(B)
At the west end of the clearing, the men
stood in a circle around the snake. Roger tried time and again. He could get
the head in the fork, but when he tried to bring it to the ground it would slip
out. And the snake was becoming more and more angry.
"It is going
to spit," warned Joro.
"Let it spit.
It can't shoot this far."
roger was at least three meters from the snake.
In the next instant Roger learned a lesson
he would never forget . Two white streams shot out from the snake's poison
fangs(毒牙).
He would
never have believed it possible. How could the snake be so accurate? How did it
know that the weakest part of an enemy was the eye?
He brushed the poison away with the back of
his band. It did no good. Enough had gone in to give him great pain. Worst of
all, he found himself half blind.
74. Roger didn't listen to the warning
because ______.
(A) the snake wasn't able to shoot that far
(B) he knew it was going to spit
(C) e had made preparations for it to
spit (D) he had never thought it
could shoot as far as three meters
75. According to the passage, which of the
following is true?
(A) The moment Roger stopped saying, the
snake attacked him.
(B) Before Roger realized it would spit, it
attacked him.
(C) While Roger was having a lesson, it
attacked him
(D) When Roger saw two white streams
coming, he stepped aside.
76. In the sentence "He would never have believed it possible" the word "it "refers to _____.
(A) the snake (B) the
snake's poison (C) Roger's eye (D) the snake's
shooting Roger's eye
77. What lesson shall we draw from their
accident?
(A) A snake is very clever. (B) Run away at
the sight of a snake.
(C) Don't be too sure of ourselves. (D) It
is a pity to be half-blind.