单选题
Mr. Smith lived in a house less than two miles from
his office. He was able to drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove
home in the middle of the day, he found that cars were parked on the road
outside his house and there was no room for his own. He had to drive two hundred
meters more before he could find a place to park his car. Then he had to walk
back home. This made him angry. Then, he set up a board in the
garden facing the road. It had two words "No Parking" on it, but nobody seemed
to notice (注意) it. If it was a blue board with the words "Police notice (告示): No
Parking", no car would be parked in front of his house, so Mrs. Smith suggested
that he make one like the police notice. Mr. Smith said he was not the police
and couldn't use the word "police". But he decided he must find a way out and
started thinking hard. Several days passed. Then one evening,
he showed his wife a new blue board with the words "Polite Notice: No Parking"
on it. "Oh!" Mrs. Smith said, "You told me you weren't going to use the word
'Police', but this is just like a police notice." "Is it?" Mr.
Smith asked, "Look again." Mrs. Smith started to laugh. "You are really very
clever."
单选题
Mr. Smith usually had his lunch ______
A. in his office.
B. at home.
C. outside his house.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 题目在问史密斯先生通常在哪里吃午饭。根据短文第一段的第二句“He was able to drive home every day for lunch．”意思是“他每天能开车回家吃午饭”可以知道答案应为[B]at home。
单选题
Mr. Smith parked his car two hundred meters away because ______
A. there was no police notice there.
B. he liked to walk home.
C. there was no room near his house.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 题干在问“为什么史密斯把车停在200米远的地方”。第一段的第四句话“He had to drive two hundred meters more before he could find a place to park his car．”意思是“他只能多开200多米才能找到停车的地方”。显然答案为[C]。
单选题
Why did people still park their cars in front of his house even after
Mr. Smith put up a board with the words "No Parking" on it? ______
A. It was not a police notice.
B. It was not a polite notice.
C. It was not painted blue.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 题目在问为什么在史密斯先生放了一个“不准停车”的牌子后仍然有人在他家门口停车。此题可以在第二段的第三句话“If it was a blue board with the words' Police notice：No Parking'，no car would be parked．”意思是“如果是警方的告示，人们可能就不会停车了”。所以史密斯的牌子当然没有人理会了。所以答案应为[A]。
单选题
At last Mr. Smith decided to put up a new notice. What did it look
like? ______
A. It had the right color.
B. It had the word "police" on it.
C. It looked just like a police notice.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 题目问的是史密斯先生后来竖起的牌子象什么。从史密斯夫人的话中，即短文第三段中可以找到答案：“but this is just like a police notice”，所以答案应为[C]。
单选题
What would people do when they saw Mr. Smith's new notice? ______
A. They would see that it was not a police notice.
B. They wouldn't park cars outside Mr. Smith's house.