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____ we had read your letter _the true state of affairs.

A.
It was until… that we understood
B.
It was not until…that we understood
C.
Until …did not we understand
D.
Not until… we understood`

B

这题考查强调句的用法：It’s not until…that…“直到…才”，句意是：直到我们读了你的信，我们才知道事情的真实情况。如果用not until在句首，从句需要倒装，所以D是错的。选B。

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　　I gave my housekeeper(管家)an old pair of trousers to wash and went into the study to rea　 D.My housekeeper usually examined my pockets before she washed any thing,but for some reason she failed to do so this time.As I was reading I suddenly remembered that there was a ten-pound note in the back pocket of the trousers I had given her to wash.I dropped my book right away and rushed to the bathroom.But it was too late.My housekeeper told me that my trousers had been in the washing-machine for ten minutes!I had the machine stop working at once and pulled my trousers as quickly as I coul　 D.I nearly burnt my fingers when I tried to unbutton(解开钮扣)my back pocket.To my great disappointment(失望),I discovered that it had already become a piece of white paper.I stood there,glaring(盯着看)at my housekeeper in silence(沉默)until she began to cry,begging me to pardon her and not to drive her off.

1.The writer of this passage usually ______.

［　　］

　 A.did the housekeeper for himself

　 B.had the housework done by his housekeeper

　 C.had the housework done by a family robot

　 D.had to do the housekeeper like a housewife

2.The housekeeper ______ her master’s clothes______.

［　　］

　 A.had…washed by another servant

　 B.washed…by hand

　 C.got…washed by a washing-machine

　 D.washed…in a basin

3.While reading,the writer suddenly remembered ______ a ten-pound note in a pocket of the trousers.

［　　］

　 A.to leave

　 B.that he would leave

　 C.have left

　 D.that he had left

4.After unbuttoning the back pocket,the writer found that ______.

［　　］

　 A.the ten-pound note became pieces of paper

　 B.it had turned into a piece of white paper

　 C.nothing had happened to the ten-pound note

　 D.the ten-pound note remained the same as before

5.From the passage we may conclude(推断)that the writer was ______ the housekeeper.

［　　］

　 A.very pleased with

　 B.very kind to

　 C.getting along well with

　 D.not kind enough to

阅读理解

　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?
[　　]
A．	Weekly allowance．
B．	Her earning s by picking crop s．
C．	Share s left by grandma．
D．	Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．
[　　]
A．	she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s
B．	enough money had been earned for her car
C．	the work wa s too hard for children like her
D．	she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．
[　　]
A．	16
B．	17
C．	18
D．	19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．
[　　]
A．	give the author freedom
B．	be unwilling to buy the author a car
C．	teach the author to learn self－reliance
D．	give the author a big surpri se

________ we had read your letter _____the true state of affairs.

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