As soon as he saw the policeman, the thief ran_____.
A、as quick as he could
B、as quickly as he could
C、as quick as he can
D、as quickly as he can
A、as quick as he could
B、as quickly as he could
C、as quick as he can
D、as quickly as he can
What do we learn about the man?
A.He saw the big tower he visited on TV.
B.He has visited the TV tower twice.
C.He has visited the TV tower once.
D.He will visit the TV tower in June.
听力原文: A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiancee. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to give her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea how to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: rings, gold watches, diamonds—but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off, it was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiancee. He had been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.
The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A brilliant idea struck him. The manager pointed to the comer of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said, "I can help you. I shall order my servant to pack it and take it to your fiancee. When he enters the room, he will drop it."
On the birthday of his fiancee the young man was very excited. Everything happened as had been planned. The servant brought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybody's face. However, when the vase was unpacked the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.
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A.In France.
B.In England.
C.In Germany.
D.In the United States.
The American Visitor
The big red American ear was much too wide for an English country road. When Paul Carson saw it coming towards him, he stopped his own car at the side, to make room for it to pass.
The big car went slowly past, so close that Paul could see its driver's face quite clearly. It was not a pretty face. The mouth was too large, and the ears were too small. The black hair was cut very short, and the eyes were hidden behind dark glasses.
"Where have I seen that face before?" Paul wondered. "Wait a minute. I remember now. It was in the newspaper." He turned to his sister. "Have you still got yesterday's paper, Nora? Or did you light the fire with it this morning? You usually do when I need it."
"No, I didn't," laughed Nora. "But it's rather dirty. I put the fish in it just now as they had no paper in the fish shop. It's on the floor at the back of the ear. I'll get it if you like."
She opened the back door and took the fish out of the paper. Paul turned quickly to the middle page and showed her the picture. It was partly covered with wet fish's blood, but the face was clear enough. It was not a pretty face. It had a large mouth and small ears, and its eyes were hidden behind dark glasses.
"Wanted by the police," read Paul, "for paying bills with useless cheques at hotels and shops in Margate, Brighton and other large seaside towns. The City Bank will pay fifty pounds to anyone who helps the police to catch this man."
"Does it say anything about an American care"
"No. But listen to this. He is English, but he usually talks and dresses like an American visitor. Perhaps it's a stolen car. Men like him use a different car every week."
"That's true. What are you going to do, Paul? Call the police?"
"No. I want to make sure first." He turned the car and began to drive back the same way. "Let's follow him and watch for a few minutes. What's his car number? Where is he staying? To get our fifty pounds, we must be able to tell the police as much as possible."
Soon they saw the red car in front of them. It seemed to be going very slowly.
"Don't go too near, Paul. If he sees us, we'll never catch him. Oh, be careful, he's stopping!"
Paul stopped his own car behind an old farm-cart at the roadside, so that the man could not see him. The door of the red car opened, and its driver got out and looked round. Then he started walking towards an old white house, which was half-hidden by trees a little way from the road.
"That's Seldon Manor, the Lightfoot's house!" said Paul. "They're away in Greece this summer, staying with her family. Dick Lightfoot married a Greek girl, you remember? The gardener is taking care of the place, but there's no one living there at present." He looked once more at the picture in the newspaper. Then he got out of the car.
"Listen, Nora. You must stay here with the car. I'm going across the field to the side of the house. He won't see me, but I'll be able to watch him. If you hear me call, drive up to the house as quickly as you can."
He left her and ran across the field. The man was coming away from the front door and walking round the side of the house. The door of the garden-room was open, and he went inside.
Paul Carson did not stop to think or to ask questions. He ran across the garden and shut the door. Then he fixed it so that it could be opened only from outside. There was no other door or window. The man was caught.
Paul did not wait to talk. He ran back to the car as fast as he could. Behind him he could hear the angry man trying to break the door open. But it was a strong door; he would soon get tired of hitting it.
When they reached the police station, Paul went in and quickly told the police officer all about th
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听力原文: I flew to San Francisco to take care of some business with Mr. Jorden. But as soon as I arrived, I got sick and couldn ' t meet with him. I had to call our appointment off. Then when I felt better, I thought about visiting him at his home, but he lived too far away. I tried to telephone him during office hours but he was busy. The receptionist said that Mr. Jarden would call me back. But he didn't. I gave up trying to make a new appointment because it would take more time and effort than I wanted to spend. A few days later, I saw a man on the street who looked like Mr. Jorden and I called out to him. It was someone else. When I returned to my hotel that day, I found a massage which said that Mr. Jarden had gone out of town for some sudden unexpected business. I was sorry I had missed seeing him. But I really enjoyed my sightseeing in San Francisco.
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A.He missed the appointment.
B.He arrived late.
C.He was sick.
D.He was very busy.
