PartⅢ Reading Comprehension(45 minutes，25 points)
Directions：There are 5 passages in this part.Each passage is followed by 5 questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the best
one and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your
machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
Passage One
The job was done，and it was time for a last cigarette.Eddie began tapping the pockets of his
overalls,looking for the new packet of Marlboro he had bought that morning.It was not there.
It Was as he swung around tO look in his toolbox for the cigarettes that Eddie saw the lump.
Right in the middle of the brand new bright red carpet，there Was a lump.A lump the size of a
packet of cigarettes.
“I’ve done it again!”said Eddie allgrily.“I’ve left the cigarettes under the carpet!”
He had done this once before，and taking up and refitting the carpet had taken him two hours
.Eddie was determined that he was not going tO spend another tWO hours in this house.He decided
to get rid of the lump another way.It would mean wasting a good packet of cigarettes，nearly full,
but anything was better than taking up the whole carpet and fitting it again.He turned to his toolbox
for a large hammer.
Eddie didn’t want to damage the carpet itself,so he took a block of wood and placed it on top
of the lump Then he began to beat the block of wood as hard as he could.He kept beating，hoping
Mrs.Vanbrugh wouldn’t hear the noise and come to see what he was doing.It would be difficult to
explain why he was hammering the middle of her beautiful new carpet
