One day a man went to a fish store to buy a fish for his dinner. He picked up a fish and after examining it carefully, he held it up to his nose and smelled it.

“Here! What’s this?” cried the shopkeeper. “Why do you smell that fish? Do you think it has gone bad?”

“I didn’t smell it,” answered the man.

“Then what were you doing with your face so close to the fish?” asked the shopkeeper.

“I wasn’t smelling the fish. I was only talking to it,” said the man.

“Talking to it?” said the fish seller, “Why, what did you say to it?”

“I asked him if there was any news from the sea, and that’s all,” answered the man.

“Well, what did the fish say?”

“He said he didn’t know the latest news, because he hadn’t been in the sea for more than two weeks.”

(   )36.What does “examine” mean?  It means “            “.

A. Look at closely    B. looked after closely   

C. look for closely     D. look up closely

37.Why did the man hold the fish up to his nose?

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(  )38.What did the fish say, do you think?

A. It said it was out of the sea.        B. It said it didn’t know the latest news.

C. It said it hadn’t been in the sea      D. It said nothing.

(  )39. What happened at the end of the story?

A. The shopkeeper got angry with the buyer

B. The buyer left the shop without buying the fish.

C. The buyer fought with the shopkeeper.

D. The buyer got some bad news from the fish.

(  )40.what does“latest”mean?

A.迟到 B.最新的 C.最长的 D. 流行的