一、完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The police got a report that six men had stopped a truck. It was ____1____ some goods and two bags full of something important. The six men were ____2____ when the police arrived. After searching for three hours, the police found the truck near the river. The ____3____ was sitting on a bag in the truck and his hands were tied behind his back. The thieves (窃贼) had tied a scarf round his mouth so that he couldn’t ____4____. The police climbed into the back of the truck and set the driver ____5____. They asked him ____6____ had happened.
“I was caught soon after I left the bank,” the driver explained. “Six men made me ____7____ to the river. ‘If you shout,’ one of them said, ‘we’ll ____8____ you.’ When I got to the river, they tied me up. Then they ____9____ me onto the back of the truck. There were two bags in it and they took one of them.”
“How much money was there in the bag?” a police officer asked.
“There wasn’t any money at all,” the driver ____10____. “It was full of letters. This one has all the money. I’ve been sitting on it for three hours!”
( ) 1. A. taking B. bringing C. carrying D. sending
( ) 2. A. arrested B. left C. lost D. gone
( ) 3. A. policeman B. driver C. man D. thief
( ) 4. A. shout B. think C. look D. smell
( ) 5. A. off B. away C. busy D. free
( ) 6. A. how B. everything C. that D. what
( ) 7. A. run B. look C. drive D. climb
( ) 8. A. contact B. kill C. tie D. attack
( ) 9. A. threw B. brought C. showed D. led
( ) 10. A. laughed B. shouted C. reported D. told

C
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; D
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; A

二、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
(A)
When Amanda of Tennessee dropped her 3-year-old son, Noah Clare, off at his father’s house for the weekend, she had no idea that the father was planning to kidnap the kid. After receiving a call from a relative, Amanda feared that she would never see her boy ever again.
The relative told the worried mother that Amanda’s former husband (前夫), Jake Clare, had disappeared with Noah and his cousin, 16-year-old Amber. Amber had left behind a note saying that they were “going on an adventure”.
“I was mad. I was scared. Is he really doing this?” Amanda said. “Maybe his mobile phone doesn’t have service. Maybe his mobile phone is broken. Am I ever going to see my boy again?”
An Amber Alert was finally issued (发布) for Noah, and the police searched far and wide. It seemed that Jake and the kids had disappeared without a trace (踪迹). Then a total stranger hundreds of miles away saw them near a park.
Julia Bonin of California was on her way to drop her son off at school when she saw Noah, Amber and Jake walking near the park. She had seen the Amber Alert online, and she felt that this was the missing boy from the news. After dropping off her son, Julia came back to the place and called the police.
When the police caught up with the group, they found Noah and Amber, and then they took Jake into custody (拘留). He faced serious charges back home in Tennessee.
( ) 1. Who is the suspect of the crime in the passage?
A. Amber. B. Jake Clare. C. Julia Bonin. D. Amanda.
( ) 2. Which of the following can describe Amanda’s feeling when hearing the bad news?
A. Angry. B. Nervous.
C. Sad. D. Worried.
( ) 3. What is the relationship between Julia Bonin and Noah?
A. Relatives. B. Neighbours.
C. Witness and victim. D. Policewoman and reporter.
( ) 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The police sent Noah home at the end of the story.
B. Noah could return to his father’s home again.
C. Julia Bonin succeeded in stopping a crime.
D. Amanda had to face serious charges.

B
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