阅读下列短文，然后从A、B、C、D中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。
（A）
The humorous story may be a GREat length，and may wander around as much as it pleases，and arrive nowhere in particular；but the comic story and the witty（诙谐的）story must be brief and end with a point．The humorous story laughs gently along，the other two burst．
The humorous story is strictly a work of art—high and fine art—and only an artist can tell it；but no art is necessary in telling comic and witty stories；anybody can do it．The art of telling a humorous story—I mean by word of mouth，not print—was created in America，and has remained at home there．
The humorous story is told seriously；the teller does his best to hide the fact that he even dimly（朦胧地）knows that there is anything funny about it；but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard，then tells it with eager de- light，and is the first person to laugh when he gets through．Sometimes，if he has been successful，he is so glad and happy that he will repeat the“main point”of it and look around from face to face，collecting applause（掌声），and then repeat it again．
71．Which story takes the longest to tell and has no particular point？
A．The humorous story．
B．The comic story．
C．The witty story．
D．All above three．
72．The underlined word“burst”in the first paragraph means ____ ．
A．burst into tears
B．burst into laughter
C．burst out crying
D．shouted loudly
73．The teller of a humorous story ____ ____ ．
A．laughs at his own joke
B．is very serious when he tells it
C．repeats it several times
D．is concerned about the reaction（反应）of his listeners
74．The teller of a comic story ____ ____ ．
A．tells it only once
B．doesn't care whether his listeners enjoy it or not
C．tells the listeners beforehand that his story is funny
D．is very serious when telling it
（B）
My sisters and I had had fine dreams of a home in the city，but when the Alcott family found itself in a small house at the South End with not a tree in sight，only a back yard to play in，and no money to buy any of the good things before us，we children all rebelled and longed for the country again．
Anna soon found little pupils，and walked heavily away each morning to her job，pausing at the corner to wave her hand to me in answer to my salute with the duster．My father went to his classes at his room downtown，mother to her all-absorbing poor，the little girls to school，and I，Louisa，was left to keep house，feeling like a caged seagull as I washed dishes and cooked in the kitchen．
My only comfort was the evening reunion，when all met with such different reports of the day's adventures，we could not fail to find both amusement and instruction（教育）．
Father brought news from the upper world．Mother，usually in old and poor clothing because she would give away her clothes，brought sad tales of suffering and sin（犯罪）from the darker side of life．Gentle Anna would modestly talk about her success as a teacher，for even at seventeen her sweet nature won all who knew her．
My reports were usually a mixture of the tragic（悲剧）and the comic，and the children poured their small joys and sorrows into the family where comfort and sympathy（同情）were always to be found．
75．The main idea we get from this reading is that the Alcotts were ______ ．
A．a family with lots of serious problems
B．a happy，united family
C．a very sad family
D．a family that remained in the country
76．Louisa's mother gave herself up to．
A．students
B．poor people
C．housework
D．her husband and children
77．Louisa's job was____ ．
A．to cook
B．to wash dishes
C．to run the house
D．to feed the seagulls
78．Louisa looked forward to ____ ．
A．getting together with the others in the evening
B．joining Anna at her school
C．moving to the city
D．keeping house
（C）
The law is a GREat mass of rules，showing when and how far a person should be punished，or to be made to hand over money or property（财产）to his neighbors，and so on．These rules are contained in books．A lawyer learns them generally by reading books．
He begins by doing little else than reading，and after he has prepared himself by，say，three years'study to practise，still，all his life long and almost every day，he will be looking into books to read a little more than he already knows about some new questions which he has to answer．
The power to use books，then，is the ability which the would-be lawyer ought to have．He ought to have enough flexibility（适应性）to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words．He ought to have some readiness in finding what a book contains，and something of an instinct（本能）for where to look for what he wants．
But although this is the power of which he will first feel the need，it is not the most important．A lawyer does not study law to recite it；he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life．His business is to try cases in court（法庭）and to advise people what to do，in order to keep out or get out of trouble．He studies his books in order to advise and to try his cases in the right way．
79．The first thing a law student has to do is to ____ ．
A．read books
B．practise law
C．hand over money
D．answer questions
80．After three years of reading，______ ．
A．he can study law
B．he still has to continue reading
C．he can stop reading
D．he is able to give intelligent answers
81．The principal business of a lawyer is ____ ．
A．to discuss the material he has read
B．to learn about real life
C．to advise people who have legal problems
D．to study the law
82．A good lawyer should know how to ____ ．
A．analyze and interpret what he reads
B．collect ideas
C．be flexible in all things
D．be powerful
（D）
When Fiona Hatton's mother became ill with cancer，Ms．Hatton did not know very much about the illness．
“My mother didn't smoke and her diet was good，”says Fiona．“I went with her to talk to the doctor and it was obvious that the doctor was puzzled about what had caused her cancer．”
As a result of this，Fiona decided to raise money to build a research center．The target（目标）was ￡15million，but she expects to get much more．
In a careers analysis（问卷调查分析），Fiona once scored 95％for persuasiveness—and this proved very helpful in her taking part in Comic Relief and British Film Year，which were both events where the public were persuaded to give money to charities（慈善事业）—and they gave more money than people thought possible．
Today the publicity campaign（宣传运动）for Trading places has begun across the country．On February 27th，hundreds of famous people and other members of the public will pretend to be someone else for the day：they will dress in their clothes，make themselves look like other persons and do their job．
To find out how you can exchange places with someone else and raise money for Cancer Research，phone 071—445—5511．
83．What is Fiona very good at？ She is good at ____ ．
A．selling goods
B．making money for her family
C．making people believe in her
D．raising money for a film company
84．Why did Fiona want to raise money？ Because she wanted to ____ ．
A．save her mother
B．set up a center to study cancer
C．help the poor
D．play a part in a film
85．If you want to help raise money，you ____ according to the passage．
A．must be a company manager
B．should have plenty of money
C．should take part in Trading places
D．have to be good-looking and funny
86．From the passage，we know that ____ ．
A．the doctor knew the cause of Fiona's mother's illness
B．Fiona hopes to raise as much as ￡15million
C．Comic Relief and British Film Year are very good chances to raise money
D．the public just pretend to give money
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87．The advertisement on the left is about ____ ．
A．offering chances to study at the university
B．graduation from the university
C．looking for jobs for students from the university
D．the history of the university
88．In which country is the university？ ______ ．
A．The USA B．Britain C．Hull D．We don't know
89．If you want to study history，you should call ____ ．
A．01482—466103
B．01482—466104
C．01482—466105
D．any of the above numbers
90．How many different ways are there in which you can get in touch with the university if you want to enter？ ______ ．
A．One B．Two C．Three D．Four
参考答案：
71．A72．B73．B74．C75．B76．B77．C78．A79．A80．B81．C82．A83．C 84．B85．C86．C87．A88．B89．B90．D
