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全国
2007
年
4
月高等教育自学考试
英语阅读(一)试题
课程代码:
00595
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1.
CAREFUL
READING
Read the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answer and
write your answer in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.
(40 points, 2 points each)
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one’s mistakes .It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like “I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say,“ I was wrong, and you were right about that.”
I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely the incident he was describing.
I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident took place. There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work.
The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I were the culprit. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for the broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.
1
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How old was the author when he wrote this article?
A. About 8.
B. About 15.
C. About 18.
D. About 23.
2
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The stacks of cartons were actually knocked off by______________.
A. the author
B. the manager
C. a woman customer
D. the author’s mother
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