题目内容
阅读下列短文, 从所给的四个选项中, 选出最佳答案。
The oldest man had just celebrated his hundredth birthday and the reporter of a paper called on him. Having congratulated the old fellow, the reporter asked a few questions. "For what reason do you live so long?" the reporter asked.
The old man thought a while and then, holding up his hand and counting the items (项) on his fingers, began, "I never smoke, drink or overeat and I always rise at six in the morning." "But," the reporter didn't agree, saying, "I had an uncle who acted in that way, yet he only lived to be eighty. How do you explain the cause of that? " "He didn't keep it up long enough," was the calm reply.
1. The reporter called on the old man ______.
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A. the day after his birthday
B. on his birthday
C. not long before his birthday
D. long before his birthday
2. The reporter asked the old man ______.
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A. what he usually drank or ate for his health
B. how he had enjoyed his hundredth birthday
C. how he had been able to live so many years
D. what the pleasure of being a hundred years was
3. The word "overeat" means ______.
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A. eat after the usual dinner time
B. eat very much
C. eat at an irregular time
D. eat too much
4. The reporter was not satisfied with the old man's reply because he knew that ______.
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A. drinking is bad for the health
B. his uncle enjoyed drinking and smoking
C. the old man was not really a hundred years old
D. his uncle didn't live as long as the old man
5. The difference between the old man and the reporter's uncle, according to the old man, was that his uncle ______.
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A. had a strong will
B. had a strong body
C. didn't continue the health-keeping measure over eighty
D. didn't give up the health-keeping measure
