【正文】 she didn’t hear YOU. Now they will stay at home this evening, and the husband will be happy!”Why do people often telephone Mrs. Jones when they want the cinema? D A．Because she lives next door to the cinema. B．Because she knows the cinema program very well. C．Because the telephone pany39。s puter goes wrong from time to time. D．Because her telephone number is similar to that of the cinema.Why was Mrs. Jones so surprised at a phone call one evening? C A．Because the call was from a stranger. B．Because the man on the phone knew her name. C．Because the man on the phone asked a question and then answered it himself. D．Because the man on the phone invited her to the cinema.According to Mr. Jones, why didn39。t the man on the phone want to go to the cinema? B A．Because he had seen the film before. B．Because he was feeling very tired that evening. C．Because the film wasn39。t worth seeing. D．Because the film had started already.What do you think the man39。s wife wanted to do that evening? A A．To go to the cinema with her husband. B．To find out when the last film started. C．To stay home with her husband. D．To eat out with her husband and then go to the cinema.What can you conclude from the story? B A．The man on the phone was not interested in film. B．The man on the phone was rather clever. C．The man39。s wife was fond of films. D．The telephone panies are inefficient sometimes.Passage 2Britain and France are separated by the English Channel, a body of water that can be crossed in as few as 20 minutes. But the cultures of the two countries sometimes seem to be miles apart.Last Thursday Britain and France celebrated the 100th anniversary(周年紀念) of the signing of a friendship agreement called the Entente Cordiality. The agreement marked a new beginning for the countries following centuries of wars and lovehate partnership.But their relationship has been ups and downs over the past century. Just last year, there were fierce disagreements over the Iraq war—which British Prime Minister Tony Blair supported despite French President Jacques Chirac speaking out against it. This disfort is expressed in Blair and Chirac’s body language at international meetings. While the French leader often greets German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder with a hug（擁抱）,Blair just receives a handshake. However, some political experts say the war in Iraq could in fact have helped ties.The history of divisions may well be because of the very different ways in which the two sides see the world. But this doesn’t stop 12 million Britons taking holidays in France each year. However, only 3 million French e in the opposite direction. Surveys（調(diào)查）show that most French people feel closer to the Germans than they do to the British. And the research carried out in Britain has found that only a third of the population believes the French can be trusted. Perhaps this bad feeling es because the British dislike France’s close relationship with Germany, or because the French are not happy with Britain’s close links with the US.Whatever the answer is, as both sides celebrate 100 years of “doubtful friendship”, they are at least able to make jokes about each other. Here’s one: What’s the best thing about Britain’s relationship with France? The English Channel.For centuries, the relationship between Britain and France is ____D____. A．friendly B．impolite C．brotherly D．a(chǎn) mixture of love and hateThe war in Iraq does ___D_____ to the relationship between France and Britain. A．good B．harm C．neither good nor harm D．both good and harmThe British are not so friendly to __A______ and the French are not so friendly to ________. A．Germany。 America B．America。 Germany C．Germany。 Germany D．America。 America____D____are more interested in having holidays in ________. A．American people … Britain B．British people … Germany C．French people … Britain D．British people … FranceWhat does the last sentence mean? ____C____ A．As long as the English Channel exists, no further disagreement will form between France and Britain. B．The English Channel can prevent anything unfriendly happening in both France and Britain. C．France and Britain are near neighbors, and this will help balance the relationship between them. D．The English Channel is the largest enemy between France and Britain.Passage 3No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we needn’t worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain.Long ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. Soon after 1770, Josept Priestleg discovered a gas which is now called “l(fā)aughing gas”. Laughing gas became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn’t seem to feel pain when they were using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself. He asked a friend to help him.Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Well’s teeth. Wells felt no pain at all.As he didn’t know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this terrible event.1It is ＿＿B＿＿ since a man felt all the pain while being operated. A．a(chǎn) few more years B．not long C．few years D．two thousand years1Long ago, when the sick man was operated on, he ＿C＿＿＿. A．could feel nothing B．could not want anything C．could feel all the pain D．could do anything1Us