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A：T B：F
42、Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became 答案：A a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (2)、Martin Luther King was a black minister only. King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. A：T B：F When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's idea of non-violent 答案：B resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and (3)、Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday religious leader of the non-violent civil relights for more than 40 years. movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 A：T B：F
Americans on a march in Washington . to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and 答案：A delivered his best known speech \the Lincoln Memorial. The \is a dream of brotherly (4)、The underlined word \in the second love and equality for the Black and White. Thus, he was paragraph could be replaced by \ awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was A：T B：F murdered four years later.
Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by 答案：A
the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of (5)、The best title for this passage is \Rights Law\
Congress in 1968, the third Monday of every January is now a federal holiday in Luther King's honor. He lives in A：T B：F people's hearts forever.
答案：B
(1)、Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.
43、A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James 答案：B is up for sale. He is going to sell it because it is haunted (闹鬼的). He told me that he could not go to sleep one night (4)、Mr. James found sixty empty bottles. because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. The A：T B：F
next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr. James 答案：B had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty (5)、The writer of the passage believes Mr. James' story. whisky bottles which the ghost (鬼) must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must A：T B：F have come in for a free drink, he shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept it even 答案：B if he gives it away. (1)、Mr. James was the owner of the public house. 44、Great changes have been made in family life because
of science and industry.
A：T B：F
In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the
答案：A typical family had many children. In a farm family,
parents and their children often lived with grandparents.
(2)、Mr. James had not turned off the lights that night.
Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in A：T B：F
American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the 答案：B
land and to move again whenever necessary. And large
(3)、Mr. James built the house. families can not be moved from place to place as smaller
families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller
A：T B：F
families.
In the future, because of industrialization, a A：T B：F typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical 答案：B family may remain childless and consists only of a man and (5)、Large families cannot fit in with a highly
a woman. A small number of families may take child raising industrialized society.
as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those families free to A：T B：F move from job to job.
答案：A
(1)、The passage discusses influence of science and industry on American families. A：T B：F 答案：A
45、My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it and I washed a lot of things.
Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's
(2)、Families of the past, the present and the future are socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't
find it anywhere. described in the passage. A：T B：F 答案：A
The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them first and then told them what we were going to do that day.
(3)、People no longer want to have children. When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the
class broke out a roar!
A：T B：F
They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in
答案：B
fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be into seeing all this.
(4)、Grandparents will take the chief responsibility of raising children in the future.
I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the 答案：A more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them (3)、She couldn't find one of her husband's socks, because and I continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, her husband had taken it away. they roared even more.
Finally, the teacher who had the room next to mine came A：T B：F
in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came 答案：B
in, he started laughing, too!
(4)、The teacher from the next room laughed, because he
\found a sock on the back of the writer's skirt.
what is so funny\
A：T B：F
\to the back of your skirt!\
答案：A So that's how I found my husband's missing sock.
(5)、The students told her about the laughing.
\A：T B：F have had an unforgettable lesson on static (静止的) electricity.\ 答案：B (1)、The writer was a teacher. A：T B：F
46、Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris
bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were 答案：A
standing in line, others were walking around. There was
(2)、When the writer turned around to write on the a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep blackboard, the class began to laugh loudly. them in line. Tom looked around, but there was no place
for him to sit.
A：T B：F
He walked into the station cafe. He looked up at the (3)、When Tom looked at the clock in the mirror, it's clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat actually half past twelve. and sat down before a large mirror on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom's workmates came in and sat with Tom. A：T B：F
\答案：A of time yet\
(4)、From the story we know that when we look at a clock
\ in a mirror, we will find it's going backward. They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the A：T B：F clock again. \答案：A
minutes ago it was twenty to twelve, and now it's half past eleven.\
(5)、Tom arrived in Paris on time. \looking at the clock in the mirror.\said Mike. A：T B：F Tom was so sad. The next bus was not to leave for another hour. Since then Tom has never liked mirrors. 答案：B
(1)、Tom went into the station cafe because Mike asked him to have a cup of tea.
47、My Aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very A：T B：F
serious heart disease.
答案：B
Aunt Edith didn't accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in the library and found an (2)、Tom and Mike talked while drinking.
article in a magazine about a well-known heart surgeon,
A：T B：F Dr. Michael DeBakey, of Houston, Texas. He had saved the
life of someone with the same disease. The article said
答案：A
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