阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的选项中，选出一个最佳选项，并把它的编号填在答题卷上。

31   boys go to school every day __32_ taxi. One day one of the boy says  33  , “There’s a test this morning. Let’s __34_ to school late. Then we won’t have to take the test.”

“_35___can we say to the teacher?” the second boy says, “He will be  36  . We’ll need a good excuse(借口).”

The boys think for a few minutes, and the third boy says, “Let’s   37   him that our taxi had a flat tyre（漏气的轮胎）.”

“That’s _38__ good idea.” The fourth boy answers. “ We’ll tell him that.” They arrive at school an hour later. The test is __39.

“40  are you late?” asks the teacher. “The __41__is finished.”

“Our taxi had a flat tyre,” one of the  42  says. All the boys say, “Yes.”

The teacher says, “Write on   43  the answer   44  this question:

  45  tyre was flat?”.

(    ) 31  A. Two          B. Three              C. Four

(    ) 32  A. by            B. on            C. in 

(    ) 33  A. friendly        B. loudly             C. happy

(    ) 34  A. to get         B. get               C. getting

(    ) 35  A. Who          B. What                C. How

(    ) 36  A. angry            B. angrily              C. gladly

(    ) 37  A. tells              B.tell              C. telling

(    ) 38  A. a             B. an                 C. the

(    ) 39  A. over                 B. finish                 C. begin

(    ) 40  A. what               B.why           C. which

(    ) 41  A. school         B. class                 C. test

(    ) 42  A. boy              B. boys          C. girls

(    ) 43  A. a paper   B. a piece paper   C. a piece of paper

(    ) 44  A. of             B. in              C. to

(    ) 45  A. which        B.  whose          C. who