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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The idea of giving people some kind of document affording them safe passage through another country may go back as far as the Egyptian pharaohs (法老), who are thought to have issued their subjects (臣民) with cartouches (图形) bearing the ruler's name.

　　One of the first references to an English passport was in the reign (统治) of King Henry V, who, in an act (法案) of 1414, issued “Safe Conducts” (安全通行证), warning foreigners to allow his subjects to move around unmolested (不受骚扰的) within certain parameters(界限) of destination, time and purpose. In return, no Englishman would injure or rob a foreigner who carried one of Henry's Safe Conducts.

　　The number 13 has been linked to untimely death since Jesus was betrayed (背叛) by Judas, who was the thirteenth person at the Last Supper. This helps explain why 13 is considered particularly dire (terrible) in the dining room. One superstition (迷信) states that the last to sit at a table for 13 will die within a year.

　　Another version is that the first to rise from the table will perish (die). So strong was the belief in England and Scotland that groups of 13 would sometimes try to cheat the devil by sitting or rising simultaneously, so that no one would be first or last.

　　Friday the thirteenth is considered doubly disastrous because Jesus was crucified on Friday.

　　Non-Christians, however, don't necessarily view 13 as unlucky. “In the Middle east, odd numbers tend to be regarded as good,” says University of Toronto anthropology professor Janice Bobby. In Chinese culture, instead of fearing 13, people avoid any number containing a four because it has the same pronunciation as the word for death.

1．The passport first issued in England was to ________.

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A．show King Henry V's power

B．protect the foreigners traveling in England

C．make people travel safely at any time, for any purpose

D．make the travel safe for both Englishmen and foreigners

2．What can we infer from the passage but not stated?

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A．The 13^th floor in a building is considered more terrible than the 13^th to be seated in a dining room.

B．Almost all the peoples in the world have their own superstitions.

C．The purpose of the passport issued by the Egyptian pharaohs was to afford people safe

D．The usage of passports in England is more popular than in Egypt.

3．What does the underlined word probably mean?

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4．If you are a Christian, which day would you choose as your wedding day?

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