填空题If he had taken his lawyer’s advice, he (save) ____ himself a great deal of trouble.

A. let off

B. let over

C. let in

D. let out

If he my advice, he wouldn't have lost his job.

A. followed

B. should follow

C. had followed

D. would follow

54. The manager called my neighbor in when he saw him because______.

A. he didn’t have enough shoes for his customers(顾客)

B. my neighbor’s mother had taken a wrong pair of shoes

C. there was something wrong with his check

D. he found it hard to satisfy his customers

A certain lawyer lived in a city in the north of India.One day he had his photograph taken.In the photograph he appeared wearing English clothes, coat, waistcoat, trousers.boots collar and tie.And over them was his lawyer's gown.And his two hands were in his trouser pockets.

He was pleased with the photograph, and used to show it to his friends.All of them praised it, and said it was very good and very life-like.

One day he was showing the photograph to some of his friends in his office.As they were looking at it, a Pathan (帕坦人), who had just appeared in a case, came in.

He also looked at the photograph, and they asked him how he liked it.

“Not at all,” replied the Pathan.“It is not at all life-like.”

“Why? What is the matter?” they all cried.“We think it a very good likeness.What fault do you find with it?”

“Well, just look at it,” he replied.“Where are the man's hands?”

“They are in his pockets,” said they.

“In whose pockets?” asked the Pathan.

“In his own, of course,” replied they.

“Well, that is just where the picture is wrong.I know it to my cost.His hands should be in someone else's pockets.”

1.From the passage we may infer that().

A.the lawyer was good-looking but he didn't come out well in that photo

B.the lawyer was a good-natured gentleman who knew how to take a joke

C.the lawyer's greed led him to charge his client far too much

D.the lawyer was found to have stolen from people's pockets

C

2.The Pathan().

A.played a joke on the lawyer

B.found out what the lawyer was realy like

C.tried to turn the lawyer's friends against him

D.was always finding fault with lawyers

B

3.The Pathan learned where the picture was wrong from().

A.the lawyer's friends

B.his own experience

C.the lawyer's clients

D.the lawyer himself

B

4.The word "life-like" in the second paragraph means().

A.alike

B.living

C.like a good-looking person

D.very much like the person presented

Wolfgang's father told him he couldn't play the piano yet because______.

A. his sister was taking lessons

B. he had to help his mother

C. he was too small

D. he had to wait for his sister to finish practising

A. took place

B. had taken place

C. were taken place

D. had been taken place

Mr. Green, was worried because ______.

A. he was driving along a lonely road

B. he had taken a stranger in his car

C. he saw a police-car

D. he was afraid that the man might rob him

At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. Get out of the classroom into a job, it said, and Ron obeyed. His father, supporting the decision, found a place for him in a supermarket.

You’re lucky, Ron, he said. For every boy with a job these days, there's a dozen without. So Ron joined the working world at twenty pounds a week.

For a year he spent his days filing shelves with tins of food. By the end of that time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety(多样性) and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.

One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart ad a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a caf é run by an elderly man and his wife.

Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the restof the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron’s breath away. At quite times Ron had to check the old man’s arithmetic in the records of the business.

At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of 17 to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for 3 weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; he was the only one who could keep the books.

(1)Ron Jackie left school at sixteen because _______.

A、his father made him leave

B、he didn't want to stay in school

C、he was worried about the future

D、he could earn a lot of money in the supermarket

(2)What did Ron’s father think about his leaving school?

A、He thought his son was doing the right thing.

B、He advised him to stay at school to complete his education.

C、He was against it.

D、He knew there was a job for every boy who wanted one.

(3)After a year, Ron to realize that ________.

A、he was interested in the job

B、his work at the supermarket was dull

C、being at work was much better than going to school

D、the store manager wanted to get rid of him

(4)Ron left the supermarket because ______.

A、he knew he would find work in Bournemouth

B、he took a job as lorry driver

C、he gave up the job because he felt unwell

D、he wanted to work at the seaside

(5)Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because ________.

A、he got on well with the manager there

B、he knew how to keep the accounts of the business

C、he had had experience of selling books

D、he was young and strong

A、news

B、idea

C、thought

D、report

Tom's parents died when he was young, so he was ______ by his uncle.

A、brought up

B、brought out

C、grown up

D、taken out