Here are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!
John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadn’t done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lee’s body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadn’t killed the woman, and he believed it was the "hand of God" that had saved him from death by hanging.
The police in Venezuela (委內(nèi)瑞拉)in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥倫比亞). Venezuela’s neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律師). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the man’s crime (罪行)was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.
小題1:The underlined（下劃線) word "hanged" in this passage probably means _.
A．shut in a room »
B．questioned by the police
C．killed by putting a rope around the neck
D．kept in a place
小題2: What do we1 know about the door in the floor?
A．It had opened the day before the hanging.
B．It had been broken a long time.
C．After three times, it opened.
D．John Lee’s dead body fell through it.
小題3:From the story we know that the thief’s bedroom was____.
A. in Venezuela B. in Colombia
C. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia I), in both Venezuela and Colombia
小題4:Why didn’t the Venezuelan police go into the man’s bedroom?
A．They didn’t know where it was.
B．The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia.
C．The police in Colombia told them that (hey would help.
D．The police in Colombia told them not to go inside.
小題5: The police in Colombia didn’t help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief because
A．they didn’t know where he was
B．the police in Venezuela didn’t ask for help
C．the man’s lawyer told them not to help
D．the man’s crime was not a crime in Colombia

小題1:C
小題1:A
小題1:B
小題1:B
小題1:D

小題1:猜測詞義。根據(jù)第二段最后一行from death by hanging可知，John Lee因有殺人嫌疑而被判絞刑。hang的過去分詞有兩種，hung意為“懸掛”；hanged意為“絞刑”。故選C。
小題1:根據(jù)第二段第六行even though it had worked well the day before可知，前天，門完好無損。故選A。
小題1:根據(jù)第三段地四行the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia可知，小偷的臥室在哥倫比亞。故選B。
小題1:根據(jù)第三段第四行The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom可知，委內(nèi)瑞拉的警察不能進入哥倫比亞。故選B。
小題1:根據(jù)第三段倒數(shù)第三行because the man’s crime was not a crime in Colombia可知，因為小偷不是在哥倫比亞犯罪的，因此哥倫比亞的警察拒絕幫忙找那個小偷。故選D。
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