高中英语故事类阅读试题

Audrey Hepburn（奥黛丽·赫本）won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953,But she is remembered as much for her aid work as for her acting.
Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey’s father was British and her mother was Dutch. Audrey was sent to live at a British school for part of her childhood . During World war Ⅱ , she lived and studied in the Netherlands .Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks . Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college. But when she returned to London after the war she realized she wasn’t going to be a ballerina（芭蕾舞女演员）. So she began taking acting parts in stage shows. Later she began to get small parts in movies.
But it was Audrey Hepburn’s move to America that brought her true fame .In 1951 she played the character“Gigi”in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise. Two years later, Roman Holiday made her a star at the age of 24.
Audrey make more than 25 movies. Among her most popular roles was Hoolly Golinghtly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961. There years later she played Eliza Doolittle in my Fair Lady.
She was married two times and had one by each husband. In 1989,the UN Children’s Fund named Audrey a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF(联合国儿童基金会) projects .The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to gain money and support for UNICEF projects.
Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War II. She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid . She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from colon cancer.
In Paragraph 1,“her aid work”means        .

A．winning an Academy Award as Best Actress

B．taking acting parts in stage shows

C．making her own movies

D．acting as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF

The reason why Audrey lived and studied in the Netherlands was that      .

A．she wanted to be a ballerina	B．her parents were from Britain
C．it was safe there	D．the education there was excellent

We can infer from the passage that      .

A．Audrey’s parents lived in Germany during World War II

B．Audrey lived in America in the 1950s

C．Audrey was made to give up dancing

D．the character“Gigi”in the Broadway play was her most popular role

      is NOT mentioned in the passage about Audrey Hepburn

A．Marriage

B．Identity

C．Contribution

D．Religion

      is the right order for Audrey’s life.
①The first time she began to play in movies
②She returned to London from the Netherlands
③She won an Academy Award as Best Actress
④She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects
⑤She played a part in My Fair Lady

A．②①③⑤④

B．①②③⑤④

C．②①⑤③④

D．①②⑤③④

John Blanchard was studying the crowd making their way through the station. He was looking for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose.
When reading a book in a Florida library a year before, John became interested not in the contents of the book, but in the notes penciled in the margin(（空白处）. The handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and beautiful mind. He discovered the former owner’s name in the front of the book: Miss Hollis Maynell.
He located her address and wrote a letter introducing himself. The next day he was shipped overseas to serve in the army. During the next year,they grew to know each other through the mail and their friendship developed. John requested a photograph, but she refused, saying if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what
she looked like. When the day finally came for him to return home, their first meeting was suggested-7:00 p.m. at the Grand Central Station in New York.
She wrote, “You’ll recognize me by the red rose I wear on my coat.” So now John was in the station to meet the girl with a rose.
As a pretty and slim girl in green came over, John noticed her blue eyes like flowers in spring. He walked directly towards her, entirely forgetting she was not wearing a rose. As John came closer to her, he saw another woman with a red rose stood nearby. Well past 40, this woman had graying hair done under a worn hat. Seeing the girl in green walk quickly away, John felt as if he were split(劈开) in two. He desired to follow that girl, but longed for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and supported him.
The woman looked gentle and sensible. John went to her, saying, “I’m Captain John Blanchard. You must be Miss Maynell. I am glad to meet you here. May I take you to dinner?”
She replied with a smile, “I don’t know what this is about. But the lady in green who just went by, begged me to wear this rose on my coat. She said if you asked me out to dinner, I’d tell you she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”

John was eager to know the former owner of the book because      .

A．he was very interested in the contents of the book

B．he was impressed by the notes written by the owner

C．the book offered him practical and valuable advice

D．there was address of the former owner in the book

What happened to John after getting in touch with Miss Hollis Maynell?

A．He began to serve the army abroad.	B．He was seriously wounded in the war
C．He went on a business tour in Europe	D．He asked Miss Maynell for a photo

What do we know about the woman with a rose?

A．She was Miss Maynell’s close companion

B．She was a conductor working in the station

C．She knew nothing about John’s appointment

D．She was paid to carry out a love test on John

Which would be the best title of the text?

