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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～25各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案．

　One Saturday afternoon in February, 1943, a farmer in Mexico stopped 　1 　for a moment and looked across his field of corn. 　2 　he saw a thin line of white smoke curling up (旋转) out of his field, about 200 feet 　3 　he stood. As he went toward the smoke to see 　4 　, he heard a strange 　5 　. The line of smoke 　6 　bigger. It looked 　7 　some great force were pushing it up into the sky.

　The farmer 　8 　home to get his wife. While he was urging his wife to hurry 　9 　the house, the earth 　10 　violently (剧烈地). When he stood up 　11 　the earth stopped shaking, he looked across the field and saw that 　12 　flames (火焰) were rising from his cornfield. A volcano 　13 　.

　They hurried across 　14 　earth to the village of Paricutin, 　15 　was near their farm. They found the village in ruins (废墟) and the road from the village 16 frightened people 　17 　to safety.

　Paricutin did not become dark that night. The volcano lighted up the sky for miles around. Flames rushed 　18 　the ground. The volcano hurled (喷出) hot stones a thousand feet 　19 　the air. Great explosions shook the earth and heavy black ashes (灰) fell from the sky.

　But that was not all. Next there was lava (熔岩). 　20 　the third evening a stream of lava began to boil up from the centre of the volcano. It 　21 　slowly across the valley, 　22 　certain death to everything that could not move from its path.

　Government officials, scientists, newspaper reporters and photographers rushed into the valley. They went as 　23 　to the fire 　24 　and stayed there for several days, 　25 　the new volcano which people now call Paricutin, after the village.

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　Tom's old car was 　1 　slow that it took him 　2 　to get to the 　3 　．It was five minutes late, and 　4 　in the theatre, it seemed, was 　5 　one of the rows． Half the people in the row had 　6 　to let him 　7 　, and he was embarrassed（不好意思） to cause 　8 　．Then when he 　9 　comfortably, he began to worry about 　10 　he had to turn off 　11 　of his car． If he 　12 　, the battery （电池） would run down by the time the show was 　13 　．Finally he could stand there 　14 　．

　Even more embarrassed 　15 　, he stood up and began to move 　16 　the people．“ 　17 　”．He said to 　18 　as the passed．

　His lights were 　19 　．All his worry has been 　20 　．When he 　21 　the theatre he felt he just couldn't trouble 　22 　again and decided 　23 　at the back of the theatre, rather than 　24 　them to rise 　25 　．

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　　Having passed what I considered the worst obstacle （障碍） , our spirits 1 . We made our way towards the left cliff （悬崖） . Where the going was better, though 2 steeper （steep陡峭） . Here we found 3 snow, as most of it seemed 4 blown off the mountain. We could see 5 mountains in the distance because 6 were forming all round us.

　　About one o'clock a storm 7 suddenly. We should have noticed its coming but we were concentrating on cutting steps and before we had time to do anything, we were 8 by snow. We could not move up or down and had to wait motionless , getting colder and colder. 9 my hood （兜帽） , my nose and cheeks were nearly frozen but I dare not 10 a hand out of my glove to 11 them.

　　After two hours of this, I realized we would have to do something to 12 being frozen to death. We stood up from time to time through the snow. I had 13 the outline of a buttress （扶垛）just above us. Our only 14 was to climb up to the buttress, and dig out a platform at the foot of it on which we could put up our 15 . We climbed to this place and started to cut away the ice. At first my companion seemed to regard this situation as 16 but gradually the wind died away and he 17 up. At last we made a platform big enough to pitch the tent , and we did this as best as we could. We 18 into our sleeping bags and fell asleep , 19 that we were lucky to be still 20 .

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　　Three men came to Dover Station at about nine o'clock one evening. They asked the assistant what time the next train was for London. The assistant said, “You've just 1 one. They go every hour. The next one is at ten o'clock. ”“That is 2 ,”they said, “we'll go and have a drink.”So they went to the nearest bar. A minute or two after ten o'clock, they came 3 and said to the assistant, “Has the train gone?” “Yes,” he said, “it went at ten o'clock 4 I told you. The next is at eleven o'clock.”

　　“That's OK,” they said, “we'll go and have another 5 .”So they went back to the bar.

　　They missed the eleven o'clock train in 6 way, and the assistant said, “Now, the next train is the 7 one; If you miss that, you 8 to London tonight.”

　　Twelve o'clock came, and the last train 9 out, when 10 of them came out of the bar running as hard as they 11 . Two of them got into a carriage just 12 the train was leaving but the third one didn't run 13 , and the train went out leaving him 14 . He stood there looking at the train and 15 , as if 16 a train was the best joke (玩笑) in the world. The assistant went up to him and said, “I told you that this was the last train. Why didn't you come 17 ?”

　　The man couldn't answer because of laughing. He laughed 18 the tears came into his eyes. Then he said, “Did you see those two fellows 19 into the train and leave me here?”

　　“Yes, I saw them,” said the assistant.

　　“Well, I was the one who was going to London; they only came 20 to see me off!”

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