北京师范大学网络教育———0492《大学英语三》阅读理解习题（11）
5. The best title for this passage is “Advantages of living in Bigcities”.
A. T B. F
答案：B
37. A man was traveling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the carand went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boystold him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, butthey took him to a circus which was near there. The owner of the elephantsaid,” I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thoughtthat your car was his chair, and he sat on it!" Then he gave the man aletter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all thedamage. When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers wouldnot believe his story. They said, "You sold your new car while you wereabroad and bought this old one”. It was only when the man showed them theletter from the circus man that they believed him.
1. The car was damaged because there was a traffic accident.
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答案：B
2. A man was traveling abroad in a red car.
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答案：A
3. The circus man said that he would pay for all of the damage.
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答案：A
4. When the man got back to his country, the customs officers didn'tbelieve his words.
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答案：A
5. The letter from the police made the officers believe him.
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答案：B
38. Bill and Fred are students, and they're good friends. They don't havemuch money, so when it is time for their holidays, Bill says, "Let's takeour holidays in a trailer, Fred. It's cheaper than a hotel. I can borrow myfather's trailer." Fred is very happy, and they begin their holidays.
They want to get up early the next morning to go fishing, but they don'thave a clock.
"That's all right, Bill." Fred says, "I put these smallpieces of bread on the roof(房顶) of the trailer at night and they will wake us up in themorning."
Bill is very surprised, but he doesn't say a word. Fred is right. Earlythe next morning, some small birds come down on the roof to eat the bread andthey make a lot of noise. Bill and Fred get up when they hear the noise.
1. A trailer is something like a house.
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答案：A
2. Bill and Fred take their holidays in a trailer because they do not haveenough money.
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答案：A
3. Their first problem is to find the place for their holiday.
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答案：B
4. Bill thinks out a good way to get up early.
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答案：B
5. The birds come down on the roof to eat the bread.
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答案：A
39. When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their timetelling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn’t that ourfriends are all very busy; it is just that we haven’t got a television. Peoplethink that we are very strange. “But what do you do in the evening?” they arealways asking. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. Wecertainly don’t spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cookingand painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages. This isparticularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays. I collect stampsand I’m always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to the musicand playing chess together．
Sometimes there are power cuts(断电) and we have no electricity in the house. This does notworry us; we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before.Our friends, however, are lost---no television! So they don’t know what to do.On such evenings our house is very full, and they all come to us. They all havea good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television,everybody talks and plays games．
1. Their friends don't like to stay at the couple's house as there is nota television.
A. T B. F
答案：A
2. The couple have not got a television, because they enjoy spendingevenings in their own ways.
A. T B. F
答案：A
3. At night when there is no electricity, the couple can do nothing butsit in silence.
A. T B. F
答案：B
4. The writer tries to tell us that life is enjoyable with many friends.
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答案：B
5. The best title for this passage may be “We Go Without Televisions”.
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答案：A
40. Bob was happy. He was at a new school, and the other students werefriendly. "Hi, Bob!" they said. But some students said, "Hi,Peter!" Bob didn't understand. He asked another student, "Why do somestudents call me Peter?"
"Oh, that's easy to answer," the students said. "Peter wasa student here last year. Now he goes to a different school. You look likePeter. Some students think that you're Peter."
Bob wanted to meet Peter. He got Peter's address from a student and wentto Peter's house. Peter opened the door. Bob couldn't believe his eyes. Helooked really like Peter! Bob and Peter had the same color eyes and the samesmile. They had the same black hair. They also had the same birthday. And theyboth were adopted（领养） by two different families.
Bob and Peter found out that they were twin brothers. Soon after the boyswere born, one family adopted Bob, and another family adopted Peter. Bob'sfamily never knew about Peter, and Peter's family never knew about Bob.
Bob and Peter's story was in the newspaper. There was a photo of Bob andPeter next to the story. A young man named John saw the photo in the newspaper.John couldn't believe his eyes. He looked really like Bob and Peter! He had thesame color eyes and the same smile. He had the same black hair. He had the samebirthday. And he, too, was adopted by another family.
Later John met Bob and Peter. When Bob and Peter saw John, they couldn'tbelieve their eyes. John looked really like them! Why did John look really likeBob and Peter? You can guess. Bob and Peter are not twins. Bob, Peter and Johnare triplets（三胞胎）.
1. Bob was happy at a new school.
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答案：A
2. Some students thought Bob was Peter.
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答案：A
3. Bob saw Peter at school.
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答案：B
4. John knew the story from a book.