A．The Meeting in the Station	B．The Girl with a Rose
C．A Soldier and a Girl	D．A Meeting of the Heart

Early one morning the subinspector at a station at the other end of the town rang me. An elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do something about it?
I did not know what I could do, but I got onto a horse and started out.  I took my gun, maybe too small to kill an elephant, but I thought the noise might scare him. Various local people stopped me on the way and told me about the elephant's doings.
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one. It had been chained up but last night it had broken its chain and escaped. Its owner, had set out to run after it, but had taken the wrong direction. He was now twelve hours' journey away, and in the morning the elephant had suddenly appeared in the town. It had already destroyed somebody's bamboo hut (棚屋), killed a cow and turned over fruitstalls.
I came round the hut and saw a man's dead body sprawling in the mud.  He was an Indian, and he could not have been dead many minutes. The people said that the elephant caught him with its trunk, put its foot on his back and grounded him into the earth. This was the rainy season and he was lying on his stomach in the soft mud, the__peacebreaker standing beside, looking innocent.
As I lifted my gun, I hesitated a few seconds. Then I fired. That was a shot that did for him.
You could see the pain of it knock the last strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time. And then down he came, with a crash that shook the ground.
Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?

A．He was an Indian.

B．He knew elephants well.

C．He was not a local villager.

D．He was the owner of the elephant.

The elephant made so much trouble because ________.

A．its owner treated him cruelly

B．it got out of control

C．it hated the village people

D．it was a wild elephant

The underlined words “the peacebreaker” in Paragraph 4 refer to ________.

A．the elephant	B．the dead man
C．the author	D．the subinspector

It can be inferred that the author felt ________ when he shot the elephant.

A．excited	B．sad
C．frightened	D．happy

I was driving home one evening about 5, stuck in traffic, and the car started to die— I hardly managed to get into a gas station, glad only that I would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow truck(拖车). Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the “ Quickie Mart” building, then suddenly she slipped(滑倒) on some ice and fell down, so I got out to see if she was okay.
When I got there, it looked like she had been overcome by weep than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked exhausted with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up, and I picked it up and gave it to her. It was a coin.
At that moment, everything came into focus for me: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban packed full of stuff and three kids in the back, and the gas pump(汽油泵) reading $4.95.
I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying “I don’t want my kids to see me crying,” so we stood at the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to California for Christmas and that things were very hard for her right now.
I took out my credit card and swiped(刷磁卡) it through the card reader on the pump so that she could fill up her car completely, and I bought 2 big bags of food for her kids in the car who attacked it like wolves. While it was fueling, she asked, “So, are you an angel or something?” I said, “At this time of year, angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses common people.”
It was unbelievable to be part of someone else’s miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when I got in my car it started right away and got me home with no problem. Sometimes, angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter(摆动) of their wings.
. Caught in traffic, the author still felt happy because      .

A．she could fill up her car to get home in time

B．the woman who needed help was waiting there

C．she could find a warm place to wait

D．she could do something for others in the gas station

. The young woman cried because     .

A．her situation was very terrible	B．her kids wouldn’t listen to her
C．she was too tired	D．she fell down and got injured

. It can be inferred from the passage that    .

A．the author was driving carelessly on the way home

B．the young woman was interested in long driving

C．the young woman didn’t want to see her kids crying

D．the kids were extremely hungry at that time

. According to the passage, we can say that the author     .

A．was a kind person	B．liked to deal with others’ business
C．had no thought for others	D．was a real angel

My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said," How would you like to go to Eton?"
"You bet, "I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class, our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100.
This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict（冲突）with his fear of drawing attention to himself.
It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow, and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging（刺痛）and my hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.
"Oh, he doesn't want to go away," said my mother, "You shouldn't go on like this.” "It's up to him," said my father. "He can make up his own mind.”
The house the writer's family lived in was _______ .

A．the best they could afford

B．right for their social position

C．for showing off

D．rather small

His father sold his Roils-Royce because _______ .

A．it made him feel uneasy

B．it was too old to work well

C．it was too expensive to possess

D．it was too cheap

What was the writer's reaction to the idea of going to Eton?

A．He was very unhappy.	B．He didn't believe it.
C．He was delighted.	D．He had mixed feelings.

We can know from the passage that _______ .

