Tom went into the station shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon. This is a bad time to travel in London, both by bus and by train, because people go home from work at this hour. He had to   1    a long queue of people who were waiting for tickets. When at last his   2    

came, he got the right ticket and,    3     asking several people the way. He   4  found the right platform. It was crowded. He was not able to get on the first train; he was able to move near to the edge of the platform so as to be in a    5   place to get on the next one. When it came in, Tom was    6   forward to the train by the    7   of people from behind .The doors closed and the train moved off before he was able to get his breath   8   .Since he was unable to   9   the names of the station where the train stopped, he had to count the number of stops   10    he could know where to get off .His station was the seventh along the line.

   When the train reached the seventh station, Tom got off. But he was surprised to see that he had got off at station that he had never heard of. A man on the platform told him that he had traveled on a train in wrong direction.

   （  ）1. A. jump         B. stand            C. join               D. find

   （  ）2 .A. turns          B. hour             C. train              D. luck

   （  ）3. A. on          B. by              C. through           D .without

   （  ）4. A. first          B. already           C. almost            D. also

   （  ）5. A. safe          B. better            C. right              D. empty

   （  ）6. A. thrown        B. swept            C. sent              D. driven

   （  ）7. A. race          B. number           C. queue             D. rush

   （  ）8. A. back          B. over             C. down             D. out

   （  ）9. A. follow        B. see               C. remember         D. call

   （  ）10. A. because      B. although           C. since            D. so that

________ Columbus found America, the Indians had lived there.

1. A.
   Before long
2. B.
   Long before
3. C.
   Shortly after
4. D.
   Soon after

________ Columbus found America, the Indians had lived there.

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