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The other
day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he
told me that he had a
good 1 in
Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I 2
to know him . For a
moment, I thought
he might be 3 ,but I could tell from the
expression on his face
that he was not.
He was 4 . I felt like saying that it was
ridiculous (
可笑的
) to 5
that out of all the millions of people
in Chicago I could possibly have ever bumped
into his friend. But, 6 , I just
smiled and reminded him that Chicago was a very
7
city. He nodded, and I thought he
was going to be content to drop the subject and
talk
about something else. But I was
wrong. He was silent for a few minutes, and then
he
8 to tell me all about his
friend.
His friend’s main
9 in life seemed to be tennis. He was an
excellent tennis
player , and he 10
had his own tennis court. There were a lot of
people with
swimming 11 , yet there
were only two people with private tennis court;
his friend
in Chicago was one of them.
I told him that I knew several 12 like that,
including
my brother, who was doctor in
California. He 13 that maybe there were more
private courts in the country, than he
14 but he did not know of any others. Then he
asked me 15 my brother lived in
California. When I said Sacramento, he said that
was a coincidence 16 his Chicago
friend spent the summer in Sacramento last year
and he lived next door to a 17 who
had a tennis court in his backyard. I said I felt
that really was a coincidence
(
巧合
) because my next-door
neighbour had gone to
Sacramento last
summer and had 18
the house next to
my brother’s house. For a
moment, we
stared at each other, but we did not say anything.
“Would your friend’s name happen to be
Roland Kirkwood?” I asked fina
lly. He
19
and said, “Yes. Would
your brother’s name happen to be Dr Rey Hunter?”
It was
my 20
to laugh.
“Yes,” I replied.
1. A. brother
B. teacher
C. neighbour
D.
friend
2. A.
managed
B. happened
C. tried
D.
wanted
3. A. expecting
B. lying
C. joking
D. talking
4. A. funny
B. serious
C. careful
D. disappointed
5. A. think
B. find
C. realize
D. see
6. A.
indeed
B. actually
C. instead
D.
exactly
7. A. famous
B. interesting
C. noisy
D. big
8. A. began
B. stopped
C. refused
D. failed
9. A. problem
B.
interest
C.
choice
D.
work
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10. A. just
B. ever
D. surely
11. A. suit
B. habit
D.
river
12. A. people
B. players
13.
A. advised
B. argued
D. announced
14. A. recognized
B.
realized
found
15. A. how
B. whether
D.
where
16. A. because
B. if
D. though
17.
A. doctor
B. friend
18. A. hired
B. visited
D. sold
19. A. smiled
B. laughed
nodded
20. A. chance
B. pleasure
D. turn
阅读理解
C. even
C. pools
C.
strangers
D. friends
C. admitted
C. visited
D.
C. when
C.
then
C. neighbour
D. player
C.
designed
C. cried
C. time
D.
It happened to me recently. I was telling someone
how much I had enjoyed reading
Barack
Obama
’
s Dreams
From My Father
and how it had changed
my views of our
President. A friend I
was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his
words,
“
a
brillia
ntly
（精彩地）
written
book
”
. However, he then went
on to talk about Mr
Obama in a way
which suggested he had no idea of his background
at all. I sensed
that I was talking to
a book liar.
And it seems that my
friend is not the only one. Approximately two
thirds of people
have lied about
reading a book which they
haven
’
t. In the World Book
Day
’
s
“
Report
on Guilty
Secrets
”
,
Dreams
From My Father
is at number 9. The
report lists ten
books, and various
authors, which people have lied about reading, and
as I
’
m not one
to
lie too often (I
’
d hate to
be caught out), I
’
ll admit
here and now that I haven
’
t
read
the entire top ten. But I am
pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people,
I have
read the book at number one,
George Orwell
’
s 1984. I
think it
’
s really brilliant.
The World Book Day report also has some
other interesting information in it. It
says that many people lie about having
read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor
Dostoevsky (I
haven
’
t read him, but
haven
’
t lied about it
either) and Herman Melville.
Asked why
they lied, the most common reason was to
“
impress
”
someone they
were speaking to. This
could be tricky if the conversation became more
in-depth!
But when asked which authors
they actually enjoy, people named J.K. Rowling,
John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the
big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent
of people asked admitted they turned to
the back of the book to read the end before
finishing the story
(I
’
ll come clean: I do this
and am astonished that 58 percent said
they had neve done so).
21.
How did the author find his friend a book liar?
A. By judging his manner of speaking
B. By looking into his background
C. By mentioning a famous name
D. By discussing the book
itself
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