单选题 Questions 14-23
·Look at the ten statements for this part.
·You will hear a story about communication through time.
·Decide whether you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W) or not mentioned(NM).
·You will listen to it twice.
·Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

单选题 Andrew was on his way to Beaver Creek to attend a three-day annual meeting.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文] 14-23
A Sound Sleeper

According to Andrew, it never would have happened if he had not had a fiat tire on Highway 10 last night at about 7:30. He was on his way to Beaver Creek to attend a three-day sales meeting when he had the fiat. Unfortunately, he did not have a spare, so he pushed the car off the road, locked it up, and managed to thumb a ride back to Pine Grove. It was after eleven o'clock when he finally got home, and it was then that his real problems started.
When Andrew left home at about 5:30,he had told his wife not to expect him back until Thursday or Friday.Knowing that his wife was nervous about staying in the house alone at night, Andrew took the precaution of checking all the windows in the house to be sure they were locked. so that he could report to his wife that the house was secure.He convinced his wife that the house was burglar-proof,and that she would be perfectly safe,providing she bolted the front door as soon as he drove away.
Andrew’s only thought as he made his way in the dark to his front door was how surprised his wife was going to be to see him,since he was not supposed to be back until Thursday or Friday.He had forgotten about the bolt on the front door.When he turned his key in the lock and the door wouldn’t budge,he remembered the bolt.And he remembered that he had carefully locked all of the windows.
Although Andrew didn’t know it at the time,a next-door neighbor had seen him approaching the house and had watched him go up the steps to the front door.In the dark,it was impossible for the neighbor to recognize Andrew,and,besides,the neighbor knew that Andrew had gone out-of-town for a three-day meeting.As a matter of fact,Andrew had asked the neighbor to keep an eye on the house while he was gone.
Finding that he couldn’t get in by the front door,and knowing that there was no Dossibility of getting in through a window,Andrew began pounding on the front door to get his wife to open the door According to Andrew,however,his wife is a very sound sleeper,and he knew it was gOing to be hard to wake her up.In the meantime,because of all the noise he had been making.the neighbor was convinced that somebody was trying to break into the house;so she called the police.
When we talked to Andrew at the country jail this morning,he said that he still didn't understand how the police managed to circle the house without his seeing them.He stated that he had decided the only way to get in was to break one of the dining room windows.and that he was about to hurl his briefcase into the window to break it when two of the officers grabbed him from behind.
Andrew could not make the officers believe that he lived there;so they took him off to jail Apparently, he did succeed in convincing them that they ought to wake up the woman in the house to check his story.But there was no answer when they knocked at the door.He tried to explain to them that his wife was a very sound sleeper, but they concluded there was nobodv in the house.

[解析] 在文中开始部分我们听到的是sales meeting,即销售会议,而不是annual meeting(年会),故B为正确答案。
单选题 As Andrew had a flat tire on the way be asked for a lift to go back home.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 文中提到的是“…so he pushed the car off the road,locked it up,and managed to thumb a ride back to Pine Grove”。从上下文得知,Andrew要去开会的地方叫做Beaver Creek,而他的家在Pine Grove。由于他的车胎漏气且没有备用轮胎,只好锁车回家。thumb a ride back to…为“在路边伸出拇指表示要搭车”,此短语与ask for a lift同义,故A为正确答案。
单选题 Because of the flat tire, Andrew had to sleep in the car all night.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据上一题的解释,Andrew并没有留在车里,而是要搭车回家,故B为正确答案。
单选题 In order to allay his wife's fears, Andrew checked the windows to make sure that they were burglar-proof.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 文中的第2小节提到Andrew在离开前关好所有门窗并向他妻子保证不会进小偷,才让妻子锁好前门后离开。故A为正确答案。
单选题 When Andrew was approaching his house, he was nervous and worried.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 因为Andrew的车漏气,他不得不回家,这时他想的是他的妻子见到他会很惊讶,从“how surprised his wife was going to be to see him”,得出Andrew并不是nervous and worried,故B为正确答案。
单选题 Andrew forgot about the fact that his wile had bolted the door after he had left.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 文中听到的一句是“He convinced his wife that the house was burglar-proof, and that she would be perfectly safe,providing she bolted the front door as soon as he drove away.”和“He had forgotten about the bolt on the front door.When he turned his key in the lock and the door wouldn't budge,he remembered the bolt”,得知他忘了让妻子把门锁好这回事了,所以A为正确答案。
单选题 The neighbor didn't recognize Andrew because he wasn't wearing his glasses.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 从文中的“In the dark,it was impossible for the neighbor to recognize Andrew”得知,他的邻居没认出他来是因为天太黑了,不是因为邻居没戴眼镜,故B为正确答案。
单选题 The neighbor took Andrew for a burglar.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 因为邻居没认出Andrew,并且由前文可知,Andrew还在临走前交代邻居帮忙照看,故邻居看到Andrew的黑影想破门而入时,自然地认为Andrew就是小偷。故A正确。
单选题 The police officers take Andrew off to jail because they concluded that Andrew's story was a sheer invention.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 从文中的最后部分得知“Andrew could not make the officers believe that he lived there”,尽管Andrew极力解释自己的情况,但警方还是不相信,认为他的故事纯属胡编乱造,把他带到了监狱。故A正确。
单选题 The police later asked the neighbor about Andrew.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 文中最后并没有提到警方是否询问了邻居,故C为正确答案。