Question

For many years Henry had been a journalist. He had worked on many international news?papers and magazines and traveled all over the world.

Henry had witnessed wars and natural disasters such as floods,earthquakes and erupting volcanoes.

He had reported on serious accidents such as major fires and airline crashes. He had seen every kind of terrible crime and strange event there was. He had met and written about some of the most unusual people in the world. In fact,there wasn't much that Henry had not seen or done.

Now he was retired from journalism (新聞業(yè)) .He owned a very expensive restaurant and spent his days talking to his wealthy and important customers. He liked to say that nothing sur?prised him.

One day he was sitting at the bar in his restaurant when a big gorilla walked in and asked for a table. Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant. The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad.

Henry served the gorilla his salad personally,knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened. At last the gorilla finished his salad and asked for the bill. Henry wrote out the bill and handed it to the big animal. The gorilla studied it,shook his head sadly,then gave Henry fifty dollars. "Thank you," Henry said,and then to make conversation he added, "We don't get many gorillas in this restaurant."

"At fifty dollars for a salad," the gorilla said, "I'm not surprised."

(   ) 1. What does the underlined word " witnessed" mean?

   A. Perceived. B. Spectated. C. Observed. D. Identified.

(   ) 2. According to the passage,Henry,as a journalist for many years,had         .

   A. had the most unusual experiences   B. traveled all over the world

   C. made great achievements in his career   D. seen and done everything

(   ) 3. From the sentence "Henry served the gorilla his salad personally,knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened"，you learn that         .

   A. his staff were not brave enough

   B. Henry didn't normally serve customers

   C. Henry was very glad to serve a gorilla

   D. his staff were frightened when seeing Henry serving

(   ) 4. What does the last sentence of the passage imply?

   A. The higher the price is,the more the consumers are.

   B. The lower the price is,the fewer the consumers are.

   C. The more gorillas come,the more complicated the problem is.

   D. The fewer gorillas come,the simpler the answer is.

Answer 1

 AABD

一只大猩猩來飯店吃飯，引起一陣慌亂。但Henry處事不俅，親自為其服務(wù)，多年的工作經(jīng)歷在此派上用場。

1. A詞義猜測題。

perceive是witness的同義詞。

spectate出席、觀看;observe觀察、注意到；identify識別,認(rèn)同，均不能表達(dá)同樣的意義。

2. A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。

3. B推理判斷題。由于Henry是老板，通常情況下不會親自為客人服務(wù)。

4. D段落理解題。 Henry認(rèn)為大猩猩來吃飯很少見，而大猩猩卻以為，這么貴的食物誰還敢來呀。