37. The underlined part “it” (in Para. 4) refers to______.

　　　 A. a taxi　　　　 B. the money 　　　

C. a bomb　 　　　 　　　　D. public transport

36. Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

　　　 A. In a cafe.　　　　　　 B. In a restaurant.

C. In a nightclub.　　　 D. In a pub.

35. The writer doesn’t like London because she ______.

　　　 A. is not used to the life there now

　　　 B. has lived there for seventeen years

　　　 C. prefers to live in an old-fashioned house

　　　 D. has to be polite to everyone she meets there

34. Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

A. Someone we don’t know.

B. The writer did it for himself.

C. The secretary did so.

D. A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing.

I

I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)-all those little houses, looking terri­bly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.

Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good man­ners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good man­ners-people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.

I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.

As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public trans­port after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.

The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbor who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.

33. How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A. He felt strange.　　　　 B. He felt embarrassed.

C. He felt very sad.　　　　 D. He felt astonished.

32. Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

A. Because of his poor sense of direction.

B. Because he always forget the way to home.

C. Because he did not have any friend.

D. Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.

31. What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.

B. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.

C. He will give the very person long list of direction.

D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.

30．People think sleepwalking is nothing but one of the fantastic things without any explanation. Why?

　 A. It is so common that it needn’t be recorded.

　 B. Scientists take no interest in it.

　 C. Doctors don’t want to care about it.

D. No records about it have been made.

H

Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

29．An American expert knows more about sleep than any other man alive, ________.

　A. because he can get many takers for his experiment

　B. because he has had trouble with sleep for 30 years

　C. but he says he has never seen sleepers walk

　D. but he has nobody to sleep together with him

28．The passage mentions a college student who got into the habit of ________.

　A. getting up in the middle of the night and walking out

　B. walking three quarters of a mile every day

　C. swimming in the Iowa River before going to bed

　D. walking about before he went to bed