复合题

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

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Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains. Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed, where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore. In any case, what would we have gained by landing? The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way. So we stayed in the boat, hoping that when we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.

We lived on fish, caught with a home-made net of string (we had no hooks), and any fruit and nuts we could pick up out of the water. As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw. I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience: perhaps sea-fish which do not live in the mud are less tasteless After eating my raw fish, I lay back and dreamed of such thing as fried chicken and rice, and ice-cream. In the never ending damp heat of the jungle, ice-cream was a particularly frequent dream.

As for water, there was a choice: we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst. We drank the water. Men who have just escaped what had appeared to be certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water. In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result.

One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us. We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time: we might not be so lucky as to escape in a stolen boat again. 

单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that they had been in_____.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】推测题。 根据文章整体描述， 作者所处的环境是大片的森林和灌木丛， 到处有各种危险的动物， 没有水和食物。 由此推知， 作者应该是在原始的丛林中。
单选题 According to the passage, they would NOT go ashore where_____.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】细节题。 由文章第一段第二句“Nowhere did we…banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore”可知， 是淤泥阻挡了他们的船只上岸。
单选题 What did they do on their boat?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】由文章第一段最后一句和第二段的描述可知， 他们无法靠岸， 只能在船上过夜。 由于没有火， 他们只能生吃从水里捞上来的鱼和其他的一些东西。 答案为D。
单选题 According to the author they_____.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】文章中提到他们靠吃生鱼和果子、 坚果为生， 但是以前从未吃过也不喜欢吃生鱼， 排除B、 C。 文章第三段最后一句说明， 对死里逃生的人来说， 他们丝毫不担心喝脏水会引起疾病， 排除D。
单选题 Which of the following is True to the author?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】由文章第三段第一句， “As for water, there was a choice: we could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst”可知， 他们只能喝河里的泥水， 否则就会渴死， 因为那是唯一的水源。 B选项错误， 并不是因为他们经历过更糟糕的事情就喝泥水， 而是他们在死里逃生之后就不再考虑脏水可能会引起某些疾病。 他们只是路过某个村子而不是停岸， 为没被人看见感到幸运， 排除D。