[A]Park Deep was 6,000 feet down underground.

[B]180 people were in Park Deep every day and night.

[C]All miners had to work every night.

[D]Bill Trew preferred to work on night shift.

32.Which statement is TRUE about Bill Trew?

[A]Bill had an unusual dream one night.

[B]Bill saw a throbbing blue light in his dream.

[C]Bill was sick and had to send for a doctor.

[D]Bill planned to go to work with closed eyes.

33.The blueness ____.

[A]was gone when he closed his eyes

[B]became alive at 11 o'clock

[C]grew brighter as the day grew darker

[D]enabled Bill to see clearly in the evening

34.The purpose of the last paragraph is to stress ___.

[A]how the explosion killed 179 miners

[B]what happened in the deep grave

[C]why Bill didn't go to work that night

[D]how the strange blue light saved Bill's life

35.A good title for this passage would be ___.

[A]A Warning      [B]Bill's Night Shift

[C]An Explosion   [D]Park Deep

Passage 2

Generally speaking, the British Isles have a temperate( 温和 ) climate, not an extreme one. The prevailing( 盛行 ) winds over Britain are southwesterly ones. The weather from day to day is variable, because it is controlled by depressions( 低气压 )from the Atlantic Ocean which, moving in a northeasterly or easterly direction, pass over or near the British Isles. Occasionally during winter months, between early December and the middle of March, northern winds may sometimes prevail, bringing cold weather and snowfalls which may last for several days or even 2 or 3 weeks, but seldom more than that. The English spring is very changeable, with warm and cold days in between until June. After the first week of May, you can take off your overcoats once and for all until the middle of October. But you certainly have to keep your raincoats and umbrellas close at hand, in any case.

There is always plenty of rain in Britain the whole year round. As a rule, the month with the least rainfall is July. At best, out of the 31 days of July, you might get 21 days of dry weather and sunshine. In July of 1973, London did not se a single drop of rain, but that was a rare exception. At that time, foreign tourists kept on asking the British where they had “ imported ” their sunshine form. Throughout the British Isles there is an annual rainfall of about 110 centimeters. England alone gets 89 centimeters  annually of that British total. One an average, May to July are the driest months in England, and November to early March the wettest .A period of as long as 3 weeks without rain is exceptional and normally confined to limited areas like the coasts of southwest England,  Wales and the west coast of Scotland. June and July are the months of longest sunlight: from about 4:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.