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     Mrs. Hunt is sixty years old. She lives in a farmhouse in the country with her dog Bill. Her son Sam is

twenty-one years old. At first, he works in a shop in the country and lives with his mother. But now he finds

new work in a town and lives there. It's quite a long way from his mother's house. She isn't happy about this.

Sam says, "There isn't any good work for me in the country, mother, and I can get a lot of money in the town

and give you some every week."

     One day Mrs. Hunt goes to see her son, and she goes there by train. Sam meets her at the train station. She

asks her son, "Why don't you phone me?"

     "But mother, you haven't a phone." Sam says.

     "No," she answers, "I haven't, but you have one!"

1. Mrs. Hunt lives in a ______. [ ]

A. shop

B. farmhouse

C. town

D. city

2. ______ finds the new work in a town. [ ]

A. Mrs. Hunt

B. Sam

C. Bill

D. Sam's father

3. Sam can get much money ______. [ ]

A. from his mother

B. in the town

C. in the shop

D. in the country

4. Mrs. Hunt goes to see her son ______.[ ]

A. in her car

B. by bus

C. on foot

D. by train

5. Does Sam phone his mother? [ ]

A. Yes, he does.

B. No, he doesn't.

C. I think so.

D. Of course.

答案

1-5: BBBDB

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Analysts have their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, (1) without being greatly instructed. Humor can be (2) , (3) a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are (4) to any but the pure scientific mind.

One of the things (5) said about humorists is that they are really very sad ’people clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly (6) . It would be more (7) , I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more (8) of it than some others, compensates for it actively and (9) Humorists fatten on troubles. They have always made trouble (10) They struggle along with a good will and endure pain (11) , knowing how well it will (12) them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing hoards and’ swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible (13) of tight boots. They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a (14) of what is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the p (15) of human woe.

Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to (16) the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece of writing brings a person to the point (17) his emotional responses are untrustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is (18) humor, like poetry, has an extra content, it plays (19) to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the (20) .

3()

A.as

B.for

C.which

D.though