________coming this afternoon to ask about it.　　　

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A. The police is　　　B. A police is

C. The police are　　　D. Polices are

阅读理解：

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从第1～4小题所给的(A)、(B)、(C)、(D)四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

　　The police do many things for us. They help keep our things and us safe. They help keep cars moving safely. They take care of people who are hurt. Then they see these people get to a doctor.

　　The police go around town to see that everything is all right. They get around town in many ways. Some of them walk or go by car. In some big cities, some of the police ride on horses. It is strange to see these animals in the street.

　　As they go around town, the police help people. Sometimes they find lost children. They take the children home. If the police see a fight, they put an end to it right away. Sometimes people will ask the police how to get to a place in town. The police can always tell the people which way to go. They know all the streets and roads well.

　　Some police stand at crossings. They tell the cars when to go and when to stop. They make sure that the cars do not go too fast. They help children cross the street. They also help people who can't walk too well.

　　Without the police, our streets would not be safe. Cars might go too fast and hurt people. Lost people might never be found. The police do a good job. We need them. And we should thank them for a job well done.

1．The police do many things for us. They help keep our things and us ________.

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2．How do some of the police get around in some big cities?

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3．In the text, “put an end to” means “________”.

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4．The text is mainly talking about the ________ of the police.

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The Road That Fell In

　　A young man and his date were driving home from a party one winter night in 1973. They lived in Swansea, a city in Great Britain. The young people talked quietly on their way home.

　　Suddenly, all talk stopped. Something had happened. The road in front of their car had disappeared!

　　The front end of the car tipped (倾斜) forward. The driver hit the brakes. The car slid (滑动) for a few seconds. Then the back wheels caught on a patch (一片土地) of road. The car came to a stop. In front, there was no more road. There was only a deep, black pit (坑) .

　　At first, the two young people sat frozen. Any move might send the car over the edge. Slowly, they made their way to the doors. They jumped onto safe ground and looked down. The front of the car was hanging over a big, wide hole. The hole seemed to have no bottom.

　　The police came and pulled the car back. The young people were safe. What had happened? A few days later, they found out. The road didn't just disappear. It fell into an old coal mine. Many roads in Swansea are built over old coal mines. Heavy weights, like cars, can make the roads fall in.

1．This story is mostly about ________ .

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A．a party in Swansea	B．driving in the winter
C．a road that disappeared

2．A picture of the main idea of this story would show ________ .

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A．a car in a hole	B．a car at the edge of a pit
C．a policeman in a car

3．The young people in the story lived in ________ .

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A．Swansea	B．a coal mine
C．France

4．The back wheels caught on the road and ________ .

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A．stopped the car	B．pushed the car
C．fell off

5．Many roads in Swansea are built on top of ________ .

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A．water	B．heavy weights
C．coal mines

阅读理解

　　One morning in April, Jim Reed checked his e-mail. It was from a woman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had talked to her on e-mail many times in the last ten days. All the other messages were fun and interesting to read. This message was different.

　　The message said,“Good-bye loved kowihn yu I amj leavig.”

　　Mr. Reed was frightened by the message. He tried to understand the words that were not spelled tight. He quickly wrote a

message to his new friend.

　　“What do you mean by the message you just sent me?”

　　He waited but did not get an answer. He wrote back,“Please talk to me.”

　　Finally, she wrote,“I am fallllljg asleep what ti say gildgye ti ny friends.”Mr. Reed thought hard about this message.“Is she going to kill herself?”he thought.

　　“What is your phone number?” he typed. The woman sent a phone number. Mr. Reed called. At first the phone was busy.

Then it just rang and rang. He called the police in Pittsburgh, and told them his story. Then he faxed them what his friend wrote.

　　The police and paramedics (医护人员) quickly went to the woman' s house. When she didn't answer the doorbell, they broke in. They found her on the floor near the computer. She told them,“I took 60 pills.”The paramedics rushed her to the hospital.

　　“Mr. Reed did a great job of saving this woman,”the police captain said.“If he hadn't guessed at the e-message, she would

be dead now.”The woman is fine now, and she thanks Mr. Reed for saving her life.

(1) Mr. Reed talked with the woman ________.

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(2) The e-message he found was strange because ________.

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A. it was fun to read

B. it was not interesting like usual ones

C. the woman wrote nothing.

D. the woman wrote it ten days ago

(3) As soon as Mr. Reed read the e-message, he ________.

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A. wrote back to ask her about the meaning of the message

B. called the police for help

C. went to save the woman himself

D. felt frightened and turned off the computer

(4) The woman wanted to ________

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(5) What's the best title (题目) of the passage?

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