题目内容
An unlucky Singaporean thief picked up six years of hard labor after the unique (独特地) ring of the mobile phone he stole led police straight to him．Pretending to be a police detective, Rahman Magundario robbed two teenagers in a park, told them to turn their backs and stole the $ 140 phone, court documents show．If he had chosen another target (目标) in the mobile mad city state, he might have got off the hook．His number was up a short while later when the victim (受害人) heard the characteristic tune he had programmed into the phone．An unsuspecting buyer, who paid $ 70 in a coffee shop for what he thought was Magundario's mobile, pointed police to the thief．The 39-year-old was sentenced for threatening the teenagers and pretending a police officer．He got six years of corrective training, a court official said．It's worse than a prison sentence．
1．The police caught the thief without any difficulty mainly because________．
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A．the buyer pointed police to the thief
B．the thief pretended a police officer
C．the ring of the stolen mobile phone was different from that of others
D．the thief robbed two teenagers in a park
2．It can be learned from the text that Magundario________．
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A．stole the phone for money
B．sold the mobile phone for its unique ring
C．pretended a police officer because he looked like a policeman
D．was sentenced six years in prison
3．What can be inferred from the story?
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A．Many people in the city have mobile phones．
B．The thief would rather pick up six years of hard labor．
C．The thief would have escaped being caught if he hadn't sold the stolen phone．
D．The police recognized the thief when they heard the ring．
4．By saying his number was up a short while later, the writer means________．
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A．the thief knew the mobile phone number soon afterwards
B．the thief lost his luck before long
C．the thief forgot the mobile phone number a moment later
D．someone dialed the mobile phone number soon
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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
【小题1】What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
| A．He will direct the right way to the person willingly. | B．He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town. | C．He will give the very person long list of direction. | D．He is going to show the man an opposite direction. |
| A．Because of his poor sense of direction. |
| B．Because he always forget the way to home. |
| C．Because he did not have any friend. |
| D． Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way. |
| A．He felt strange. | B．He felt embarrassed. |
| C．He felt very sad. | D．He felt astonished. |
| A．Someone we don’t know. | B．The writer did it for himself. | C．The secretary did so. | D．A warm-hearted old lady did itI. |
| Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry. He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his alarm clock（闹钟）. He tried to shave（刮脸）quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean needed ironing（熨）, so he ironed it. While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to read the electricity meter（表）. He showed him where the meter was, said good-bye and found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By this time it was very late, so he decided he couldn’t go to work by bus. He telephoned for a taxi to take him to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began to read the newspaper. In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a taxi. When Harry’s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry’s shirt, and took him to the police station. He was kept till 3 o’clock in the afternoon before the police were sure that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about four, his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job. 1. Harry had . A. a lucky day B. an unlucky day C. a busy day D. a good day 2. Put the following sentences into correct order according to the passage. a. The man who read the electricity meter came. b. Harry ironed his shirt. c. Harry got blood all over his clean shirt. d. There was a knock at the door. e. Harry wore the shirt with blood on it. A. a, b, c, d, e B. b, a, d, c, e C. b, a, c, d, e D. c, b, d, a, e 3. Why did Harry wear the shirt with blood on it? A. He had only one shirt. B. The only other needed ironing. C. The iron had burnt a hole in his clean shirt. D. He cut himself and got blood all over his shirt. 4. Harry was taken to the police station because . A. his taxi stopped outside his office and a policeman happened to be there B. there was blood on his shirt and he was in a taxi C. a man killed a woman with a knife D. the murderer(杀人犯) was seen to run a away in a taxi 5. His boss told him to go away and find another job because . A. he had been kept by the police B. there was blood on his shirt C. he was late for work D. he had killed a woman
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