When I was at university,  I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library. Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss the coin. In that way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.” The next day, Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left half an hour before the rest of us. The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor.
“Oh good,” he said, “Have you got the results of the test?”
The professor looked at him and smiled.
“Ah, it’s you, Baines, just a minute.”
Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
“I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”
小題1: Fred often went to the Students’ Union where he ________ .
A．worked extra hours B．enjoyed himself in the bar
C．borrowed books D．a(chǎn)ttended a few lectures
小題2:This time Fred expected to get ________ .
A．a(chǎn)n excellent mark B．a(chǎn) low mark C．his usual mark D．the pass mark
小題3:The chemistry professor ________ .
A．didn’t mark the test papers correctly
B．tossed a coin when he marked test papers
C．knew about Fred’s method
D．thought Fred’s method was good
小題4:According to the text, we can know working hard is ________ .
A．unnecessary B．valuableC．useless D．a(chǎn) waste

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:B

試題分析：
小題1:B 推理題。根據(jù)第一段第三行He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library.說明他在那里玩的很開心，故B正確。
小題2:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段倒數(shù)第4行. In that way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.說明這次他希望自己能得到通過考試的分數(shù)，故D正確。
小題3:C 推理題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin.說明老師已經(jīng)知道他用硬幣來決定答案的事情，故也用硬幣來決定他是否能通過考試。故C正確。
小題4:B 推理題。文章中的這個故事告訴我們投機取巧是不能取得成功的，只有腳踏實地的努力才可以得到成功的喜悅，故努力工作對我們很重要，B正確。
點評：文章中的這個故事告訴我們投機取巧是不能取得成功的，只有腳踏實地的努力才可以得到成功的喜悅，故努力工作對我們很重要。本文考查較為全面，要求考生對文章有全局的把握，考查推理題較多，需要結合上下文提供的語境和信息進行簡單的概括和判斷。
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