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Choose the best word to fill each blank from the choices A, B, C and D given after the passage. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 从A、B、C、D中选择最正确的答案，并填写在答题卷上。

One summer evening I was sitting by

the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a time it was too dark for me to read __________(1), so I put my book down and turned on the light.

I was just about to draw the curtain as well when I __________ (2) a loud cry of ―Help! Help!‖ It seemed to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked _________ (3) but it was too dark to see anything

clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just in case someone was in trouble. I took the torch and picked up a long walking stick. _________ (4) with these, I went out into the garden. Now and then I heard the cry. There was no doubt that it came from the trees at the end of the garden. ―Who’s there?‖ I called out as I walked, rather _________ (5), down the path that led to the trees. But there was no answer. _________ (6) the help of my torch I searched the whole of that part of the garden and the lower branches of the trees.

A. easily B.

correctly C. quickly

D. hardly

A. listen B. noticed

C. heard

D. made

A. in B. out C.

ahead D. around

A. Supplied

B.

Loaded

C. Armed

D.

Provided

A. led B. went

C. passed

D. joined

A. discovered

B.

searched

C. checked

D.

viewed

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5) (6) There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the _________ (7) that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.

__________(8) feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house

and put away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I heard the cry of ―Help! Help!‖ This time from

right __________(9) my shoulder. I

dropped my book and

__________(10). There, sitting on

top of the radio set, was a parrot!

A. decision B.

(7) suggestion

C. explanation

D. conclusion

A. Even B. Just

(8) C. Still D. Though

A. before B. under (9)

C. beside D. behind

A. cried for B. came (10) out C. jumped up

D.

pointed to

阅读理解Dr. Haydon asked Dr. Eyck to come One night about nine o’clock, (1)

to Clens Falls because________.

Dr. Eyck, a surgeon (外科医生), had a phone call from Dr. Haydon

A. the boy wounded by a

at the hospital in Clens Falls. shot was Dr. Eyck’ patient The surgeon was asked to go there

B. the boy needed his help at once to operate on a very sick boy who shot himself while playing with a gun.

The doctor was soon on his way to Clens Falls. It was 60 miles away. And it was snowing heavily

in the city. The surgeon thought he could get there before 12

o’clock. A few minutes later, the doctor was stopped by a man in an old black coat. Gun in hand, the man ordered the doctor

to get out. Then the man drove the car down the road, leaving

the doctor in the falling snow.

It was after two o’clock in the

morning when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Clens Falls.

Dr. Haydon told him that the boy

had died an hour before. The two doctors walked by the

door of the hospital waiting

room. There sat the man in the

old black coat with his head in his hands.

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C. Dr. Haydon was not a surgeon

D. Dr. Eyck was his assistant

The surgeon was late because________.

A. he was stopped by a beggar

B. the weather was rather terrible

C. Clens Falls was far away from Albany D. His car was taken away Choose the right order of the

events given in the story. a. Dr. Eyck was asked to come to the hospital in Clens Falls.

b. Dr. Eyck arrived at the

hospital.

c. The boy shot himself.

d. The boy died. e. The man in an old coat reached the hospital.

f. Dr. Eyck was robbed (抢劫) of

his car. A. c, e, f, a, b, d (2)

(3)

Haydon to the man, \ Eyck. He is the surgeon who came

B. a, c, f, d, b, e C. c, a, f, e, d, b D. a, c, f, e, d, b

all the way from Albany to save your boy.\

(4) The boy died because________. A. he was too far away from

hospital B. Dr. Haydon didn’t do

anything to save him C. Dr. Eyck was not able to

arrive at the hospital in time

D. Dr. Haydon was not able

to arrive at the hospital in time

Who should be responsible for the (5)

boy’s death?

A. The boy’s father. B. The hospital. C. Dr. Eyck. D. Dr. Haydon