北京师范大学网络教育———0492《大学英语三》阅读理解习题（44）
答案：A
5. Black snowfell only in European Countries.
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答案：B
161. Johnnylived with his mother and father in a small town in the mountains.
One day there was an earthquake near thetown. Many houses were broken. Everyone thought that there would soon beanother earthquake.
They were worried that the secondearthquake would be worse than the first. "We must send Johnny to a safeplace," Johnny's mother said to her husband. "Many of our friends aresending their children to relatives in other towns." "We'll send himto my brother, Peter," Johnny's father said. "He lives a long wayaway. Johnny will be safe with him."
He telephoned Johnny's uncle Peter andasked him if he would let Johnny live with him. "He is a good boy,"he said. "He won't give you any trouble." "All right,"Johnny's uncle Peter said. "But I'm not used to children. I live a veryquiet and peaceful life." "You won't know Johnny's in thehouse," his father told him. So Johnny, who was eight, went to live withhis uncle.
Two days later, his mother and fatherreceived a telegram from Peter. It said, "A returning child. Please sendearthquake."
1. Johnny andhis parents lived in the mountains.
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答案：A
2. Johnny'sparents sent him away because they did not want him to get hurt.
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答案：A
3. Uncle Peterliked to live with Johnny very much.
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答案：B
4. Uncle Petersent Johnny back home because there was an earthquake in his town.
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答案：B
5. Johnnycertainly made some trouble in his uncle's house.
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答案：A
162. One day in1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had astudent who finished his work before all the others and needed something moredifficult for him to do. “Could you help me in the library?” she asked. I said,“Send him along.”
Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. “Doyou have a job for me?” he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books.He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for someunreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe somebooks were put on wrong places. He said, “Is it a kind of a detective （侦探） job?” I answered yes, and then began his work.
He had found three books with wrongcards by the time his teacher opened the door and said, “Time for rest!” heargued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won.
The next morning, he arrived early, “Iwant to finish these books,” he said. At the end of the day, when he asked towork with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.
After a few weeks I found a note on mydesk, inviting me to dinner at the boy's home. At the end of a pleasantevening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school.Her son's first concern, she said, was leaving the library. “Who will find thelost books?” he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye. Thoughat the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interesthad made him different.
Do you know who he is? This boy became agreat man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.
1. The teacherwent to the library to find a job for Bill Gates.
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答案：A
2. The librarianwas too busy to have a rest.
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答案：B
3. The sentence"He picked up the idea immediately" means that he learned that systemquickly.
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答案：A
4. Bill Gateswas expected to find books with wrong cards.
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答案：A
5. Bill Gatesfelt sad when his family would move to another school area.
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答案：B
163. We werelate as usual. My husband had insisted on watering the flowers in the garden byhimself, and when he discovered that he couldn't manage he had asked me forhelp at the last moment. So now we had an hour to get to the airport. Luckily,there were not many cars or buses on the road and we were able to get therejust in time. We checked in and went straight to a big hall to wait for ourflight to be called. We waited and waited but no announcement was made. Weasked for information and the girl there told us that the plane hadn't evenarrived yet. In the end there was another announcement telling us thatpassengers waiting for Flight LJ108 could get a free meal voucher (凭单) and that the plane hadn't left Spainfor technical problems. We thought that meant that it wasn't safe for the planeto fly. We waited again for a long time until late evening when we were askedto report again. This time we were given free vouchers to spend the night in anearby hotel.
The next morning after a bad nightbecause of all the planes taking off and landing, we reported back to theairport. Guess what had happened while we were asleep! Our plane had arrivedand taken off again. All the other passengers had been woken up in the night tocatch the plane, but for some reason or other we had been forgotten. You canimagine how we felt!
1. The plane thewriter and her husband would take was not to leave till the next morning.
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答案：B
2. The plane wasdelayed because something was wrong with the machine.
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答案：A
3. Thepassengers were given a free meal because they arrived at the airport early.
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答案：B
4. They were ina big hall, waiting for their flight to be announced.
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答案：A
5. The writerand her husband missed the plane because they forgot the time.
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答案：B
