I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The advertisement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theatre was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday. I stood at the bus stop for 15 minutes waiting for the bus, By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip. So I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again next day. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly 20 minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office, I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line. I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi, it was expensive, but I felt it would be worth it to hear the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, however, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.

41．The man learned           that there would be a concert last Friday.

       A．from his friends                                   B．from one of his work-mates

       C．over the radio                                      D．from the newspaper

42．He tried to go to the theatre every day but managed to get there only _______.

       A．once                  B．twice                  C．three times          D．four times

43．One day the man took _______ to get to the theatre by bus.

       A．forty-five minutes                                 B．fifteen minutes

       C．just twenty minutes                              D．over an hour

44．The underlined word “relieved” may best be replaced by ___________.

       A．surprised             B．pleased                C．puzzled               D．sorry

“Stop that man!” Vernon shouted. “He has a bomb!” Everywhere, passengers were   21   there feet and screaming. Guerrero stopped with his   22   to the toilets. “  23   away from me!” he shouted.

“Guerrero, listen to me!” Vernon   24   him over the heads of the others. There was a silence as Guerrero   25   back at him.

“We know who you are,” Vernon went on. “And we know   26   you’re trying to do. We know all about the insurance(保險) and the bomb. That   27   that the insurance is no   28  . Do you understand? It’s worth nothing. If you die you’ll die for nothing and your family will get nothing.   29   than that, they’ll be blamed and made to   30  . Think of that, Guerrero.”

Guerrero hesitated. Vernon kept talking and hoped that Guerrero would   31   him.

“…”

A man came out of one of the   32   behind Guerrero. At the   33   of the door opening, he   34  .

“Get the guy with the case! He’s got a bomb!” somebody shouted.

Guerrero   35   past the man and ran into the toilet. He had not really understood   36   that had happened in the last few minutes, but he understood that,   37   so many things in his life, his great plan had   38  . His life had been a failure, and now his   39   would be a failure be a failure too.

As he pulled the string(導火索), he wondered   40   whether the bomb would be another failure. In the last second of his life he learned that it was not.

What do you think of this piece of wood? I’m sure it __________ a very good shelf.

       A．will make            B．is making             C．is made               D．can be made

____________, and you will succeed.

       A．Making more efforts                            B．More efforts

       C．To make more efforts                          D．If you make more efforts

Animals have died ___________ coming into contact with this chemical.

       A．a(chǎn)s a consequence of                             B．in return for

       C．in the name of                                     D．in spite of

As explained in the introduction, the bottle needs only __________ clean.

       A．to wash               B．washing              C．being washed       D．to be washed

He took possession of New Zealand _______ the British Crown.

       A．to the name of                                     B．in the name of

       C．under the name of                                D．of the name of

It is thought _______ 60 million people on the Net, connected up to over 15 million computers.

       A．to be        B．there could be        C．to have                D．there to be

For many weeks we had been _______ horses and oxen _______ heat, thirst and starvation.

A．a(chǎn)ccustomed to see, suffered                 B．a(chǎn)ccustomed to seeing, suffered

C．a(chǎn)ccustomed to see, suffering                D．a(chǎn)ccustomed to seeing, suffering

－You haven’t lost your ticket, have you?

－I hope _________.

       A．not to have          B．to have not          C．so                       D．not