On second day, he had his car thoroughly ______ before embarking on the journey.

He took his brother's address, got into his car and started out. He drove for a long time, but he didn't find the house __22__ he stopped and asked somebody to help him.

"Go straight __23__ this road for two miles(英里)," the man said, "then turn left, and then take the second road on the right."

Mr. Parker went straight along the road and turned left after two miles, but then he got lost again. He drove for __24__ mile, and at last he saw a road on his right and stopped. A woman was coming __25__ him, so he said to her, "Excuse me, is this the second road on the right？"

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Passage Two

I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember something about the victory celebrations in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended. We had not suffered much from the war there. But both at home and at school I had become accustomed to the phrases "before the war" and "when the war's over". "Before the war", apparently, things had been better, though I was too young to understand why, except that there had been no bombs then, and people had eaten things like ice -cream and bananas, which I had only heard of . When the war was over we would go back to London, but this meant little to me. I did not remember what London was like.

What I remember now about VE (Victory in Europe) Day was the May evening. After dinner I said I wanted to see the bonfire (大火堆) , so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very high, and somehow people had collected some old clothes to dress the un- mistakable figure with the moustache (胡子) they had to put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames rose and soon swallowed the "guy". Everyone was cheering and shouting, and an old woman came out of her house with two chairs and threw them on the fire to keep it going.

I stood beside my father until the fire started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing, either. He had fought in the First World War and may have been remembering the end of that. At last he said, "Well, that's it, son. Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one."

40. Where did the author live before the Second World War？

A. In London.

B. In a small town.

C. In Europe.

D. In the countryside.

第三节 短文理解2

阅读下列短文，从[A]、[B]、[C]三个选项中选择一个正确答案。

Henry was in London for a holiday. He stayed in an old woman's house. One day he was not feeling well, so he went to the old woman and said, "I must go to see a doctor. Can you give me the name of a good one？"

The woman looked in a telephone book and then said, "Here is one, Dr John Crey, 2929196."

Henry said, "Thank you very ranch. Does he take a lot of money？"

"Well," said the woman," he always takes five pounds or the first visit, and then from the second time, he takes three pounds each time."

Henry wanted to save two pounds, so when he went to sec the doctor, he said, "I came here a few days ago, doctor." The doctor looked at his face for a moment and said, "Everything is just like last time. I remember I gave you some medicine. Please go on taking it. You'll be all right soon."

Henry went to London in order to ______ .

A．spend his holiday

B．see a doctor

C．visit the old woman

【C1】

A．made

B．done

C．given

D．had

Clint was playing a game with a girl. I sat in the corner watching him. I didn’t feel that I had whatever it took to get up and mix with others because of my self-esteem problem. Finally I got up the courage to order a drink for him. When he got it, he gave me the most dazzling smile. We spent the rest of the evening talking until I realized that it was almost morning. I figured that he was simply being nice to me because I had brought him a drink, but the next day he called and told me that he could not stopping thinking about me and that he wanted to meet my kids too.

About 3 months later, my divorce was final and Clint sat my boys down and asked them if it was all right with them if he asked me to marry him because he could not imagine life without the three of us anymore. I was so touched that he went to my boys and asked for their approval because they were the “men of the house” at the ripe old ages of 2 and They said yes and we have all been together even since. Clint gave me and my boys a second chance at a wonderful life. Not a day goes by that he doesn’t tell we are the best thing that ever has happened to him and that he loves us.

The writer’s first marriage was unsuccessful because ______.

A.her husband often woke her up at midnight

B.her husband kept criticizing her

C.she was unattractive

D.she had a self-esteem problem

When the writer asked for a divorce, her husband ______.A.told her that she would never find one who loved her as he did

B.delayed two years before giving her a reply

C.accused her of having an affair

D.said that she was unattractive and not worth loving

When the writer first met Clint, she felt that ______.A.she should have listened to her friend and met Clint earlier

B.Clint was a nice, dazzling young man

C.Clint could not be really interested in her

D.she would find true love in Clint

The writer was particularly touched by Clint because ______.A.he believed that at 2 and 4, the two kids were the “men of the house”

B.he said that he could not imagine a life without her and the kids

C.he loved the kids and asked for their approval of the marriage

D.he kept her company and talked with her until the next morning

The writer’s marriage to Clint is important to her mainly because ______.A.it made her kids happy, which is all she cared about

B.every day Clint would tell the writer that he loved her

C.it helped her to regain herself respect

D.it gave her and her sons a second chance to live a happy life

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

King was born on January 15, 1929. in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil rights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law and delivered his best known speech “I Have a Dream”. The “dream” is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. As a result, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.

Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Tuesday of every January is now a holiday in Luther King’s honour. He lives in people’s hearts forever.

Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.

A.T B.F

Martin Luther King was a black minister only.

A.T B.F

Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.

A.T B.F

The underlined word "delivered" in the second paragraph could be replaced by "gave

A.T B.F

The best title for this passage is "Civil Rights Law

A.T B.F

As it turned out, it was silver, not lead, that was to make Leadville' s fortune and wealth. Tabor knew little about mining himself, so he opened a general store, which sold everything from boots to salt, flour, and tobacco. It was his custom to " grubstake" prospective miners, in other words, to supply them with food and supplies, or "grub", while they looked for ore, in return for which he would get a share in the mine if one was diswvered. He did this for a number of years, hut no one that he aided ever found anything of value

Finally one day in the year 1878, so the story goes, two miners came in and asked for 'grub". Tabor had decided to quit supplying it because he had lost too much money that way. These They "Oh help yourself One more time won't make any difference," He said and went on selling persistent, however, and Tabor was busy to argue with them shoes and hats to other customers. The two miners took $17 worth of supplies, in return for which they gave Tabor a one-third interest in their findings. They picked a barren place on the mountainside and began to dig. After nine days they struck a rich vein of silver Tabor bought the shares of the other two men, and so the mine belonged to him alone. This mine, known as the "Pittsburgh Mine," made$1 300 000 for Tabor in return for his $17 investment

Later Tabor bought the Matchless Mine on another barren hillside just outside the town for $117 000 This turned nut to be even more fabulous than the Pittsburgh, yielding $35 000 worth of silver per day at one time Leadville grew Tabor became its first mayor, and later became lieutenant governor of the state

36. Leadville got its name for the following reasons EXCEPT because _________

A. Tabor became its leading citizen

B. great deposits of lead is expected to be found there

C. it could bring good fortune to Tabor

D. it was renamed

37. The word "grubstake" in paragraph 2 means_______________

A. to supply miners with food and supplies

B. to open a general store

C. to do one's contribution to the development of the mine

D. to supply miners with food and supplies and in return get a share in the mine, if one was discovered

38. Tahor made his first fortune_____________

A. by supplying two prospective miners and getting in return a one-third interest in the findings

B. because he was persuaded by the two miners to quit supplying

C. by buying the shares of the others

D. as a land speculator

39. The underlying reason for Tabor's life career is________________-

A. purely accidental

B. based on the analysis of miner' s being very poor and their possibility of discovering profitable mining site

C. through the help from his second wife

D. he planned well and accomplished targets step by step

40. If this passage is the first part of an article, who what might be introduced in the following part？_________________

A. Tabor's life

B. Tabor's second wife, Elizabeth McCourt

C. Other colorful characters

D Tabor's other careers