Henry's job was to examine people who crossed the frontier (边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling (走私) anything into the country. Every evening except at weekends, he would see a(n)
___ coming up the hill towards the frontier, __ a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle_
_ the frontier, Henry used to __ the man and order him to take the straw off and _
__ it. Then he would examine the straw very __
_ to see whether he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets before letting him tie the straw
__. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Henry was always __ to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he
___ found anything, even though he examined it very carefully. He was
___that the man was smuggling _
_, but he was not able to imagine __ it could be.
Then one evening, after he had__ the straw and emptied the factory worker's__ as usual, he said to him, “___ I know that you are smuggling things __ this frontier. Won't you tell me what you're bringing into the country so successfully? I'm sixty years old now, and today is my last day on the _
_ . Tomorrow I'm going to retire. I promise that I shall not tell anyone __ you tell me what you've been smuggling." The factory worker did not say anything _
__ . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quietly, “ _
_ .”
| 小题1: | | A．officer | B．driver | C．worker | D．soldier |
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| 小题2: | | A．pulling | B．pushing | C．filling | D．carrying |
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| 小题3: | | A．reached | B．left | C．faced | D．formed |
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| 小题4: | | A．stop | B．greet | C．praise | D．beat |
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| 小题5: | | A．show | B．load | C．light | D．untie |
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| 小题6: | | A．carefully | B．carelessly | C．angrily | D．quickly |
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| 小题7: | | A．once | B．again | C．yet | D．instead |
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| 小题8: | | A．pretending | B．believing | C．expecting | D．asking |
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| 小题9: | | A．ever | B．often | C．always | D．never |
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| 小题10: | | A．curious | B．sure | C．clever | D．known |
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| 小题11: | | A．anything | B．nothing | C．everything | D．something |
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| 小题13: | | A．looked after | B．looked through | C．looked for | D．looked out |
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| 小题14: | | A．pockets | B．clothes | C．socks | D．shoes |
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| 小题16: | | A．past | B．from | C．through | D．across |
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| 小题17: | | A．job | B．mountain | C．edge | D．road |
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| 小题18: | | A．as | B．if | C．before | D．whether |
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| 小题19: | | A．at the moment | B．after all | C．for a moment | D．at all |
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| 小题20: | | A．Straw | B．Money | C．Cars | D．Bicycles |
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