About once a month I have to go to Degford for my work. One day I went into a hotel there to have something to  36   . The waiter  37   my coat and put it in a small room.

   About an hour later I was  38   to go. The waiter  39  my coat to me.   40   something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. Then I took a good look at the   41. “Oh, you’ve brought someone  42   coat, ”I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine,   43   it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either. ”“Oh, then I  44   someone has taken your coat and left this, ”said the waiter, “This kind of thing   45  sometimes. ”

   I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold ring in it. So I went   46   to the police station.

  “  47   lost a ring? ”I asked. “Yes, ”said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring. He lost it in London. ”He   48   the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived. “Yes, this is my ring, ”he said, “How can I   49   you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and  50  I lost it on the train!”

   After I told him the  51  of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel. So how did my ring  52    in the coat? ”

“Did  53   sit or stand next to you on the train? ”asked the policeman.

“Yes, ”said the young man, “But I don’t remember his face. ”

“You may remember this coat, ”said the policeman, “Was it like this one? ”

“Yes, it was, ”said the young man. “But my friend here   54 the thief. ”

The policeman laughed. “   55   , ”he said, “The thief on the train stole your ring, and like our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the right coat away with him. ”

这是一则趣味故事,讲述作者到一家饭店去吃饭,脱下外套递给服务员,吃完后发现有人穿错了外套,并且口袋里有一枚金戒指。在警察的帮助下,找到了丢戒指的人,原来那人在火车上时,他的戒指被一个小贼偷走了。

36. A. do    B. buy    C. eat      D. deal with

[解析]选C。根据常识,作者进去后一小时要离开可以推断,他到这里是为了吃饭。

37. A. took     B. found

C. liked        D. watched

[解析]选A。根据句意,选择took表示“拿走”。

38. A. anxious     B. glad      C. invited       D. ready

[解析]选D。词组be ready to do. . . 表示“准备做某事”。

39. A. showed     B. returned     C. brought     D. dressed

[解析]选C。那位服务员把外套拿到作者面前,因此用brought。

40. A. Luckily       B. Suddenly

C. Obviously        D. At once

[解析]选B。副词suddenly说明作者感到意外。

41. A. ring      B. box     C. coat       D. pocket

[解析]选C。根据下一句话you’ve brought someone else’s coat 可以推断,作者这时仔细看了看那件外套。

42. A. lost     B. missed     C. new      D. else’s

[解析]选D。someone else’s coat表示“其他人的外套”。

43. A. but      B. and      C. instead       D. for

[解析]选A。根据逻辑判断前后为语意转折。

44. A. know     B. wonder      C. suppose      D. find

[解析]选C。suppose表示“猜测,猜想”。

45. A. appears      B. happens      C. meets      D. changes

[解析]选B。这样的事有时候会发生。

46. A. around     B. about 

C. ahead     D. over

[解析]选D。词组go over to someplace表示“向某地走过去”。

47. A. Has anyone  B. Has she

C. Who      D. Have you

[解析]选A。根据后面回答Yes可知前面是一般疑问句式,因此选A。

48. A. telephoned  B. remembered

C. wrote to       D. knew

[解析]选A。根据后面一句话the man arrived 可以推断,警察打电话给那个人。

49. A. return      B. thank      C. find       D. help

[解析]选B。这时当然要感谢作者了。

50. A. then      B. so      C. yet       D. however

[解析]选C。语意转折,句意为:然而我是在火车上丢的戒指。

51. A. story     B. price     C. model      D. size

[解析]选A。作者把刚才发生的事(story)告诉他。

52. A. come     B. put     C. set      D. be

[解析]选D。那么这只戒指是如何在那个外套里的呢?

53. A. he         B. the thief

C. the waiter     D. anyone

[解析]选D。意思是“那时有人坐在或站在你的旁边吗?”。

54. A. discovered  B. isn’t

C. has caught     D. doesn’t know

[解析]选B。但是这里的这位朋友不是小偷。

55. A. I’m afraid not          B. Yes

C. No                  D. Surely

[解析]选C。No在这里表示“是的,他不是一个小偷”。

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