A．Children who can go to Eton are very famous

B．Children can go to Eton if they will

C．It is very difficult for a child to get admitted by Eton

D．Children don't have the right to decide whether they will go to Eton

A few days ago my wife sent me out to buy something. When I came home, I handed(交给) her a paper bag and said, “Here are the apples you wanted.” She looked in the bag, and then she looked at me. “I told you,” she said slowly, “to buy some eggs.”
I felt worried about my absent-mindedness, so I went to see a doctor. He was a very kind man. “I have seen many people like you. It’s nothing to worry about,” he said. “If you know you are absent-minded, you are all right. But if you do not know you’re absent-minded, you may be really in trouble.”
“Many famous people were absent-minded,” the doctor told me. “Thomas Edison(爱迪生)was standing in line(排队) one day to pay his taxes(税). When he arrived at the window, he found that he had forgotten his own name. He had to ask the man who was behind him to tell him who he was.”
I felt much better and got up to leave. “Thank you, doctor,” I said. “How much do I have to pay you?”
“Ten dollars for the check-up(检查),” the doctor said.
“But doctor, I did not have a check-up!”
For a moment the doctor looked puzzled. Then he said, “Oh, yes, it was the patient before you who had a check-up. How absent-minded I am!”
It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that when the author’s wife heard what her husband told her, she was ______.

A．excited

B．surprised

C．sad

D．proud

The doctor took Edison’s story for example ______.

A．to show absent-mindedness is common among people

B．because he liked telling stories

C．to make the author laugh

D．to make fun of Edison

The underlined word “absent-mindedness” in the second paragraph probably means ______.

A．a feeling of anger

B．a feeling of sadness

C．an emotion (情绪) of excitement

D．a trouble in which people often forget this or that

According to the passage, who was (were) absent-minded?

A．Only the author.	B．The author’s wife.
C．The author and the doctor.	D．The doctor alone.

A Frenchman went to a small Italian town and was staying with his wife at the best hotel there. One night, he went out for a walk alone. It was late and the small street was dark and quiet. Suddenly he felt someone behind him. He turned his head and saw an Italian young man who quickly walked past him. The man was nearly out of sight when the Frenchman suddenly found that his watch was gone. He thought that it must be the Italian who had taken his watch. He decided to follow him and get back the watch.
Soon the Frenchman caught up with the Italian. Neither of them understood the other’s language. The Frenchman frightened the Italian with his fist (拳头) and pointed at the Italian’s watch. In the end the Italian gave up his watch to the Frenchman.
When he returned to the hotel, the Frenchman told his wife what had happened. He was greatly surprised when his wife pointed to the watch on the table. Now he realized that by mistake he had robbed the watch and it was the Italian’s.
The Frenchman went to a small Italian town _______.

A．with his wife	B．alone
C．with his friend	D．with an Italian

One night he went out for _______ alone.

A．a ride

B．a walk

C．a drink

D．rest

Suddenly he found his_______ was gone.

A．watch

B．money

C．book

D．ring

The Italian gave up his watch to him at last because ________.

A．he had stolen the watch from the Frenchman.

B．he understood what the Frenchman wanted

C．he had picked up the watch on his w ay from work

D．he was afraid of the Frenchman

Who was robbed of the watch on earth?

A．The Frenchman was.	B．The Italian was.
C．Both of them was.	D．Neither of them was.

A man was selling medicine at a fair（集市）．At first he sold bottles of a cure（药剂）for colds（感冒）for just a dollar a bottle．
Many people wanted to buy it and the man's young assistant moved quickly through the crowd collecting money and handing out bottles of the cure．
Then，when he had a big crowd， the man held up a very small bottle．
“And now，ladies and gentlemen，he shouted，“Here is the medicine you have been waiting for．The cure for old age．Drink just one bottle of this and you will live forever．
“And，ladies and gentlemen，the man continued，“I'm not going to charge（向……要价……）you a hundred dollars a bottle for this wonderful medicine．I'm not going to charge you fifty dollars a bottle．I'm not going to charge you twenty-five dollars a bottle．Now，ladies and gentlemen，I'm going to charge you just ten dollars a bottle． Think，my friends，for ten dollars you can live forever．
Most of the people in the crowd did not believe this．
One person shouted，“If it can make you live forever，why don't you drink it？Then another person cried，“Yes， you look as if you're at least sixty years old．
“Thank you，sir，thank you，the man answered，“I'm so glad you said that． My real age is three hundred and twenty-nine．
The crowd laughed at this but there were still some people who wanted to believe the man ．One of them spoke to the man's assistant as she passed by，“Is that true？he asked．“Is he three hundred and twenty-nine？
“Don't ask me，the assistant said，“I've only worked for him for a hundred and fifty years．
What did the man sell at first at the fair？   

