When the Americans were getting ready to send their first man to the moon, an old Irishman (爱尔兰人) was watching them on the television in the bar of a hotel. There was an Englishman² in the bar, too, and he ___11____ the Irishman, “The ____12___ are very clever, aren’t they? They are going ___13____ some men to the moon. It is a long ____14___ from the world.”

“Oh, that’s ____15___,” the Irishman answered quickly. “The Irish¹ are going to send some men to the sun in a few months. That’s ____16___ away from the moon, you know.”

“Yes, it is.” The English man said, “___17___ it is too ___18__ for the people to go to.”

The Irishman laughed and said, “Well, the Irish aren’t stupid, you know, we ____19___ go to the sun during the day, of course, we will go there ___20____.”

11. a. said to          b. told         c. talk to          d. spoke³ to

12. a. Englishmen       b. Americans        c. Irish            d. Frenchmen⁴

13. a. to reach         b. to send          c. to give          d. to rest

14. a. time         b. street           c. road         d. way

15. a. Good         b. Nice         c. true         d. nothing

16. a. long         b. far          c. farther⁵          d. much farther

17. a. and              b. but          c. or               d. because

18. a. hot              b. warm         c. cold         d. cool

19. a. don’t           b. can’t           c. won’t           d. mustn’t

20. a. in the morning   b. in the afternoon c. in the evening   d. during the night

(B)

Martin Henfield talks about some of his experiences (经历) as a twin: When we were small my mother dressed us ____1___ the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didn’t like it. But when we went on our first camping (野营) trip with the scouts⁶ (童子军), it was even ____2____. We were only ten years old, and while ___3___ went into their sleeping bags for the night, we were not happy to snuggle (紧偎) inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.

At school our classmates ____4____ us Henfield One and Henfield Two, so people couldn’t even see our difference according⁷ to (根据) our initials⁸ (姓名的开头字母) because _____5__ of us were M. O. It was only when I went to college and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity⁹ (身份).

Before I went to college (大学), during my last secondary¹⁰ school ____6____, I got a job on a building site (地点). My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. He was resting. One day I said to the foreman (工头), “Can I have a week off?” “Certainly,” he said, “but you won’t have the job when you ____7____ back.” I didn’t want to ___8___ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went down in my jeans (牛仔裤), jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week. ____9____ of them knew the difference.

Now I am growing old and I feel very different ___10__ my twin brother. And he’ll tell you the same. We have really worked towards that for forty years.

1. a. in            b. for          c. on                   d. with

2. a. bad           b. worse            c. good             d. best

3. a. all boys      b. another boy      c. all the other boys       d. all the boys

4. a. called        b. asked            c. to                   d. knew

5. a. every     b. each         c. both             d. all

6. a. holidays      b. holiday          c. week             d. weekend

7. a. get           b. will get         c. got              d. are getting

8. a. loose         b. lost         c. missing          d. lose

9. a. All           b. None         c. Each             d. Both

10. a. in           b. from         c. with             d. as

    Mr. and Mrs. Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They 1 their car outside and went in. Mr. Moore had never got drunk¹² before, so he was 2 not to drink too much, 3 his friends asked him to drink more 4 . During the party, Mrs. Moore found that she had 5 to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the car and 6 it for her. He 7 so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn¹³(喇叭) blowing near his own car. He thought 8 might be in need of help and went over to the car with the 9 . He found a small black bear sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn. When Mr. Moore 10 the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to 11 that his story was 12 , he found that the car with the 13 in it had

gone. There were so many 14 about Mr. Moore’s black bear during the next week that he at last put an advertisement in the newspaper, “If anyone saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel 15 the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…” Tow¹¹ days later 16 Mrs. Richards called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening, and that 17 he had blown the horn. Mrs. Richards did not 18 to think there was anything 19 about that. “Our bear likes blowing car horns,” she said, “and we don’t 20 when we are not driving the car.”

1. A. pulled 　　　B. stayed 　　　　C. left 　　　  　D. hid

2. A. polite 　　　B. careful 　　 　 C. glad 　　　　 D. afraid

3. A. whether 　　B. until 　　　　  C. or 　　　　　 D. though

4. A. all along 　　B. once again 　　 C. just then 　 　 D. for ever

5. A. learned¹⁴ 　　 B. known¹⁵ 　　　　C. remembered  　D. forgotten

6. A. buy 　　　　B. get 　　　　 　C. send 　　　　 D. return

7. A. said 　　　　B. went 　　　　  C. did 　　　 　 D. thought

8. A. one 　　　　B. someone 　　　 C. his wife 　　  D. the bear

9. A. noise 　　　 B. voice 　　　　  C. cry 　　　　  D. shout

10. A. was sent to  B. was seated at 　  C. got rid of 　    D. got back to

11. A. show 　　　B. notice 　　　　  C. require 　　　 D. promise

12. A. interesting 　B. correct 　　　　 C. true 　　　    D. exciting

13. A. horn 　　　 B. bear 　　　　　 C. bag 　　　　  D. driving-seat

14. A. laughs 　　　　 B. shouts 　　　　  C. smiles 　　　  D. calls

15. A. for 　　　　　  B. at 　　　　　 　 C. in 　　　　　 D. on

16. A. the 　　　　　  B. a 　　　　　　 　C. / 　　　　　　D. some

17. A. quickly 　　　  B. completely¹⁶ 　　 　C. know 　　　 　D. seem

19. A. useful 　　　 　B. strange 　　　　  C. common 　　 　D. bad

20.A. agree 　　　　　B. like 　　　　　 　C. mind 　　　  　D. worry ...

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