单选题 As I left home after breakfast, I trembled. I was gloomy at the thought that for me this Sunday morning was not the reading of the Sunday papers to cups of tea. I had to sell ice-cream in winter because I had to pay the school fees which was due next month.
The first day was long and lonely. I had to learn to manage my heavy vehicle — the ice-cream cabinet was at the back -- on the icy roads and at the same time try to remember my route and stopping places. Until the late afternoon I had very few customers.
During the next two weeks I was twice caught in heavy snowstorms; in both cases in late afternoon when dusk was falling. The first time, fortunately, I had with me an experienced senior inspector who showed me how to get up a hill in deep snow. He skillfully drove the vehicle to an acute angle to the pavement and used the angle for the rear wheels to push against. We gradually went up the hill — even if rather hard.
The second time I found myself stuck in a valley from which all roads led steeply, and I finished up with the vehicle at an angle on the wrong side of the road. Trying my "angle-pushing" method of hill climbing, I heard a faint tapping on the closed window on the side — the normal serving side. I went across and opened the window. A voice said firmly: "Four six-penny ices, please." I stared in surprise. A queue extended backwards across the road, its tail lost to view in the driving snow. My customers, adults as well as children, had seen me from their houses and had come out, still in sweaters and slippers, with no extra protection against the snow. That afternoon I did more trade stuck there than when I stopped at the proper stopping places.
A former driver, one of my customers, told me another sales theory in bad weather. He said rain or snow kept them from their usual Sunday afternoon walk to their nearest shop; ice-cream available outside homes was an admirable and easy substitute.

单选题 The author was most probably ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推理题。四个选项的含义为：[A]售冰人；[B]一个读高中；[C]大学生；[D]有经验的司机。文章第一段中提到“I had to sell ice-cream in winter because I had to pay the school fees which was due next month.”，冬天，我得去卖冰淇淋，我下个月得付学费了，从“付学费”可知，作者可能是一名大学生，因此，[C]正确。

单选题 What would the author usually do on Sunday mornings before he worked as an ice-cream man?

单选题 Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】细节题。文章第二段中提到“at the same time try to remember my route and stopping places.”，作者需努力记住返回路线和停靠点，[C]选项的表述与此相反，因此，应选择[C]。[A]选项的内容在第二段的最后一句话提到“Until the late afternoon I had very few customers.”；[B]选项与第三段“The first time, fortunately, I had with me an experienced senior inspector who showed me how to get up a hill in deep snow.”的内容吻合；[D]选项的表述与第二段中“to remember my route and stopping places.”一致。

单选题 The second time when the author was caught by a snowstorm, he succeeded in selling ice-cream to ______.

单选题 Most likely the chief reason why people were eager to buy ice-cream from the author in a snowstorm was that ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】推理题。由最后一段中“…rain or snow kept them from their usual Sunday afternoon walk to their nearest shop; ice-cream available outside homes was an admirable and easy substitute.”可知，在恶劣的天气里，人们出门不方便，送到家门口的冰淇淋正好是很好的替代品。因此，[C]正确。[B]表示只有这一种选择，太绝对，而且这和常识是不相符的，既然有冰淇淋卖，应该还有许多其他商品卖。