Carol Evans hated to be wrong．If she made a mistake，she would never admit it．

    One day，she was walking along the street when she met a woman．83 She looked at the woman very carefully．Then she said，“Kate Foster! Well，Well，I haven’t seen you for ten years．”She looked at the woman up and down．“But you have changed．Kate．”She went on．“You used to be fat．but now you are thin．"

    Carol smiled at her,“But you look well and it is good to see you again．”She took the  woman’s hand and shook it．

    “But．you have changed．”She said．“I have never known anyone who changed so    much．84 You used to have thick hair but now it’s very thin．You didn’t use to wear glasses    but now you are wearing really thick ones．”

    She smiled at the woman again．

    “But you are still the same．Kate Foster．I used to have coffee with you every week．We had some good time，didn’t we，Kate?”

    “Excuse me，Madam，”the woman said．“But my name isn’t Kate Foster．”

    Carol thought for a minute，and then she said，“So you have changed your name too， haven’t you?”

(一)根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1．What did Carol Evans hate?

                                                      

2．Did the two woman know each other?

                                                     

(二)将短文中划线的句子翻译成汉语。

3．                                                   

4．                                                   

(三)根据短文内容判断正(True)误(False)。

   The woman has changed her name．

5．                                                   

阅读理解

　　George and Carol were medical students at the same collage and, like many other college students, they enjoyed playing jokes(玩笑)on people. Both of them smoked; but they knew that their professors were strongly against it, because smoking was dangerous to one's health. One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.

　　At one of their medical classes there was always a skeleton(骨骼) in the room so that the professors could show the students the different bones(骨头) in the human body. (人体)

　　That afternoon, Carol and George put a cigarette(香烟) in the mouth of the skeleton that was to be used for their next lecture.

　　When the professor came in, he began talking and then noticed the cigarette. He went up to the skeleton, took the cigarette out of its mouth and said.“You really should give them up, old boy. Look, what are they doing to you!”

1．One of the medical classes was about ________.

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2．According to the text, which of the following is true?

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A．The professor wanted to play a joke on the students.

B．The professor and the students enjoyed playing jokes on each other.

C．Both the students wanted to play a joke on the skeleton.

D．The skeleton taught both the students a good lesson.

3．When the professor noticed the cigarette in the skeleton's mouth, ________.

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A．he was very surprised and angry

B．he found that the skeleton was also a smoker

C．he knew it was the joke played on him by some smoker students

D．all students in class were laughing aloud

4．“Look. What they are doing to you!”the word“they”refers(指)to ________.

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A．the professor's naughty(淘气的)students

B．George and Carol

C．cigarettes

D．bones

Driving a car at a high speed along a highway seems to be fun. You only need to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highway and it will take you where you wish to go. But to a London taxi driver, driving is not an easy job. A taxi driver needs to have not only good driving skills but also a good knowledge of the city of London, from the loneliest street to the popular restaurant around. He has to be at the service of all kinds of passengers (乘客) at all times.
A London taxi driver said the following about his job.
During the night it is usual for him to stop two or three times for some food. He said, “I never drink when I’m working, otherwise I’d lose my license (驾驶执照).”
He normally goes home between two and three o’clock in the morning. There are times he has to stay longer and try to make more runs. He said, “That’s the worst thing about working for yourself. If you don’t make money, no one is going to give it to you. ”
London taxi drivers not only “take” but also “give”. Every summer hundreds of poor children from London go for a day at the sea ― by taxi! There rides are paid by the taxi drivers. At the sea, they are met by the mayor (市长) , and a lunch party is also held for the taxi drivers and the children. After a happy day’s running around the beaches and visiting the market there, the children go home again by taxi, free of charge of course!
【小题1】London taxi drivers try to make more runs sometimes mainly because __________.

A．they make a living by driving

B．they prefer to work for themselves

C．they want to help more passengers

D．they are used to working deep into the night

【小题2】How do London taxi drivers “give”?

A．They give the poor children a lunch party at the sea each summer.

B．They give poor children the chance to meet the maor.

C．They pay for some poor children’s rides for a day’s tour each summer.

D．They play with some poor children at the sea for a day each summer.

【小题3】Which of the following words can be used to describe London taxi drivers?

A．Brave and careful

B．Rich and generous

C．Modest and easy-going

D．Hard-working and kind

【小题4】The passage is most likely to be found from __________.

A．an advertisement of a taxi company

B．an online travel guide

C．a website about the taxi drivers in London

D．a report about living conditions in London

Here are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!
John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadn’t done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lee’s body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadn’t killed the woman, and he believed it was the "hand of God" that had saved him from death by hanging.
The police in Venezuela (委内瑞拉)in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥伦比亚). Venezuela’s neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律师). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the man’s crime (罪行)was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.
【小题1】The underlined（下划线) word "hanged" in this passage probably means _.

A．shut in a room »

B．questioned by the police

C．killed by putting a rope around the neck

D．kept in a place

【小题2】 What do we¹ know about the door in the floor?

A．It had opened the day before the hanging.

B．It had been broken a long time.

C．After three times, it opened.

D．John Lee’s dead body fell through it.

【小题3】From the story we know that the thief’s bedroom was____.
A. in Venezuela B. in Colombia
C. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia I), in both Venezuela and Colombia
【小题4】Why didn’t the Venezuelan police go into the man’s bedroom?

A．They didn’t know where it was.

B．The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia.

C．The police in Colombia told them that (hey would help.

D．The police in Colombia told them not to go inside.

【小题5】 The police in Colombia didn’t help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief because

A．they didn’t know where he was

B．the police in Venezuela didn’t ask for help

C．the man’s lawyer told them not to help

D．the man’s crime was not a crime in Colombia