Mr. Reese was born in a big city. His father had several companies and got a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was weak at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble(赌博). Of course he lost much money.

　　Now Mr. Reese was twenty and finished middle school. He could not do anything. But his father didn't mind it until one day he found the young man had sold one of his companies. He became so angry that he made him leave his house. The young man couldn't gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his wife from doing so. They began to fight in the room. The young man brought out a knife and killed his father. His mother helped him to run away, but soon after that he was caught and sentenced(判刑)to death.

　　It was a cold and wet day. Suddenly it began to rain hard when Mr. Reese was being sent to the execution ground(刑场). Soon both he and the soldiers were wet through. He said angrily,“Bad luck! I shall be shot in such bad weather!”

　　“Don't complain(抱怨), brothers” said one of the soldiers. “You're luckier than us all. We'll have to go back to the city after that!”

1.Old Reese never wanted to know about his son's studies because _________.

2.The bad young men taught Young Reese to gamble in order _________.

3.Old Reese became angry because _________.

4.Mr. Reese complained _________.

阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job. I worked as a(n)     1at Mr. Breen’s fruit shop .The fruit shop did     2business . Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood,    3he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr. Breen     4them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always      5me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly long-standing customers, and I     6they must have stayed faithful to him    7he had promised to sell good quality      8. He had a way with them —I had to    9that. He called every woman “madam” for a start ,    10those who clearly were not, but when he      11it , it did not sound like flattery (奉承). It just sounded      12in an old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter      13. If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few     14about the weather,     15he did , he would ask about their families or make     16, always cutting his cloth     17his customers . Whatever their bills came to , he      18gave them back the few odd pence (零钱), and I am sure they thought he was very generous (慷慨). But I thought he was the opposite. He never     19anything away. He was always looking for      20for nothing.

1.A．operator         B．assistant      C．waiter         D．secretary

2.A．good             B．poor           C．big            D．usual

3.A．so               B．when           C．therefore      D．but

4.A．sold             B．knew           C．gave           D．sent

5.A．making           B．letting        C．getting        D．keeping

6.A．wish             B．insist         C．declare        D．suppose

7.A．when             B．if             C．because        D．though

8.A．food             B．fruit          C．vegetables     D．drink

9.A．admit            B．expect         C．announce       D．promise

10.A．yet             B．only           C．just           D．even

11.A．told            B．said           C．spoke          D．talked

12.A．serious         B．strange        C．polite         D．familiar

13.A．as well         B．as usual       C．either         D．also

14.A．sayings         B．questions      C．words          D．speeches

15.A．and then        B．and so         C．even if        D．but if

16.A．preparations    B．jokes          C．repairs        D．friends

17.A．according to    B．due to         C．instead of     D．up to

18.A．never           B．ever           C．seldom         D．always

19.A．took            B．moved          C．threw          D．turned .

20.A．something       B．anything       C．somebody       D．anybody