This is a true story from Guyana. One day, a boy took a piece of paper from a box. He made a paper ball and pushed it into his nose. He couldn’t get it out. He ran crying to his mother. His mother couldn’t get the paper out, either. A week later, the paper was still in the boy’s nose. His nose began to have a bad smell.
So his mother took the boy to a hospital. The doctor looked up at the child’s nose, but she couldn’t get the paper out. She said she had to cut the boy’s nose to get the paper out.
The boy’s mother came home looking sad. She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut. The next day she took the boy to her friend Sidney who lived in a house with an old lady called May. May wanted to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose.
“Yes, I can see it,” May said. “It will be out soon.”
As she spoke, she shook some black pepper on the child’s nose. The child gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out. His mother was surprised. May told his mother to take the boy to the seaside for a swim, for the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell.
So the lucky boy didn’t have to go to the hospital to have his nose cut.
1.After the boy pushed a paper ball into his nose, ____.
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A．he took it out |
B．his mother took it out |
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C．he did nothing but cry |
D．he tried to take it out but failed |
2.The paper ball stayed in the boy’s nose for ____.
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A．at most seven days |
B．less than seven days |
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C．more than seven days |
D．exactly seven days |
3.According to the story, _____ was most worried about the boy’s accident.
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A．the boy’s mother |
B．Sidney |
C．May |
D．the doctor |
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
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A．The doctor helped to take the paper ball out of the boy’s nose. |
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B．May succeeded in taking the paper out. |
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C．The boy’s mother found some black pepper to solve the problem. |
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D．The boy had to have his nose cut at last. |
5.The boy should be taken to the seaside for a swim because ____.
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A．he needed to learn to swim |
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B．the sea water would stop the bad smell of his nose. |
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C．the sea water would wash out the paper ball. |
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D．he needed a rest |
Nowadays, any traveler might be treated as a terrorist(恐怖分子) by the immigration(入境) officers in the USA.We returned from Iraq and landed safely. My heart 16 when I was asked to the back room by the immigration officer. My 17, with his very American last name, had no trouble at all. In fact, I am 18 American born and raised, but they weren’t quite ready to let me in yet. The only reason was 19 they thought my name looked like the one of 20 who’s on their wanted list(通缉令) and I had to wait till they checked me out 21 Washington.
Time passed 22. One hour, one hour and a half…I could not wait any longer and 23 my cellphone out to call the friend I had planned to meet that evening. An officer 24 over. “No Phone!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling terrorists and giving them 25.”
Oh, my! I was just a university professor. I had no 26 but to put my phone away. My husband and I were getting hungry and 27. I wanted to cry, to 28 onto a chair and shout: “I am but an American professor!”
After two hours in the back room, without explanation and 29, I was allowed to go after he gave me a piece of paper with a(n) 30 on it and told me I could write to the department if I wasn’t 31 with the treatment. He also 32 that nothing could stop it from happening again.
I shared my experience with my friends and the 33 was I should change my name. But name is personal, like the town you were born in.
Even though I had a troublesome experience at the airport, which made me realize being American could ever be so 34, like my father, I’ll keep the 35.
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Kathy ___ a lot of Spanish by playing with the native boys and girls.
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A．picked up |
B．took up |
C．made up |
D．turned up |
Everybody in the village likes Jack because he is good at telling and ___ jokes.
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A．turning up |
B．putting up |
C．making up |
D．showing up |
I work in a business ___ almost everyone is waiting for a great chance.
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A．how |
B．which |
C．where |
D．that |
Last moth, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ___ effects the people are still suffering.
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A．that |
B．whose |
C．those |
D．what |
