单选题
Peter"s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming
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the hill towards the frontier,
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a bike with a pile of goods of old straw on it. When the bike
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the frontier, Peter would stop the man and
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him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the straw very
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to see
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he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man"s pockets
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he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always
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to find gold or other valuable things
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in the straw, he never found
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. He was sure the man was
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something, but he was not
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to think out what it could be. Then one evening, after he had looked
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the straw and emptied the worker"s pockets
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usual, he
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to him, "Listen, I know you are smuggling things
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this frontier. Won"t you tell me what it is? I"m an old man, and today"s my last day on the
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. Tomorrow I"m going to
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. I promise I shall not tell
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if you tell me what you"ve been smuggling." The worker did not say anything for
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. Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, "Bikes."
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 逻辑推理题。由下文第五句“The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it.”可知，这个工人越过边界后，走下山坡，所以到达边界之前应该是朝山坡上走。故选up。
【答案解析】[解析] 词义辨析题。由句意可知，这个工人回答彼得的问题之前沉默了一会儿。for a moment：片刻，一会，A项缺少冠词a，故排除。for a long time：很久；for sometime：表示过去或将来某时，这两项均不合题意。for some time表示一段时间或一会儿。故D项为正确选项。