“BANG”the door caused a reverberation．“Never set foot in this house again!”shouted father．With tears weiling(涌出)up in my eyes，I rushed out of the hofase and ran along the street．

    A young father who held a child in his arlzis walked past rile．I felt as if I saw my childhood from another space：happy and harmonious(和谐)

    But now I don’t know whether it is because I have grown up or because Dad is getting old．We are just like two people coming from two different worlds．It feels like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened．

    1 wandered the street，without a destination in my n'nnd．My heart was frozen oil this hot summer night．As I walked on there were fewer and fewer people m the streets，until I had only streets to keep me company When I finally reached the high rise apartment block in which I livegt，I saw that the light was still on．

     I thought to myself，“Is father waiting for rile．or is he still angry with me?”

    In fact，it was nothing．Perhaps，Dad was throwing some of his old stamps．Perhaps he thought they were useless．I never had th,e courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps．

    All the lights were off except father’S

    Dad was always 1ike this．Maybe he didn’t know bow to express himself．After shouting at me，he never showed any mercy or regret After an argument he will creep(蹑手蹑脚)up in my sleep and then tuck rile underneath the covers

    This was how he always was．Fie has been a leader for So long that telling everyone else what to do has become his second nature．

    The fight was still oil With the key in hand，1 was as nervous as 1 had ever been．At last，I decided to open the door．As soon as I opened the door tears ran down my cheeks．I suddenly realized that the iron door that l had imagined between us did not exist at all Love－it is second to none．

The underlined word“reverberation”refers to    ．

    A．an earthquake    B．a heavy Mow  ．

    C．a shake D．a sound forced back

When seeing a young father with a child in his arras．the writer might have

  the following feelings EXCEPT             

   A．She／He admired them very much

   B．She／He wished that the relation between him／her and his／her father could

    also be so harmonious

  C．She／He felt that happiness had been far away from him／her

   D．She／He felt disappointed with his／her father

Why do you think the father often shouts at his child?

    A．The father is getting older and older．

    B．The child had already grown up．

    C．They never agree with each other．

    D．The father has got used to doing that．

What conclusion can you draw after reading the text?

    A．The father treats his child in an unfair wav．

    B．The father is actually kind to his child

    C．The father is neither kind nor cruel to his child

    D．The father is always finding fault with his child．

One day last September，as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London，a blue bottle fell out of her purse．She quickly put it back in，but not before the camera recorded the event．Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle，but the next morning London's Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE：POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS．” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3，one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States．The pill，which is sold at about fifty dollars for a month's supply， contains a huge amount of caffeine，some green tea，and three common South American herbs that also act as stimulants（兴奋剂）．It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate．Mill ions of bottles have been sold，and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nation’s largest chain of vitamin shops．G．N．C．．Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS，Rite Aid，Wal-Mart，and other chains，and over the telephone and on the Internet．If you type “Zantrex” into Google，more than a hundred thousand pieces of information about it will appear．At any moment，there are scores of people selling it on eBay．

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3．however，is that it is far from unique．There are hundreds of similar products on the market today，and they are bought by millions of Americans．And though Zantrex's producer makes some exciting statements，so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator．Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain lost energy，and often without diet，exercise，or any other effort．

1．Britney Spears is a／an _________．

A．dancer                 B．singer                  C．athlete                    D．chemist

2．Which of the following is also a kind of weight-loss pill?

A．CVS                    B．Rite Aid               C．Wal-Mart               D．Anorex

3．The underlined part of the sentence in the first paragraph is most likely similar in meaning to _________．

A．it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is

B．you can't overstate the success of Zantrex-3

C．you can't think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3

D．Zantrex-3 is not very successful

4．From the second paragraph we know that _________．

A．Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weight-loss pills on the US market

B．Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US market

C．Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US market

D．there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market

5．The passage mainly tells us _________．

A．when Britney Spears was found taking weight-loss pills with her

B．how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA

C．weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA

D．Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market