(1). Mr. Brown took the monkey’s glasses.
(2). The monkeys jumped up and down on the ground.
(3). The monkey took Mr. Brown’s glasses.
(4). Mr. Brown read the sign.
( )4. Which one is true?
(1). Mr. Brown took his glasses back and put them on to read the sign.
(2). Mr. Brown can see things clearly with his glasses.
(3). Mr. Brown’s glasses were eaten by a monkey.
(4). The monkeys in the cage enjoy putting visitors’ glasses on.
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Ketty was a pretty lady married to a doctor in a small town. Ketty’s husband was different from others. He was blind (瞎的) . He couldn’t see, but he had a very sharp (鋒利的) hearing. He could tell where you were from the sound you made. Ketty loved her husband but he was a very busy man. The doctor spent too much time on his patients (有耐的) instead of his lovely wife. So lonely was Ketty that when a handsome young clock-seller came to her, she could not control her feelings.
At the very beginning, Ketty ate dinner with the seller. Then they went shopping. Ketty began to sleep out and had to make excuses telling her husband why she had to stay out in a friend’s house. But no paper (紙) can hide (隱藏) fire (火) . It was a small town. The doctor knew all about these later, and was very angry. He wanted Ketty to come back to him, but Ketty said no. Ketty finally left her husband and lived with her young lover.
Then one day Ketty got a letter written by the doctor. "Let me have a duel (決鬥) with the clock-seller. I am blind so he’ll have to cover (覆蓋) a cloth on his eyes. Each one of us would carry an alarm clock. It would be set to make sounds in five minutes. On hearing the sounds, we should shoot at each other, and the loser would fall down,” said the doctor in the letter. Ketty told the clock-seller about the letter. She asked him not to go because she knew her lover could never win with eyes covered up. But the clock-seller insisted (堅決) on going. The night before the duel Ketty couldn’t fall asleep. She thought of both the past and the future. “It’s me that start the fight, and it’s going to be me to end the fight,” Ketty thought.
The duel took place in a big park at four o’clock in the early morning, Many people had all got
together to watch the fight. The blind doctor and the clock-seller stood there back to back with a gun in their hand and eyes covered. Each of them had in their jackets an alarm clock, which would make sounds in five minutes. Ketty was in the crowd (人群) watching. Soon the two fighters started to walk forward (向前) . There was no other sound except (除…之外) the wind and the heavy breath of the crowd.
Suddenly (突然的) one of the alarm clocks rang. Two Bang-Bangs were heard right after the sounds. But the doctor or the seller didn’t fall down. Under the very eyes of the people, Ketty fell down on the ground and died ! She had an alarm clock in her jacket and the clock was set to make sounds in one minute earlier than the doctor’s and the seller’s. Both of her lovers, new or old, shot her as soon as they heard the alarms.
( )1. Which was not true about the doctor?
(1). He was busy. (2). He loved Ketty;
(3). He could hear well. (4). He could also see well.
( )2. Which was not true about Ketty?
(1). She was killed at the duel.
(2). She loved the clock-seller at the first sight.
(3). She came back to the doctor at the end.
(4). She liked the seller more than the doctor.
( )3. Whose alarm clock made the first sound?
(1). Ketty’s. (2). The doctor’s.
(3). The seller’s. (4). A11 of the above.
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