A．bottles

B．a cure for colds

C．a cure for old age

D．a medicine that made people live forever

How much did the man charge for the cure for old age？

A．one dollar a bottle	B．twenty-five dollars a bottle
C．fifty dollars a bottle	D．ten dollars a bottle

What does the word “assistant” mean in this passage？

A．仆人

B．朋友

C．助手

D．同伴

What does this passage really mean？

A．The man is not honest，and so is his assistant

B．The cure for old age is very useful and not so expensive． ．

C．The cheaper the medicine is，the more people will buy．

D．The two men are very honest，and they would like to help people live forever．

Gabby Logan was a gymnast when she was young. She is now the 39-year-old mother of seven-year-old twins, Reuben and Lois. The other day on TV she was dressed in a new swimsuit, which was designed to show off her nice figure, which was admired by a great number of television viewers.
Gabby, who won high praise for her television show of the Olympics, has asked the woman of the whole nation to go to the swimming pool, saying the secret of her figure is regular swimming. She is also making advertisements for the new Sculpture Swimwear of Speedo, an international swimsuit company, to help women find the perfect swimsuit.
Gabby said, "We all felt uneasy about getting into our swimwear at first. But we should be excited by the sporting achievements we have seen at the Olympics this summer. To get ourselves a little healthier, have a try and go to the swimming pool. " Then she said," Swimming is the perfect exercise if you want to feel healthy or simply relax. I find that going for a swim always clears my mind and also gives me some valuable 6 my time'. I like the calm of swimming which I can't experience when I am not in the pool. "
A study by Speedo, an International company, which sells swimsuits, reported the biggest reason why women were put off going to the pool was the way they looked in swimwear. More than half of the l,000 women surveyed have been reduced to tears when trying on swimwear. And 48 percent said they felt too self-conscious to go swimming with their children. Sally Polak, from Speedo, said, " We're hoping to give women the courage and confidence to get back into the water. "
What can we learn about Gabby Logan?

A．She has two children of the same age.

B．She appeared on TV to show off her nice figure.

C．She was a swimmer when she was young.

D．She took part in the Olympic Games when she was young.

What is the main reason why Gabby has a nice figure?

A．She is a gymnast.

B．She often swims.

C．She has a peaceful mind

D．She wears Sculpture Swimwear.

The biggest reason why most women were stopped from swimming is _    .

A．their shy mind of wearing the swimsuit

B．their being too busy with their housework

C．their not being comfortable in the swimsuit

D．their being afraid of their child seeing them wear less

What is the author's purpose of writing the text?

A．To introduce a famous woman.

B．To discuss a TV show of the Olympics.

C．To report a way of keeping a good figure.

D．To encourage women to go swimming.

At the age of ten I could not figure out what this Elvis Presley guy had that the rest of us boys did not have．I mean，he had a head，two arms and two legs，just like the rest of us．About nine o’clock on Saturday morning I decided to ask Eugene Correthers，one of the older boys，what it was that made this Elvis guy so special．He told me that it was Elvis’ wavy hair and the way he moved his body．
About half an hour later all the boys in the orphanage(孤儿院)were called to the main dining-room and told we were all going to downtown Jacksonville，Florida to get a new pair of Buster Brown shoes and a haircut．That is when I got this big idea，which hit me like a ton of bricks. If the Elvis hair cut was the big secret，then that’s what I was going to get．
A11 the way to town I told everybody, including the matron(女管家)from the orphanage who was taking us to town，that I was going to look just like Elvis Presley and that I would learn to move around just like he did and that I would be rich and famous one day, just like him．
When I got my new Buster Brown shoes, I could hardly wait for my new hair cut and now that I had my new Busier Brown shoes I would be very happy to go back to the orphanage and practice being like Elvis.
We finally arrived at the big barber shop，where they cut our hair for free because we were orphans(孤儿)．I looked at the barber and said，“I want an Elvis hair cut. Can you make my hair like Elvis?”I asked him，with a big smile on my face．“Let's just see what we can do for you，little man，”he said．I was so happy when he started to cut my hair．Just as he started to cut my hair, the matron signed for him to come over to where she was standing．She whispered something into his ear and then he shook his head，like he was telling her “No”．Then he told me they were not allowed to give us Elvis hair cuts．Then I saw my hair falling onto the floor．
In the author’s eyes，Elvis Presley was_________．

A．disgusting	B．admirable
C．ambitious	D．dynamic

From the passage，we can know that______________．

A．Buster Brown was more appealing than Elvis Presley

B．An Elvis hair cut cost the orphans a lot of money

C．The matron did not want the boy to have an Elvis hair cut

D．The barber was unwilling to give the boy an Elvis hair cut

We can learn from the underlined sentence that the boy was______．

A．excited to have an Elvis hair cut

B．worried to think about the secret

C．anxious to remove the ton of bricks

D．careful to seize the chance

How would the boy probably feel when he walked out of the barber shop?

