He broke in（ ）the conversation without waiting for me to stop talking. on

The difference between “gentlemaninwaiting” and “journeyman” is that .

［A］ education trained gentlemaninwaiting to climb higher ladders

［B］ journeyman was ready to take whatever was given to him

［C］ gentlemaninwaiting belonged to a fixed and high social class

［D］ journeyman could do practically nothing without education

A.broke away

B.broke up

C.broke down

D.broke out

My friend _____ me. I have to leave now.

A. waits for B. waited for C. is waiting for D. was waiting for

A、As possible

B、As follows

C、As a result

D、As a whole

A Arrived

B Arriving

C Being arrived

D To arrive

Passage Five

Danny was just tired about the way things were going. His mom came to the school and went on and on talking about Rick Jackson. It seemed that she would never stop talking. "Somebody's got to stop that boy!" she was shouting, "Rick's troubling everybody in the neighborhood. And he loves to pick on little boys like Danny."

Mrs. Green, Danny's teacher, was concerned a lot. "I didn't know that Danny was being picked on," she nswered. "He's never said anything about this to me!" Mrs. Green looked at Danny. "How long has this been going on?" She asked. Danny could only shake his head and look at the floor. He knew if he said a word about this, he would have trouble after school.

Danny hadn't said anything about the problem because he wanted to play with the boys in the neighborhood. After all, most of them were nice to him. He hated to leave the gang just because of Rick. Maybe the time had come to find new friends. He felt it hard to make up his mind.

52. We learn from the reading that______.

A. Danny was not a good student

B. Danny's mother talked too much about the school

C. Danny's teacher knew something about Danny's problem before

D. Danny wanted to get away from Rick

A、was put

B、drank

C、was drinking

A

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left at message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more and impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth...?

She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the test of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room----if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”

Then she turned to me. Kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.

After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight , I noticed that something in my mood (情绪) had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her anties helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him and talk to him calmly.

56. Why did the author shout at the telephone?

A. He was mad at the telephone.

B. He was angry with his agent.

C. He was anxious about his wife.

D. He was impatient with the secretary?

A.intrigued

B.introduced

C.informed

D.intervened

A. broke off

B. broke through

C. broke out

D. broke into