Question

    About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very 1 from the other villages and towns. They had few friends and they got bad harvest. 2 of them left the village. Of course,there was neither electricity nor gas there.

   Once a writer 3 the village. The backwardness (落后) of the village surprised him. He decided 4 about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home village to the people. Several months 5 he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had enjoyed 6 in the city.

  “Everything is wonderful in 7 ,” the old man said.

  “I've 8 to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I could not 9 at night. ”

   “What happened to you?” his wife asked.

    “The 10 was on in my bedroom all the time. ”

   “Why not blow it out then?”

   “I tried——but it was inside a little glass bottle. ”

() 1. A. close   B. far   C. near   D. high

() 2. A. All   B. Some   C. None   D. Hundreds

() 3. A. visited   B. lived   C. stayed   D. got to

() 4. A. to write   B. to speak   C. to say   D. to tell

() 5. A. after   B. later   C. soon   D. ago

() 6. A. food   B. music  C. himself   D. traffic

() 7. A. town   B. mountain    C. village   D. London

() 8. A. gone   B. came   C. been   D. got

() 9. A. sleep   B. help   C. walk   D. see

() 10. A. window   B. radio   C. light   D. TV set

Answer 1

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