I________ him but l don't________ him．

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I ________ him, but I don't ________ him.

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A．believe, believe in

B. believe in, believe

C．believe, believe

D．trust, believe

“I don’t believe in Santa Claus!” Trogmire announced.
Tremor looked shocked. “Why not?” he asked.
“Because he never leaves me any gifts at all,” Trogmire growled.
Tremor thought about the evidence for a few seconds. “Maybe,” he suggested, “it’s because when Santa checked his list, your name wasn’t in the ‘nice’ column.”
“So, he could at least bring me a lump of coal!” Trogmire replied. “And,” he went on, “Troubled doesn’t believe in Santa, either.”
“Right,” Tremor said, “because he saw his parents putting the ‘From Santa’ presents under the tree. But I know the truth about that. My mother found out from Troubled’s mother. When Troubled’s parents got an e-mail from Santa, saying that he would never bring Troubled another gift, they didn’t want to tell him the truth. So now they buy presents and pretend they’re from Santa.”
“What did Troubled do to get Santa so mad?” Trogmire questioned.
“I think it had something to do with the time he put glue paper all over the living room floor on Christmas Eve, and left a sign that said, ‘Trapped like a rat!’ hanging over the fireplace.” said Tremor.
“I guess Santa doesn’t have a sense of humour,” sighed Trogmire. “Well, at least I’m not the only one who Santa scratched off his name list.”
【小题1】Why doesn’t Santa leave presents for Trogmire or Troubled?

A．Their parents won’t let him leave gifts.	B．He can’t find their homes.
C．He often forgets their names.	D．They have behaved badly.

【小题2】Trogmire and Troubled don’t believe in Santa because ________.

A．Santa has no sense of humor	B．Santa doesn’t give them anything
C．they are too naughty to believe	D．Tremor convinced them he wasn’t real

【小题3】Troubled’s parents never ________.

A．told him about the message from Santa	B．loved him very much
C．cared about how he behaved	D．bought him anything

【小题4】Trogmire’s last comment could be an example of the saying _______.

A．Misery(苦难,不幸) loves company	B．Easy come, easy go
C．Beauty is only skin deep	D．Love me, love my dog

I don’t know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration（崇敬）for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony’s "Funeral Oration", Grey' s "Elegy", and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.

He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc., and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with（着迷于）the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London, I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms－a bedroom and a sitting room－in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.

1．We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father _________.

       A．made an important contribution

       B．insisted that he choose writing as a career

       C．opposed his becoming a writer

       D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

2．The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of _________.

       A．his special talent

       B．his father's teaching and encouragement

       C．his study at Harvard

       D．a hidden urge within him

3．The author _________.

       A．began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard

       B．had always been successful in his writing career

       C．went to Harvard to learn to write plays

       D．worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer

4．The author really started on his way to become a writer _________.

       A．when he was in high school                  B．when he was studying at Harvard

       C．when he lived in London                       D．after he entered college

5．What can we learn about the author’s life in the autumn of 1926?

        A．He left Harvard and got married.          B．He couldn’t make up his mind what to do.

       C．He started his dream as a writer.         D．he began to think seriously what to do.