Since 1978 the Chinese people ______ great changes.

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　　A. has had   B. happened   C. have had   D. had had

　　When Martin was a little boy, he lived in the little town Holtham. At that time, he thought the town was very big.

　　When, Martin came back to the town last night, "It's a small town!" he thought.

　　The town has changed very little in the past 40 years. But Martin has changed a lot. He has grown into a man. His thoughts are man's thoughts. He sees things through a man's eyes.

　　Martin stayed in the town for 5 hours. He walked from street to street, but he knew nobody. Was Holtham, then, a town of strangers? No, he suddenly understood（明白）it all. Only he was a 

stranger in the town.

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1. Martin left the town ______.　　　　　　　　

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A. 5 hours ago　　 B. 14 years ago

C. 40 years ago　　D. when he was forty

2. In the past 40 years, Martin has changed ______.

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A. a great deal　　B. very little

C. a little　　　　D. has face

3. Now Martin sees things through ______ eyes. 

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A. a stranger's　　B. a man's

C. a child's　　   D. a boy's

4. Martin ______ during his 5 hours' stay in the town.

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A. saw a lot of friends

B. knew nobody

C. didn't want to see his friends

D. met no friend

5. Which of the following is true? ______.　　 

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A. A man's thoughts and a child's thoughts are different

B. There have been great changes in the town

C. Holtham was a town of strangers

D. Martin wasn't a stranger in the town

阅读理解

　　At our Tucson travel office, an out-of-state (state指美国) couple (夫妇) asked what the weather would be like at the Grand Canyon(大陕谷) in the autumn. By the way of example, I told them about my trip to the Canyon last autumn.

　　“The Saturday before ! left, temperatures were in the 35℃,”I said. “The next Saturday they had 16 inches(英寸) of snow. ”

　　The couple listened politely, and then one of them said, “But we won't be going on Saturday. ”

(1) In the first sentence, “an out-of-state couple” means

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A. the writer's teacher

B. a foreign man and his wife

C. an old man

D. the writer's brother

(2) The couple asked the writer ________.

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A. about the weather at Tucson

B. if the writer liked the weather at Tucson

C. whether the writer liked the weather at the Grand Canyon

D. about the weather at the Grand Canyon

(3) The couple wanted ________.

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A. to have a trip to the Grand Canyon

B. to write a story about the weather

C. to write a story about the Grand Canyon

D. to have a trip to Tucson

(4) The writer told the couple ________

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A. how he had Saturday at Tucson

B. he was a man on holiday

C. about the great changes of the weather at the Grand Canyon last autumn

D. about Tucson and the Grand Canyon

(5) From the last sentence, we may conclude (得出结论) that ________.

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A. the couple and the writer knew each other two years ago

B. the writer made a joke(开玩笑)with the couple

C. the couple understood what the writer said

D. the couple didn't understand what the writer said