A．Delighted．	B．Guilty．
C．Self-satisfied．	D．Depressed．

I was in a shopping mall recently, and I decided to go and get a cup of tea. As I was making my way to the coffee shop, I noticed an old gentleman rather poorly dressed sitting on a bench nearby. I knew from the first sight that he was in need of some kind of help. He had a little lunch in front of him and was wholeheartedly enjoying it.
There was a young man in front of me in the line also waiting to be served. The young man handed the servant a twenty-dollar bill and asked for an orange juice as well as a favor. The servant looked at the young man with a little surprise, not fully understanding him. The young man asked her to give the juice to the old gentleman eating his lunch outside on the bench. The young man also told her that he would be watching every second so that she would be completely safe at all times. Later, there was a wonderful exchange between the waitress and the old man. I only wished I had taken a photo of the smiles on both of their faces.
As I was thinking about this event later on, I wondered why the young man didn’t just perform this act of kindness himself. I thought he was hoping that this act of kindness might inspire others to do something for the old man as well. Thinking of the happy smiles on the old man’s face, I felt how worthwhile it is to help others.
The underlined word “favor” in Para. 2 refers to________.

A．passing the young man a cup of orange juice

B．buying lunch for the old man

C．exchanging meals with the old man

D．giving the juice to the old man

Which of the following can be used to describe the young man?

A．Kind and considerate	B．Generous and proud.
C．Rich and friendly.	D．Humorous and helpful.

In the author’s opinion, the young man asked the servant to take the juice to the old man so that____________.

A．the old man could probably accept it

B．he would become famous for his good deed

C．more people would be inspired to do good deeds

D．he would become a friend of the servant

The world’s richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.
Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit(红迪网), the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French, Arabic or Chinese.
He said: “I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A’s and I guess it helps my vocabulary. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn’t keep it up.”
Gates, who is worth $79.3 billion, praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese. “Mark Zuckerberg amazingly leamed Chinese and did a Q&A with Chinese students—unbelievable, isn’t it?” he said.
This isn’t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language. He also showed his habits at home and personal insights.
Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife, Melinda, would likely want Samuel L. Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(传记片).
He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street.
As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯)28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time, he said he is pretty basic when it comes to so ending on clothes and food, but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍)when he plays tennis.
When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break. “Don’t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting. You will regret it in the morning. Pam still working on this problem,” he said.
Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．An Interview with Bill Gates

B．How Bill Gates Succeeded

C．Bill Gates’ Regret

D．The Richest Billionaire

The underlined part in Paragraph 8 may actually mean that_____.

A．it is important to lay a good foundation of life

B．food and clothing are basic needs for people’s life

C．he doesn’t spend much money on food and clothes

D．he never cares about buying food and clothing

What advice did Bill Gates give?

A．Avoid staying up too late.

B．Be a good language learner.

C．Do the dishes yourself at home.

D．Pick up the $100 bills in the streets.

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook

B．Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times.

C．Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high schoo1.

D．Bill Gates’ wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates.

Ben and his wife Susan were on their way to have dinner with their friends. It was a dark，windy night, and they did not know the way very well. They drove through a town until they found what they thought was the road to Dorling，where their friends lived. But it soon became clear that they were not on the road to Dorling at all. The road that they were on was getting narrower，and there were no other cars on it. The wind was blowing harder with every minute that passed.
They came to a small village .They drove past a church and then two houses without lights on. There was nobody about to tell them where they were，or where the road went. Just then，Ben saw a telephone box，twenty meters or so further on. While he walked back along the road to see if there was a name outside the church，Susan telephoned their friends and told them that they were still on their way.
Their friends were just saying that the dinner was already getting rather cold，when Ben came back to the telephone box，his head down against the wind. He said that there was a tree lying across the road，and that the telephone lines were down. Susan heard nothing more from their friends about the dinner.
Some time later Ben and Susan found they took a wrong road because ________.

