阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　As I jogged over the bridge and round the corner on my regular early morning run, he was standing opposite the jeweler's looking extremely suspicious (可疑的). But the moment he saw me, instead of trying to avoid me, he came straight across the road as I drew level with the jeweler's. Halfway across he began addressing me: “I thought you were going to…”- but his voice trailed away as he received no reply and no sign of recognition from me. It was quite obvious that he had mistaken me for someone else. But he started up again as if nothing had happened. “Good morning,” he said. “Nice to bump into someone so early. Someone to talk to. I've taken to talking to myself on this job.”

　　I hate meeting people when I'm out early, and I was almost out of breath. I just paused in my stride, nodded in a friendly manner, and went on up the road. The stranger had spoken quietly, and quite slowly. And I had noticed that he was well dressed, too. But if he looked suspicious dressed like that at that time of the morning, what about me? I was in a track suit, with an old sweater round my shoulders and a cap on my head. As to his odd remark about “talking to himself on the job”, I hadn't paid any attention to it, although now it began to worry me. Was he perhaps a plain clothes policeman? At the time I somehow felt he was.

　　I had just turned the corner into the High Street when I heard the sound of breaking glass somewhere behind me, and I thought the sound came from the street I had just left. I stopped dead and almost without thinking looked back around the corner. The stranger was not there, but almost immediately an alarm bell in the jeweler's began ringing loudly.

　　I found out later that a burglar had broken into the jeweler's shop and stolen watches and rings worth about ￡5,000．The police are still looking into the matter, but I'm afraid to go and tell them what I know now because they might even suspect me of committing the crime, and it might be difficult for me to prove my innocence (无罪). After all, I haven't offered my assistance as a witness, and the only other person around that morning was the “stranger” who had spoken to me.

1．The writer ________.

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A．always goes past the jeweler's

B．goes jogging regularly

C．meets a few people every morning

D．often sees a policeman in the High Street

2．Which of the following statements is true?

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A．The stranger was waiting for someone.

B．The stranger hated talking to people.

C．The stranger recognized the writer.

D．The stranger had met the writer before.

3．Why did the stranger seem suspicious?

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A．He was far too friendly.

B．He was dressed too well for that time.

C．He was about to go into the jeweler's.

D．He talked to himself a lot.

4．If the writer had been on the spot, ________.

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A．he might have been badly injured

B．the stranger wouldn't have broken the window

C．he wouldn't have heard the alarm bell

D．he would have seen what happened

5．The writer hasn't told the police what little he knows because ________.

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A．he is afraid they might arrest him

B．he thinks the stranger is innocent

C．the stranger hasn't asked him to be a witness

D．the burglar didn't steal very much

阅读理解

　　We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude(序幕)to an unforeseen(意料之外的)series of catastrophes(大祸). While you are on the phone，the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery(陶器)and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attended to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.

　　Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue．The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-diver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!

1．What would have most upset the woman the day every thing went wrong for her?

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A．She had not expected her husband to arrive so early.

B．The meal she had cooked for the three guests had got burnt.

C．Her husband had not told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.

D．She had not got enough crockery left to serve the meal with.

2．There was a second angry argument because _____.

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A．the lorry driver blamed the owner of the cake for his accident

B．the traffic was extremely slow to get on the move again

C．the lorry-driver did not think he should be made to sweep up the glass

D．two dogs had devoured what was left of the cake

3．In the sentence“It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions”,“set up”means“_____”.

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A．establish　　　 B．build

C．cause　　　　　D．fix

4．According to the passage，the lorry stopped suddenly _____.

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A．in order not to hit the car in front

B．in order to draw up alongside the car

C．because the driver didn't want to run over the dogs

D．because the driver has seen a cake in the air

阅读理解

    Do you ever have days when everything seems to go wrong? Sarah Rosenbaum does. In fact, last week nothing seemed to go right for her at all…

    On Monday her mom and dad were out, so Sarah decided to have a TV dinner. She wanted to switch the oven off at 7: 30 but she was practicing the cello, and it wasn't until 8 o'clock that she suddenly realized: she had forgotten her TV dinner ! She rushed into the kitchen, but it was too late- everything was black.