Question

【题目】听一段材料，回答下面几个小题。

【1】Why did Mark Twain’s friend ask him to buy a ticket for him?

A.He was a poor man.

B.He had lost his money.

C.Mark Twain was kind.

【2】What was the friend doing when the conductor came to check the tickets?

A.He was lying on the seat.

B.He was sitting on the seat.

C.He was lying under the seat.

【3】Why did Mark Twain talk in a loud voice?

A.To make his friend hear.

B.To make the conductor hear.

C.To make the passengers hear.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】C

【解析】听力原文：

Mark Twain,as you know,was famous in his days as a public speaker.In his public speeches,he always liked to tell funny stories and he also liked to play jokes on his friends. One day,one of his friends lost his money and asked him to buy a ticket for him.“I don’t have enough money to pay for your ticket and mine,”Mark Twain said.The friend didn’t know what to do. “We can do this,”Mark Twain said.“We can get on the train and when the conductor comes to check the tickets,you can hide under my seat.”

Later,however,when the conductor came to check the tickets,Mark Twain gave him two tickets—one for himself and the other for his friend.Then he explained in a loud voice.“My friend here is a very strange man.When he travels on the train,he does not like to sit on the seat.He enjoys lying under the seat on the floor.”Of course everyone in the train looked at the poor friend under the seat and laughed at him loudly.