A．their friends lived nearer than they drove

B．the road was getting narrower and their car alone was on it

C．the hard wind made them get lost

D．the road was not the same as before

Ben went to the church to see if there was a name outside because ________.

A．he was sure to find some people who knew Dorling

B．he hoped to get help from there

C．he wanted to telephone his friends where they were

D．he wanted to stay there for the night

Susan could hear nothing more from their friends because ________.

A．the telephone lines were broken by a tree

B．the strong wind made too much noise

C．they got angry

D．they had all left

From the passage we know ________.

A．Ben and his wife often went out for dinners

B．Ben and his wife lived in the country

C．both Ben and his wife were shortsighted(近视的)

D．Ben and his wife seldom(很少) went to Dorling

On a sunny day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.
Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search for a football. Once they'd rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for it and the boat was out of control.
Tim knew it would soon be swallowed by the waves. "Everything went quiet in my head," Tim recalls(回忆). "I was trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line."
Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water. Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress. "At one point, I considered turning back," he says. "I wondered if I was putting my life at risk." After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough to yell to the boys, "Take down the umbrella!" Christian made much effort to take down the umbrella. Then Tim was able to catch up and climb aboard the boat. He took over rowing, but the waves were almost too strong for him.
"Let's aim for the pier(码头)," Jack said. Tim turned the boat toward it. Soon afterward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink. "Can you guys swim?" he cried. "A little bit," the boys said. Once they were in the water, Tim decided it would be safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs. Tim swan toward land as water washed over the boys' faces.
“Are we almost there?” they asked again and again. "Yes," Tim told them each time. After 30minutes, they reached the pier.
Why did the two boys go to the sea?

A．To go boat rowing.

B．To get back their football.

C．To swim in the open water.

D．To test the umbrella as a sail.

What does "it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The beach.	B．The water.
C．The boat.	D．The wind.

Why did Tim raise his head regularly?

A．To take in enough fresh air.

B．To consider turning back or not.

C．To check his distance from the boys.

D．To ask the boys to take down the umbrella.

How did the two boys finally reach the pier?

A．They were dragged to the pier by Tim.

B．They swam to the pier all by themselves.

C．They were washed to the pier by the waves.

D．They were carried to the pier by Tim on his back.

Mr. Jackson lived in the center of London but he had a hotel near the airport. There a lot of foreigners stayed for night. He didn’t know any other language but English and he found it difficult for him to understand the foreign visitors. Sometimes he had to use the gesture to talk with them, and tried his best to make himself understood. But he was often misunderstood (误解) and it brought him a lot of trouble. A friend of his who taught a few foreign languages in a university would teach him. He was happy and studied hard. At first he learned some, but soon he found it wasn’t very easy to remember the words and expressions. His friend advised him to write down the useful expressions in his notebook so that he could use them when necessary. He did as he was told. He found it helpful for him to do so.
One evening there were plenty of people in the dining-room. They were all busy eating something except a Japanese. He was wandering (徘徊) there and waiting for his wife who was dressing herself up upstairs. Mr. Jackson thought to himself, “ The man wants to eat something but he doesn’t know any English. Let me help him.”
As he knew only a little Japanese, he had to bring out his notebook and showed it to the man, pointing to the sentence “I’m hungry.”
The Japanese had a look at it and gave him two pounds and left.
Mr. Jackson knew only English because        .

A．he was an English student

B．he had never been abroad

C．he couldn’t learn by himself

D．he hadn’t studied any foreign languages

Mr. Jackson had to use the gesture because        .

A．he wanted the foreign visitors to understand him

B．he wanted to learn the foreign languages from the visitors

C．he hoped to know the foreign visitors’ custom

D．he hoped more foreign visitors would stay for night in his hotel

As not all foreign visitors understand his gesture, sometimes Mr. Jackson         to communicate with them.

A．succeeded

B．lost heart

C．failed

D．gave up

      , so he decided to help the man.

A．Mr. Jackson thought the Japanese wanted to stay for night

B．Mr. Jackson thought the Japanese was not hungry

C．Mr. Jackson knew the Japanese was waiting for his wife.

D．Mr. Jackson was sure the Japanese couldn’t speak English

The Japanese thought        , so he gave him two pounds.

A．Mr. Jackson was a beggar.	B．Mr. Jackson was a translator.
C．Mr. Jackson could help him.	D．Mr. Jackson could ring his wife up.