighbour at the theatre ________.
[ ]
A．did not know these ladies until recently
B．only knew some of them all her life
C．had not known them since she joined the club
D．had known these ladies for a long time
5．The lady sitting on Mr Brown's left finally succeeded in joining the club in the spring of this year when ________.
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A．her husband died
B．the ladies in the club began to like her
C．she got married
D．she pretended to be merry
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Mr Brown was at the theatre. He had got his ticket at the last moment, so he had not been able to choose his seat. He now found that he was in the middle of a group of American ladies , some of them middle-aged and some quite old. They obviously all knew each other well, as before the curtain went up on the play they had come to see. they all talked and joked a lot together.
The lady sitting on Mr. Brown's left, who was about sixty years old, seemed to be the happiest and the most interesting of the American group, and after the first act of the play, she apologized to him for the noise (喧闹声) of her friends. He answered that he was very glad to see American ladies so obviously enjoying their visit to England, and so they had a friendly talk. Mr. Brown's neighbour explained what they were doing there.
“You know, I have known these ladies all my life,”she said. “We all grew up together back in our hometown in the United States. They have all lost husbands, and call themselves the Merry Widows (寡妇). It is a sort of club, you know. They go to a foreign country every summer for a month or two and have a lot of fun. They always go everywhere together. I have wanted to join their club for a long time, but I was not able to become a member until the spring of this year. ”
1．Mr Brown did no get his ticket until ________.
[ ]
2．The group of American ladies enjoyed the play in a theatre in ________.
[ ]
3．Which of the following is TRUE?
[ ]
A．The person who lived next to Mr Brown was also at the theatre.
B．The American ladies apologized for being noisy.
C．All of the American ladies lost their husbands.
D．The American ladies did not know each other at all.
4．Mr Brown's neighbour at the theatre ________.
[ ]
A．did not know these ladies until recently
B．only knew some of them all her life
C．had not known them since she joined the club
D．had known these ladies for a long time
5．The lady sitting on Mr Brown's left finally succeeded in joining the club in the spring of this year when ________.
[ ]
A．her husband died
B．the ladies in the club began to like her
C．she got married
D．she pretended to be merry
查看习题详情和答案>>For twenty or thirty years Ernest Faber had owned cars of different sorts, and had driven them regularly, not only in England, but also in many countries of Europe and the Middle East. He was glad to think that he was an experienced driver, because he heard frequent complaints about the difficulties of passing the driving tests in these modern days. He was told that people tried unsuccessfully to pass the test five, seven, or even thirteen times. He heard of one man who failed the test, did no driving at all for a month, and then passed the next test without difficulty. One woman said that she failed several times in one part of the country. And so she went to another town and immediately passed. Faber was not sure whether to believe such stories or not. But he began to think that the results of the tests were frequently unreasonable.
Although it did not affect him in the least, Faber grew angry about all this. He decided to take the test himself. He was an excellent driver; and if he failed, that would prove that his doubts about the examiners were correct. And then he would write to the newspapers to tell everyone what happened.
About two months later the following letter appeared in one of the leading papers of England:
“Dear sir,
During the last twenty-seven years I have driven cars thousands of miles in thirteen different countries in all sorts of weather, and have never had an accident. I have never damaged anything belonging to anybody, and I have never seen the inside of a court of justice. I can take a motor-car engine to pieces and put it together again, and I have given driving lessons to men and women who have later passed the test. No policeman has ever said a sharp word to me. I am not a stupid person, and I have two university degrees.
For some time, I have felt doubtful about the driving test held in this country, because their results often seem unreasonable. I therefore decided that the time had come to test the examiners themselves. If anyone can drive a car, I can. I therefore paid the pound and sent my application in. It is unnecessary to tell you that I did not mention my great experience, my unusual ability as a driver, or my wide and exact knowledge of cars.
The day of the test came.
I very much regret to inform you that I passed.
Yours Faithfully
Ernest Faber”
57. Faber’s driving experience made him _____________.
A. surprised B. satisfied C. destroyed D. troubled
58. It was said that the driving tests in different parts of the country were ________.
A. not equally difficult
B. getting more and more difficult
C. intended to discourage women from driving
D. intended to discourage people from owning cars
59. When Faber decided to take the test, _____________.
A. he knew that he could do it free of charge
B. he expected to get a driver’s license
C. he wondered if he was an excellent driver
D. he thought even he himself might fail the test
60. The letter tells us that the driving test is _____________.
A. difficult B. unfair C. reasonable D. unbelievable
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A French father-of-two who swam across the Channel 16 years after losing all his limbs(四肢) in an electrical accident said Sunday that he was “the happiest man alive.”
Philippe Croizon, a 42-year-old former metalworker, said he had performed his feat(壮举)to inspire all those “who think life is nothing but suffering.”
He set off from Folkestone in southern England just before 8:00 am on Saturday, and arrived on the French coast near Wissant just before 9:30 pm, aided by his specially designed flipper-shaped prosthetic(假肢的)legs.
Steadying himself with his prosthetic arms, Croizon kept up a constant speed in good weather and was accompanied by wild dolphins for part of the 33-kilometre (20-mile) crossing. “For a while, I didn’t realize what I’d done. It was only that night, when I went to bed, that suddenly I burst out laughing, and told myself, ‘You did it!’,” he told AFP by telephone from his home in northern France.
In 1994 Croizon was hit by a 20,000-volt charge as he attempted to remove a television aerial from a house roof. “I was on my hospital bed; they’d just finished cutting off my last leg. You can imagine how that felt. And then I saw a television documentary on a female swimmer who crossed the Channel,” he explained.
“There and then, I asked myself: ‘Why not me one day?’” he said.
Croizon trained for two years and last month completed a 12-hour swim between the ports of Noirmoutier and Pornic on France’s Atlantic coast, but his final Channel crossing was much faster than he had expected. “I wanted to slow down, but I couldn’t. The motor was running,” he said, adding that he had expected to be at sea for 24 hours.
“It was huge. I was in the zone. I was inside my head. I didn’t want to disappoint anyone,” he said, declaring that his next long-distance challenge will be to swim between Europe and Africa.
60. What led to Philippe’s decision to swim across the English Channel?
A. The aim to inspire all those suffering from disabilities.
B. His strong will and determination.
C. The female swimmer who crossed the Channel.
D. His unfortunate experience.
61. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Philippe’s success in crossing the Channel was incredible
B. the wild dolphins kept him company all the way
C. it took him 24 hours to cross the Channel
D. Philippe planned to travel to Africa
62. What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?
A. Philippe was swimming in his head.
B. Philippe filled his mind with determination to succeed.
C. Philippe was imagining his success.
D. Philippe was dreaming about his swimming across the Channel.
63. What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Limbless Man Crosses The English Channel
B. Crossing The Channel with Prosthetic Flippers.
C. Philippe’s Purpose of Crossing the Channel.
D. How Philippe Became Limbless.
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