It was the small hours of the morning when we reached London Airport. I had phoned London

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from Amsterdam, and there was a hired car to meet, but there was one more unfortunate happening before I reached my flat. In all my travels I have never, but for that once, been required by the British customs to open a single bag or to do more than state that I carried no goods to declare. It was, of course, my fault; the extreme tiredness and nervous tension of the journey had destroyed my diplomacy （处事之道）. I was, for whichever reason, so tired that I could hardly stand, and to the question, “have you read this?” I replied with extreme foolishness, “yes, hundreds of times.”

“And you have nothing to declare?”

“Nothing.”

“How long have you been out of this country?”

“About three months.”

“And during that time you  have bought nothing?”

“Nothing but what is on the list I have given you.”

He seemed momentarily at a loss, but then he attacked. The attack, when it came, was completely unexpected.

“Where did you get that watch?”

I could have kicked myself, two days before, when playing water games with a friend in the bath, I had forgotten to take off my ROLEX OYSTER, and it had, not unnaturally, stopped. I had gone into the market and bought, for only six pence, an ugly time piece that made a strange noise. It had stopped twice, without any reason, during the journey.

I explained, but I had already lost face. I produced my own watch from a pocket, and added that I should be grateful if he would confiscate（没收）the replacement.

“It is not a question of confiscation, ” he said, “there is a fine for failing to declare dutiable goods. And now may I please examine that Rolex?”

It took another quarter of an hour to persuade him that the Rolex was not contraband(走私品); then he began to search my luggage.

1．The writer arrived at London airport        .

       A．at one o’clock in the morning                B．late at night

       C．in the early morning                             D．early in the evening

2．From the questions asked by the customs officer we can infer that      .

       A．he wanted to embarrass the writer

       B．he was just doing his duty

       C．he must have noticed the writer’s ugly watch

       D．he must have noticed the writer’s tiredness

3．Why did the writer buy the watch in the market?

       A．It was a Rolex.                                    B．His own watch didn’t work.

       C．He didn’t like his own watch at all.        D．The watch was cheap.

4．What do you suppose will probably happen to the writer in the end?

      A．He will be let go through the customs without any punishment.

       B．He will be given a fine as a punishment.

       C．His Rolex will be confiscated.

       D．His cheap watch will be confiscated.

After the first World War, a small group of veterans (老兵) returned to their village in Britain. Most of them managed to get along fairly well, but one—Francis Blustering, who had been wounded and who never recovered his strength— was unable to work like others. In time he became very poor. Yet he was too proud to accept anything from the people in the village.

       Once, these veterans held a reunion dinner in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made a good deal of money. Grandin produced a curiosity（珍玩）—a large old gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, however, had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, so that the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin remembered it and asked for it, the coin was missing.

       One of them suggested everyone be searched, to which all agreed, except Blustering. “You refuse, then?” asked Grandin. Blustering said with a red face, “Yes, I cannot allow it.”

       One by one, the others turned out their pockets. When the coin failed to appear, attention was focused on poor Blustering. Under the pitying stares of his friends, he walked out and returned to his home.

       A few years later, Grandin made his house repaired. A workman found the gold coin, buried in dirt between planks (木板) of the floor. Hurrying to Blustering’s home, Grandin apologized to him.

       “But why didn’t you allow yourself be searched?”

       “Because I was a thief,” Blustering said brokenly. “For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home to my wife and hungry children.”

46Francis Blustering lived a poor life because _____________.

A.he was badly wounded in the battle

B.he was unable to work like ordinary people

C.he was too proud to get on well with other people

D.he was waiting for his chance

47The coin was missing because _____________.

       A. all the friends were drunk                B. the room was too noisy

       C. they were too excited to pay attention to it   D. Blustering hid it in a secret place

48. When Blustering turned red and refused to be searched, all people thought _____________.

       A. he was really a poor fellow

       B. he must have stolen the gold coin

       C. the coin must be hidden somewhere in the room

    D. poor Blustering had hidden some food in his pockets

49. What can we learn from the story?

       A. Think twice before you make a judgment.

       B. Blustering is a poor father and husband.

       C. Blustering would rather live alone than be considered a thief.

       D. Blustering is an example we should learn from.

                             

　　Treasure hunts（寻宝）have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues（线索）found in a book when he wrote a children's story, Masquerade, in 1979.The book was about a hare, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of "red herrings", or false clues, to mislead them.

　　Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic（逻辑）, not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words: "One of Six to Eight "under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridge shire in 1536and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

　　Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth ￡3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

67. The underlined word "them"（Paragraph 1）refers to ____.

　　A. red herrings                    B. treasure hunts

　　C. Henry VIII's six wives     D. readers of Masquerade

68. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare？

　　A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill.

　　B. Stevenson's Treasure Island.

　　C. Katherine of Aragon.

　　D. Williams’ home town.

69. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built ____.

　　A. to tell about what happened in 1773

　　B. to show respect for Henry VIII's first wife

　　C. to serve as a road sign in Ampthill Park

　　D. to inform people where the gold hare was

70. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare?

　　a. Henry VIII's six wives

　　b. Katherine's burial place at Kimbolton

　　c. Williams’ childhood in Ampthill

　　d. Katherine of Aragon

　　e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park

　　A. a-b-c-e-d       B. d-b-c-e-a

　　C. a-d-b-c-e       D. b-a-e-c-d

71. What is the subject discussed in the text？

　　A. An exciting historical event.

　　B. A modern treasure hunt.

　　C. The attraction of Masquerade.

D. The importance of logical thinking.

He must have attended the meeting yesterday,___________  he?

A．didn't

B．mustn't

C．needn't

D．hasn't

 

He must have attended the meeting yesterday,___________  he?

A. didn't          B. mustn't        C. needn't         D. hasn't