【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 r me, please?” His mother and sister were busy and none of them said anything. But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters. Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s trousers. She was a kindhearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches. The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she, too, remembered her brother’s trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done. You can imagine the look on the young man’s face when he put the trousers on the next morning. 41. The young man’s trousers were ______ for him at first. A. a bit too long B. very good C. not too long D. too short 42. The young man’s mother and sisters didn’t answer because they were busy ______ in the kitchen. A. cooking B. making tea C. washing clothes D. washing cups, glasses and so on 43. His elder sister shortened the trousers ______. A. in the evening B. after lunch C. as soon as she had finished the washing D. after she came back from the cinema 44. The next morning the young man found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him. A. two B. four C. six D. eight 45. We can imagine that when the young man put the trousers on the next morning, he would feel A. happy B. surprising C. surprised D. thankful B When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18th century, people had different ideas about their use. Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause people to die. In Sweden（瑞典） , King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether or not this was true. It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time. They were twins and were almost exactly alike in every way. They had both been sentenced to death（判處死刑） . The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee. Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind. At last, the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83, the other died a few years later. Because of the experiment, tea and coffee got accepted（接受） and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee is drunk today. 46. Tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in ______. A. the eighteenth century B. the eighteen century C. eighteenth centuries D. eighteen centuries 47. King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out ______. A. if（是否） tea and coffee were harmful to people B. if the twin brothers should be sentenced to death C. if tea and coffee did harm to people’s health and caused them to die D. whether tea and coffee were useful or not 48. The King decided to let the brothers live ______. A. if they wanted to obey his rules B. if they agreed to drink tea and coffee every day C. if one of them drink several cups of tea each day while the other had several cups of coffee D. if they agreed to have several cups of tea every day 49. The brother who had drunk tea every day lived ______. A. until he was over 83 B. until he was 83 C. until the other had been dead for several years D. until he had drunk tea for a few years 50. Today the Swedish drink ______. A. much more coffee than tea B. much tea and coffee C. little tea and coffee D. much tea but little coffee C Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there were the end of year exams. All the students had been working hard for some time. If they didn’t pass, they would have to r