【正文】 ain as pain. When the ache is bad enough it keeps me from sleeping. Every night I yearn for sleep, I strive for it。 yet it flutters on ahead of me like a curtain. There are sleeping pills, of course, but the doctor has warned me against them.Last night, after what seemed hours of damp turmoil, I got up and crept slipperless down the stairs, feeling my way in the faint street light that came through the window. Once safely arrived at the bottom, I walked into the kitchen and looked around in the refrigerator. There was nothing much I wanted to eat: the remains of a bunch of celery, a bluetinged heel of bread, a lemon going soft. I39。ve fallen into the habits of the solitary。 my meals are snatched and random. Furtive snacks, furtive treats and piics. I made do with some peanut butter, scooped directly from the jar with a forefinger: why dirty a spoon?Standing there with the jar in one hand and my finger in my mouth, I had the feeling that someone was about to walk into the room—some other woman, the unseen, valid owner—and ask me what in hell I was doing in her kitchen. I39。ve had it before, the sense that even in the course of my most legitimate and daily actions—peeling a banana, brushing my teeth—I am trespassing.At night the house was more than ever like a stranger39。s. I wandered through the front room, the dining room. the parlour, hand on the wall for balance. My various possessions were floating in their own pools of shadow, denying my ownership of them. I looked them over with a burglar39。s eye, deciding what might be worth the risk of stealing, what on the other hand I would leave behind. Robbers would take the obvious things—the silver teapot that was my grandmother39。s, perhaps the handpainted china. The television set. Nothing I really want.92. The author could not fall asleep becauseA. it was too damp in the bedroom.B. she had run out of sleeping pills.C. she was in very poor health.D. she felt very hungry.93. The author did not like the food in the refrigerator because it was NOTA. fresh.B. sufficient.C. nutritious.D. delicious.94. When the author couldn’t fall asleep he did all of the following EXCEPTA. creeping slipperless to the kitchen.B. looking for food in the refrigerator.C. waiting for some stranger.D. wandering around the house.95. By “ At night the house was more than ever like a stranger39。s ”( Line l, Para. 4), the author probably means thatA. the house was too dark at night.B. there were unfamiliar rooms in the houseC. she felt much more lonely at nightD. the furniture there didn39。t belong to her.TEXT DThe chief problem in coping with foreign motorists is not so much remembering that they are different from yourself, but that they are enormously variable. Cross a frontier without adjusting and you can be in deep trouble.One of the greatest gulfs separating the driving nations
is the Atlantic Ocean. More precisely, it is the mental distance between the European and the American motorist, particularly the South American motorist. Compare, for example, an English driver at a set of traffic lights with a Brazilian.Very rarely will an Englishman try to anticipate the green light by moving off prematurely. You will find the occasional sharpie who watches for the amber to e up on the adjacent set of lights. However, he will not go until he receives the lawful signal. Brazilians view the thing quite differently. If, in fact, they see traffic lights at all, they regard them as a kind of roadside decoration.The natives of North America are much more disciplined. They demonstrate this in their addiction to driving in one lane and sticking to it—even if it means settling behind some great truck for many miles.To prevent other drivers from falling into reckless ways, American motorists try always to stay close behind the vehicle in front, which can make it impossible, when all the vehicles are moving at about 55 mph, to make a real lane change. European visitors are constantly falling into trap. They return to the Old World still flapping their arms in frustration because while driving in the States in their car they kept failing to get off the highway when they wanted to and were swept along to the next city.However, one nation above all others lives scrupulously by its traffic regulationsthe Swiss. In Switzerland, if you are simply to anticipate a traffic light, the chances are that the motorist behind you would take your number and report you to the police. What is more, the police would visit you。 and you would be convicted.The Swiss take their rules of the road so seriously that a driver can be ordered to appear in court and charged for speeding on hearsay alone, and very likely found guilty. There are slight regional variations among the French, German and Italian speaking areas, but it is generally safe to assume that any car bearing a CH sticker will be driven with a high degree of discipline.96. The author’s main purpose is to ＿＿＿ according to this passage. A. show the culture differences among motorists.B. remind us of abiding the traffic regulations C. prevent drivers from falling into reckless way D. explain how to driver at a set of traffic lights.97. The fact that the Brazilians regard traffic lights as a kind of roadside decoration suggests thatA. traffic light are part of street scenery.B. they simply ignore traffic lights.C. they want to put them at roadsides.D. there are very few traffic lights98. The second and third paragraphs focus on the difference betweenA. the Atlantic Ocean and other oceans.B. English drivers and American drivers.C. European drivers and American drivers.D. European drivers and South American drivers.99. The phrase “ anticipate the green light ” ( Line l, Para. 3 ) is closest in meaning toA. wait for the green light to be on.B. forbid others to move before the green l