听力原文: You could say that Joseph Cornell became an artist because of his love of collecting. Cornell used to spend his free time exploring the street life of New York City in the 1920s. He soon started collecting old books, prints, postcards and even three-dimensional objects that he found in stores that sold used books.
Cornell also attended many museum shows, gallery openings and dance performances. He was influenced by a group of artists called the Surrealists who combined images in unusual and often strange ways.
Joseph Cornell started making his own works by cutting out different pictures and putting them together in creative and magical combinations. Soon, he started making boxes inside of which were carefully arranged pictures and objects. He worked on his art at night after finishing his day job. Later, when his boxes and images started selling and receiving public recognition, he worked on his art full time.
Joseph Cornell died in 1972. The Smithsonian exhibit showed almost two hundred works made during his forty-year career, one work is called "Soap Bubble Set". A box with a glass window shows a map of the moon, several pictures of sea creatures, two glass cups and two white pipes for smoking. In another box, Cornell combines an image of a cockatoo bird with a music box and watch faces.
Joseph Cornell once said his art was based on everyday experiences. He said that with his art he showed "the beauty of the commonplace". Visitors who came to this special exhibit found magic in regular objects-and even saw beauty in a box.
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A.He explored the night life of New York.
B.He collected used boxes from the streets.
C.He joined many art-related activities.
D.He organized an artistic group.
In the center of the main road into the town he placed a very large stone. Then he hid behind a tree end waited. Soon en old man came along with his cow.
"Who put this stone in the center of the road?" said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with sane difficulty he passed around the stone and continued tm his way. Another man came along and did the same thing, then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone in the center of the road but not one of them tried to remove it. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone and said. "The night will be very dark. Sane neighbor will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone."
The young man then began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his strength to remove it. How great was his surprise at last when, under the stone, he found a bag of money and a piece of paper with these words: "This money is for the first honest man who removes this stone from the road."
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A.How many people there were in the town.
B.Whether the poor people really needed his help.
C.If the roads of the village were in need of repair.
D.If the people of the town were worthy of his help.
1.Why didn't Mark and Dan go sailing together?()
A、Dan asked his brother to go instead
B、Dan was in some other place
C、Mark was in some other place
D、Mark would like to go with John
2.What made it possible for Mark to be found on the buoy?()
A、John told people where to look for him
B、John radioed to the Good Hope to get him
C、He shouted when he caught sight of the Good Hope
D、The captain saw him as the fog cleared
3.Mark tried to tie the boat to the buoy so that().
A、he could spend the night on it while John was looking for help
B、he and John could go sailing again when the fog cleared
C、it wouldn't be hit by other ships
D、he might be picked up by a passing ship
4.John and Mark became separated because().
A、there wasn't room for both John and Mark on the buoy
B、John couldn't control the boat and drifted away
C、Mark thought it safe to stay on the buoy but John didn't
D、John had to stay in the boat to radio for help
5.The word "he" in the last sentence refers to().
A、the captain that got the message
B、the captain that sent the message
C、John
D、Mark
The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.
“Why are you sad?” asked the ant.
“I'm the prisoner of a giant.”the girl told the ant.“He won't let me go until I've made three separate heaps of grain, barley(大麦)and rye(黑麦)out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together.”
“That will take you a month!” the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.
“I know,”the girl cried, “and if I haven't finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!”
“Don't cry,”the ant said, “my friends and I will help you.”
Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.
The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.
Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.
6.The ant was playing when it ran here and there.()
A.T
B.F
7.The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.()
A.T
B.F
8.The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.()
A.T
B.F
9.The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.()
A.T
B.F
10.The ant's friends saved the girl's life.()
A.T
B.F
Time spent in a bookstore can be enjoyable, if you 【S1】______
are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a
present. You may even have entered the shop just to
find shelters away a sudden shower. 【S2】______
Whatever the reasons, you can soon become totally
unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a
book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, even 【S3】______
this method of selection ought not to be followed, as
you might end up with a rather bored book. You soon 【S4】______
become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it
is only much later that you realise you have spent far far 【S5】______
much time there and must dash off to keep some
forgotten appointment without buying a book, of
course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday
life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop.
There are not many places where it is impossible to do 【S6】______
this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You
can wander round such places to your heart's content. If
it is a good shop, no assistant will approach to you with 【S7】______
the inevitable greeting: "Can I help you, sir?" You
needn't buy anything if you don't want. In a bookshop
an assistant should remain the background until you 【S8】______
have finished browsing. Then, only then, are his
services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out
where a particular section is, since when he has led you 【S9】______
there, the assistant should retire discreetly and look as 【S10】______
he is not interested in selling a single book.
【S1】
听力原文: My friend, Vernon Davies, kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox.
Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vernon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb up and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon's neighbors. "What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. Feeling like a complete fool, I replied, "I was just going to feed Mr. Davies's birds."
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A.His friend might have given him the wrong key.
B.He didn't know where the back door was.
C.He couldn't find the key in the mailbox.
D.It was too dark to put the key in the lock.