A man was on the side of the road hitchhiking（搭便车）on a very dark night in the middle of a terrible rainstorm, with no cars on the road．The storm was so strong that the man could hardly see a few feet ahead of him．Suddenly, he saw a car come towards him and stop．The man, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door and only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the steering wheel（方向盘）!
The car started to move very slowly. The man looked at the road and saw a curve （拐弯处）coming his way. Terrified, he started to pray, begging for his life. He had not come out of shock when, just before the car hit the curve, a hand suddenly appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The man, paralyzed with fear, watched how the hand appeared every time the car was drawing near a curve．Finally, although terrified, the man managed to open the door and jump out of the spooky （幽灵般的）car. Without looking back, the man ran through the storm all the way to the nearest town. In a state of complete horror, the man walked into a nearby bar and asked for two glasses of Scotch whisky.
Then, still shaking with fright, he started telling everybody in the bar about the horrible experience he just went through in the spooky car. Everyone in the bar listened in silence and became frightened, with hair standing on end, when they realized the man was telling the truth because he was crying and he was certainly not drunk!
About half an hour later, two other young men walked into the same bar and one said to the other, “Hey, there’s a stupid man who jumped into the car while we were pushing it!”
【小题1】After he entered the car, the man found ____________.

On a warm Monday．Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees．Rolling down the windows to   1   in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch．Suddenly she   2   a big bald （秃顶的） man running through the

parking lot．Before she came to   3   what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window．"Get out"

     Neilson   4  ．

     Pulling open her floor, the man seized her   5   the neck and hair, and threw, her out of the car onto the ground．She screamed,   6   her purse and the keys．

     Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a   7   , heard the screams anti began running．

   When they   8   Neilson's car, the attacker had jump into the driver's seat an was   9   searching for the keys．Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out．The attacker    10    back．But even in his cornered panic, he was no 11  for the two athletic men．

Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the scrams, too． He rushed back to the office to   12   the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes-use to tie up newspapers．

     With his arms   13   tightly behind him, the prisoner looked up and said  14  ; “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves -you just caught one of the most wanted men．"They  15  him and waited for the police

     Later, Bruce and Jackson were socked to learn the man was the   16   carjacker（劫车者） and suspected murderer, whose  17   —but with a full head of hair — had been recently printed in their own newspaper．

      Neilson considers herself lucky   18   she suffered injuries．She believes the story might have had a    19    ending if those good people had not come to her aid． “Unfortunately,” she says, “many people would   20   have done what they did, and that is the real truth．”

1．A．bring                B．let                 C．gather              D．send

2．A．recognized           B．watched            C．noticed             D．met

3．A．realize               B．understand          C．imagine             D．conclude

4．A．escaped             B．struggled           C．refused             D．obeyed

5．A．by                 B．around             C．with               D．on

6．A．burying              B．forgetting           C．offering            D．grabbing

7．A．trip                 B．visit                C．break               D．holiday

8．A．started               B．stopped             C．entered             D．reached

9．A．carefully              B．madly              C．disappointedly       D．patiently

10．A．fought             B．turned              C．jumped             D．shouted

11．A．match             B．target               C．equal              D．companion

12．A．remind                B．phone                 C．invite                 D．beg

13．A．roiled              B．folded              C．bent               D．tied

14．A．angrily             B．kindly              C．coldly              D．warmly

15．A．caught            B．thanked             C．comforted          D．ignored

16．A．ordinary           B．professional         C．honest             D．outstanding

17．A．picture             B．background．     C．character           D．story

18．A．and               B．but               C．though             D．when

19．A．ridiculous          B．similar                   C．strange            D．different

20．A．sometimes         B．never                  C．often              D．forever

One winter evening, a storekeeper was going to close up his shop. Suddenly he saw Seth, a lazy, good-for-nothing fellow grab a pound of fresh butter and concealed it in his hat. No sooner had the storekeeper seen the act than he hit upon exactly the right revenge. He would punish the thief, and satisfy his own appetite for fun.

Seth had his hat on his head, and the butter in his hat. He was anxious to leave. However, the rightful owner of the butter offered him a cup of hot drink, took him by the shoulders and planted him in a seat close to the stove. The grocer stuffed in the stove as many sticks of wood as he could possibly fit inside.

Seth already could feel the butter settling down closer to his hair, so he jumped up, declaring that he must go. “Sit down; don’ t be in such a hurry,” replied the grocer, pushing him back into the chair again.

Streak after streak of the butter came pouring from under the poor man’s hat. The fun-loving grocer kept on stuffing wood into the stove. Then, as if surprised, he remarked, “You seem to be perspiring (排汗) as if you were warm! Let me put your hat away for you.”

“No!” exclaimed poor Seth at last, unable to stand it a moment longer. “No, I must go; let me out.”

A greasy (油腻的) waterfall of butter was now pouring down the poor man’s face and neck, soaking (浸泡) into his clothes, and trickling down his body into his boots. He was bathed in oil from head to toe.

Just as his victim darted out the door, the grocer said, “I reckon (估计) the fun I’ve had out of you is worth the money, so I shan’t charge you for that pound of butter in your hat.”

1．Why did Seth put the butter in his hat?

A. Because he just wanted to play a trick on the grocer.

B. Because he had nowhere to put the butter but in the hat.

C. Because he wanted to revenge himself on the grocer.

D. Because he didn’t want to pay for it.

2．What is not the action that the grocer took as a revenge?

A. The grocer offered Seth a cup of hot drink.

B. The grocer forced Seth to take a seat near the stove.

C. The grocer overcharged Seth for the butter.

D. The grocer offered to take off Seth’s hat.

3．What was the purpose of the grocer’s hospitality?

A. He wanted to make friends with Seth.

B. He wanted to be kind to him.

C. He wanted to take his revenge on Seth by making the butter in his hat melt.

D. He wanted to sell more of his goods.

4．What is the best title of the passage?

A. Great fun B. The right revenge C. A fun-loving grocer D. A foolish customer